Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 176 / Tuesday, September 13, 2005 / Notices 54099 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 [79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459], Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 [112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.], Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999 [64 FR 56014], 

Delegation of Authority No. 236 of 

October 19, 1999 [64 FR 57920], as 

amended, and Delegation of Authority 

No. 257 of April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], 

I hereby determine that the object to be 

included in the exhibition, ‘‘Ewer,’’

imported from abroad for temporary 

exhibition within the United States, is 

of cultural significance. The object is 

imported pursuant to a loan agreement 

with the foreign lender. I also determine 

that the exhibition or display of the 

exhibit object at the Metropolitan 

Museum of Art, New York, New York, 

from on or about September 30, 2005, to 

on or about September 30, 2006, and at 

possible additional venues yet to be 

determined, is in the national interest. 

Public Notice of these determinations is 

ordered to be published in the Federal 

Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, contact Paul W. 

Manning, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, (202) 453–8052, and 

the address is United States Department 

of State, SA–44, Room 700, 301 4th 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20547–

0001. 

Dated: September 7, 2005. 

C. Miller Crouch, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. 05–18109 Filed 9–12–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Availability of Changes to Advisory 

Circular 27–1B, Certification of Normal 

Category Rotorcraft, and Advisory 

Circular 29–2C, Certification of 

Transport Category Rotorcraft 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

Advisory Circular (AC) changes. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of changes to AC 27–1B, 

Certification of Normal Category 

Rotorcraft, and AC 29–2C, Certification 

of Transport Category Rotorcraft for AC 

paragraphs 27.351 and AC 29.351B, 

Yawing Conditions. These AC 

paragraphs are final and replace the 

existing AC paragraphs dated 9/30/99. 

These AC paragraphs will be included 

in the upcoming Change 2 update. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy L. Jones, Regulations Group, 

FAA, Rotorcraft Directorate, Aircraft 

Certification Service, Fort Worth, TX 

76193–0111; telephone (817) 222–5359; 

fax (817) 222–5961; e-mail: http:// 

www.Kathy.L.Jones@FAA.GOV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces the availability of AC 

changes. You can get electronic copies 

of these changes from the FAA by 

logging on to http//www.faa.gov/ 

aircraft/draft_docs/. If you do not have 

access to the Internet, you may request 

a copy by contacting the person named 

under the caption FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on September 

2, 2005. 

David A. Downey, 

Manager, Rotorcraft Directorate, Aircraft 

Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 05–18152 Filed 9–12–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Noise Exposure Map Notice 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

determination that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by the City of Dayton 

for the Dayton 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. 

DATES: The effective date of the FAA’s 

determination on the noise exposure 

maps is August 29, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Brad Davidson, Detroit Airports District 

Office, 11677 South Wayne Road, Suite 

107, Romulus, Michigan 48174, (734) 

229–2900. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA finds 

that the noise exposure maps submitted 

for Dayton International Airport are in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements of part 150, effective 

August 29, 2005. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 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, 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 FAA to be in compliance with 

the requirements of Federal Aviation 

Regulations (FAR) 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 noncompatible uses and prevent the 

introduction of additional noncompatible uses. 

The FAA has completed its review of 

the noise exposure maps and 

accompanying documentation 

submitted by the City of Dayton. The 

documentation that constitutes the 

‘‘noise exposure maps’’ as defined in 

§ 150.7 of part 150 includes: Noise 

Exposure Map Existing Conditions 

(2004) (volume 3, exhibit V–1) and 

Noise Exposure Map Future (2009) 

Baseline (volume 3, exhibit V–2). The 

FAA has determined that these noise 

exposure maps and accompanying 

documentation are in compliance with 

applicable requirements. This 

determination is effective on August 29, 

2005. 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 

FAR 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 

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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 agencies 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 of FAR part 150, 

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 Detroit 

Airports District Office 11677 South 

Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, 

Michigan 48174. 

City of Dayton Department of Aviation, 

3600 Terminal Drive, Suite 300, 

Vandalia, Ohio 45377. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Romulus, Michigan on August 

29, 2005. 

Irene R. Porter, 

Manager, Detroit Airport District Office, Great 

Lakes Region. 

