[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 4, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 26388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09568]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Noise Exposure Maps Notice for Piedmont Triad International 
Airport, Greensboro, North Carolina

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The FAA announces its determination that the noise exposure 
maps submitted by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority for the Piedmont 
Triad International Airport are in compliance with applicable 
requirements.

APPLICABLE DATE:  The effective date of the FAA's determination on the 
noise exposure maps is April 27, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Memphis Airports District Office, 
Tommy Dupree, Manager, Federal Aviation Administration, 2600 Thousand 
Oaks Blvd., Suite 2250, Memphis, Tennessee 38118, Telephone: (901) 322-
8181.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA finds 
that the noise exposure maps submitted for the Piedmont Triad 
International Airport under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 47501 et seq. 
(Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act) and 14 CFR part 150 are in 
compliance with applicable requirements of 14 CFR part 150, effective 
January 13, 2004.
    Under 49 U.S.C. Section 47503 of the Aviation Safety and Noise 
Abatement Act (hereinafter referred to as ``the Act''), an airport 
operator may submit to the FAA noise exposure maps which meet 
applicable regulations and which depict non-compatible land uses as of 
the date of submission of such maps, a description of projected 
aircraft operations during a forecast period that is at least five (5) 
years in the future, and the ways in which such operations will affect 
such maps. The Act requires such maps to be developed in consultation 
with interested and affected parties in the local community, government 
agencies, and persons using the airport. An airport operator who has 
submitted noise exposure maps that are found by the FAA to be in 
compliance with the requirements of 14 CFR part 150, promulgated 
pursuant to the Act, may submit a noise compatibility program for FAA 
approval which sets forth the measures the operator has taken or 
proposes to take to reduce existing non-compatible uses and prevent the 
introduction of additional non-compatible uses.
    The FAA has completed its review of the noise exposure maps and 
accompanying documentation submitted by the Piedmont Triad Airport 
Authority. The documentation that constitutes the ``Noise Exposure 
Maps'' (NEM) as defined in Section 150.7 includes a 2020 Base Year NEM, 
Figure 7-1, and a 2025 Future Year NEM, Figure 7-2, located in Chapter 
7 of the report. The figures contained within Chapter 7 are scaled to 
fit within the report context; however, the official, to scale, 2020 
Base Year NEM and 2025 Future Year NEM are an attachment to the 
official report.
    The Noise Exposure Maps contain current and forecast information 
including the depiction of the airport and its boundaries, the runway 
configurations, land uses such as single and two-family residential; 
multi-family residential; mixed residential and commercial; commercial 
and office; industrial and manufacturing; transportation, parking and 
utilities; public facilities and institutions; unclassified; open 
space, cemetaries, and outdoor recreation; vacant land; places of 
worship; schools; historic structures; hospitals; and day care/assisted 
living facilities and those areas within the Day Night Average Sound 
Level (DNL) 65, 70 and 75 noise contours. Estimates of the residential 
population within the 2020 Base Year and 2025 Future Year noise 
contours are shown in Table 7-1 of Chapter 7 of the report. Figure 5-1 
in Chapter 5 displays the location of noise monitoring sites. Flight 
track maps are provided in Figures 6-6 through 6-8 of Chapter 6. The 
type and frequency of aircraft operations, including nighttime 
operations and engine runups, are found in Tables 6-7 through 6-15 in 
Chapter 6.
    As discussed in Chapter 9 of the report, the Piedmont Triad Airport 
Authority provided the general public the opportunity to review and 
comment on the NEMs. This public comment period opened on November 17, 
2020 and closed on December 17, 2020. A public workshop was held on 
June 27, 2019 on the Part 150 process. A public workshop and hearing 
for the NEMs was held on December 8, 2020. All comments received during 
the public comment period and throughout the development of the NEMs, 
as well as responses to these comments, are contained in Appendix G of 
the report.
    The FAA has determined that these noise exposure maps and 
accompanying documentation are in compliance with applicable 
requirements. This determination is effective on April 27, 2022.
    FAA's determination on an airport operator's noise exposure maps is 
limited to a finding that the maps were developed in accordance with 
the procedures contained in Appendix A of 14 CFR part 150. Such 
determination does not constitute approval of the applicant's data, 
information or plans, or a commitment to approve a noise compatibility 
program or to fund the implementation of that program. If questions 
arise concerning the precise relationship of specific properties to 
noise exposure contours depicted on a noise exposure map submitted 
under Section 47503 of the Act, it should be noted that the FAA is not 
involved in any way in determining the relative locations of specific 
properties with regard to the depicted noise contours, or in 
interpreting the noise exposure maps to resolve questions concerning, 
for example, which properties should be covered by the provisions of 
Section 47506 of the Act. These functions are inseparable from the 
ultimate land use control and planning responsibilities of local 
government. These local responsibilities are not changed in any way 
under Part 150 or through FAA's review of noise exposure maps. 
Therefore, the responsibility for the detailed overlaying of noise 
exposure contours onto the map depicting properties on the surface 
rests exclusively with the airport operator that submitted those maps, 
or with those public agencies and planning authorities with which 
consultation is required under Section 47503 of the Act. The FAA has 
relied on the certification by the airport operator, under Section 
150.21, that the statutorily required consultation has been 
accomplished.
    Copies of the full noise exposure map documentation and of the 
FAA's evaluation of the maps are available for examination at the 
following locations: Federal Aviation Administration, Memphis Airports 
District Office, 2600 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Memphis, Tennessee 38118, 
and Piedmont Triad International Airport, 1000A Ted Johnson Parkway, 
Greensboro, North Carolina 27409.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tommy Dupree, Manager, Memphis 
Airports District Office, Federal Aviation Administration, 2600 
Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 2250, Memphis, TN 38118, Telephone: (901) 
322-8181.

    Issued in Memphis, TN, on April 27, 2022.
Tommy L. Dupree,
Manager, Memphis Airports District Office.
[FR Doc. 2022-09568 Filed 5-3-22; 8:45 am]
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