[FR Doc. 05–18151 Filed 9–12–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Financing Reauthorization 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The current taxes and fees 

paid into the Aviation Trust Fund, 

which provide funding for the National 

Aviation System, are only authorized 

through September 30, 2007. Since there 

is only a small and declining balance in 

the Trust Fund, it is critical that the 

financing not be allowed to lapse. The 

new financing structure should generate 

stable and predictable revenue, 

maintain the appropriate levels of 

service, and enable FAA to make longterm investments and tie revenues 

raised for the system to the 

infrastructure and operational costs of 

the system. The FAA has developed a 

series of data packages in examining 

FAA costs, paid for through the Trust 

Fund, from a managerial reporting 

standpoint. These packages will 

advance everyone’s understanding of 

FAA costs and what the Agency faces as 

it considers a range of future funding 

options. They are available at http:// 

www.faa.gov/about/office_org/

headquarters_offices/aep/aatf/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert E. Robeson, Manager, Systems 

and Policy Analysis Division, Office of 

Aviation Policy and Plans, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background 

In April 2005, the FAA hosted a Trust 

Fund Forum with major aviation 

stakeholders. A variety of ideas on 

options to fund the FAA were 

discussed. At the Trust Fund Forum, 

FAA began the dialogue on the need to 

reauthorize the Airport and Airway 

Trust Fund. The current taxes and fees 

are only authorized through September 

30, 2007 and since there is only a small 

and declining balance in the Trust 

Fund, it is critical that financing not be 

allowed to lapse. 

The new financing structure should 

generate stable and predictable revenue, 

maintain the appropriate levels of 

service, and enable the FAA to make 

long-term investments not only in 

modernization but also in the Next 

Generation Air Transportation System. 

The funding mechanism chosen should 

tie revenues raised for the system to the 

infrastructure and operational costs of 

the system. It should also create 

incentives for the FAA to become 

increasingly productive. 

The FAA spent the last several 

months analyzing cost and activity data 

as well as funding options. While this 

analytical work has reached a fairly 

mature level, it is expected to continue 

through the fall. FAA is examining the 

contributions of various stakeholder 

groups to the Trust Fund under the 

current tax structure, as well as the 

impact of different funding mechanisms 

on the FAA, the flying public, and those 

stakeholder groups. 

One major component of this work is 

an ongoing study that would allocate 

FAA’s air traffic control costs to users of 

the system. This ongoing study uses cost 

accounting data from fiscal year 2004, 

which is the best available data at this 

time. While the FAA’s cost accounting 

system will provide detailed source data 

in this effort, fiscal year 2004 cost 

reports apply allocation rules to this 

data to produce managerial reports so 

that ATO management can understand 

costs at the national and facility levels. 

It is important to note that the cost 

accounting system continues to 

improve, so that fiscal year 2006 

managerial reports will be based on 

more refined allocations. Another set of 

allocation rules would be required to 

support analysis to determine the most 

viable proposal to fund the system. In 

developing these allocation rules, the 

FAA seeks stakeholder input in order to 

fully consider principles such as 

marginal system use, use of congested 

space and scarce resources, aircraft 

weight, distance, and other criteria. The 

allocation rules, of course, must be 

applied with transparency and would 

need to be validated by the user 

community. 

In addition, the FAA’s Safety and 

Airports organizations have identified 

areas where services can be matched to 

the revenue needed for those programs. 

Because the FAA cost accounting 

system will not deliver such reports for 

these organizations until the middle of 

2006, the FAA will use data from its 

Labor Distribution Reporting system, 

annual budgets, and grants issued to 

help develop options for future funding 

in the meantime. 

The Administration’s intention is to 

develop a proposal that has stakeholder 

support. On September 6, 2005, the 

FAA Administrator sent a package to 

key stakeholders. Besides a cover letter 

that contained the information 

summarized above, the package also 

contains questions for stakeholders and 

the data packages developed to use in 

examining FAA costs from a managerial 

reporting standpoint. These packages 

will advance the understanding of FAA 

costs and what the Agency faces as it 

considers a range of future funding 

options. 

The stakeholder package available on 

the FAA’s Web site contains data 

packages on the Air Traffic Organization 

including technical background and 

supporting detail, Airports, Aviation 

Safety, and International Aviation. Also 

included are questions regarding: 

1. Providing the Right Types of ATC 

Services. 

2. Revisions to Current Tax System. 

3. Other Funding Alternatives for Cost 

Recovery of ATC Services and Cost 

Allocation. 

4. General Fund Questions. 

5. Airport Related Issues. 

6. Charging for Certification and Other 

FAA Services. 

7. Lessons Learned from Other 

Countries.