73418 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 247 / Thursday, December 27, 2007 / Notices 

Public Hearing—Denial of Request for 

Administrative Hearing: 

Under Section 808.2 of the 

Commission’s Regulation relating to 

administrative appeals, the Commission 

denied a request for an administrative 

hearing concerning the following 

project: Project Sponsor—PPL 

Susquehanna, LLC; Project Facility—

Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, 

Salem Township, Luzerne County, PA. 

(Docket No. 19950301). 

Public Hearing—Extension of 

Emergency Water Withdrawal 

Certificates: 

Emergency water withdrawal 

certificates were extended for the 

following projects: 

1. Project Sponsor and Facility: City 

of Lock Haven, Wayne Township, 

Clinton County, PA. 

2. Project Sponsor and Facility: 

Houtzdale Municipal Authority (Docket 

No. 19950101), Rush Township, Centre 

County, PA. 

Public Hearing—Fee Schedule 

Revision 

The Commission adopted a revised 

project fee schedule that includes 

categorical fee adjustments for inflation 

and the addition of a fee category for 

withdrawals of less than 100,000 gpd 

involving a consumptive use. The 

revised schedule takes effect on January 

1, 2008 and remains in effect until 

December 31, 2008. 

Authority: Public Law 91–575, 84 Stat. 

1509 et seq., 18 CFR Parts 806, 807, and 808. 

Dated: December 13, 2007. 

Thomas W. Beauduy, 

Deputy Director. 

[FR Doc. E7–25112 Filed 12–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Airport Level Designation for 

Newark Liberty International Airport for 

the Summer 2008 Scheduling Season 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 

ACTION: Notice of Schedule 

Coordination. 

SUMMARY: Under this notice, the FAA 

announces that Newark Liberty 

International Airport (EWR) has been 

designated a Level 3 Coordinated 

Airport for the summer 2008 scheduling 

season under the International Air 

Transport Association (IATA) 

Worldwide Scheduling Guidelines. This 

notice supercedes the September 24, 

2007, notice that designated EWR a 

Level 2 Schedules Facilitated Airport. 

72 FR 54317. Based on a recently 

completed capacity analysis, a review of 

last summer’s demand, the projections 

for summer 2008, discussions with 

carriers regarding future schedule plans, 

and the potential for increased 

operations at EWR due to operating 

limits at JFK, the FAA has determined 

that a Level 3 airport declaration is 

warranted. 

The FAA’s primary constraint is 

runway capacity, but the Port Authority 

of New York and New Jersey (Port 

Authority), the airport’s operator, also 

will continue to review proposed 

schedules for gates, facility, customs, 

immigration, or similar groundside 

constraints. The FAA and the Port 

Authority recognize that separate 

coordination process for runway slots 

and gate terminal slots is a burden for 

carriers and, therefore, the process is 

under review in order to facilitate 

communication and reduce the 

administrative workload. IATA will be 

consulted regarding ‘‘best practices’’ in 

use at other coordinated airports. 

EWR delays over the last several years 

have been among the highest in the 

system. Despite a relatively stable 

number of daily air traffic operations, 

the airport is experiencing increased 

congestion and delay partly as a result 

of certain peak hours when demand 

approaches or exceeds the airport’s 

average arrival and departure runway 

throughput. Comparing the period of 

October 2006 through September 2007 

to the same period in the previous year, 

the average daily operations at EWR 

decreased by about one-half percent; the 

average daily arrivals with delays 

greater than one hour increased 18 

percent; and on-time gate arrivals 

within 15 minutes of scheduled time 

decreased from 63.52 percent to 61.72 

percent. On-time departures within 15 

minutes of scheduled time declined 

from 71.95 percent to 69.33 percent. The 

average taxi-out delay remained 28.6 

minutes. 

To determine the airport’s 

throughput, the FAA engaged MITRE’s 

Center for Advanced Aviation System 

Development (CAASD) to review two 

years’ worth of operational data for 

weekdays from September 2006 through 

August 2007. The analysis included 

hourly arrival and departure counts and 

the hourly air traffic control (ATC) 

established rates for those same periods. 

These rates were combined to develop 

an ‘‘adjusted’’ capacity number to reflect 

the airport’s operational capability. This 

method compensates for periods when 

demand during a particular hour was 

below the ATC acceptance rates and 

also accounts for actual operations 

above ATC rates. For the last twelve 

months of the study period, the average 

adjusted capacity was 83 operations per 

hour, down almost five percent from the 

earlier months analyzed. The FAA is 

continuing to review ways to improve 

the airport’s capacity and has been 

engaged in numerous efforts to identify 

and implement changes that would 

improve the efficiency of the ATC 

system. For example, as part of the 

FAA’s New York Aviation Rulemaking 

Committee (ARC), over 77 initiatives 

were identified for the New York City 

area. A number of these initiatives will 

benefit the EWR operations. A full copy 

of the ARC’s report to the Secretary of 

Transpiration is available on the FAA’s 

Web site at http://www.faa.gov. 

The FAA’s review of air carriers’

schedule submissions for summer 2008 

indicated new planned operations in 

peak hours as well as the retiming of 

operations from less congested to more 

congested periods. About 100 new peakday flights were requested. Proposed 

schedules in the afternoon and evening 

period, which were historically high 

during summer 2007, are of the greatest 

concern. These proposed schedules, if 

implemented, would result in a 

significant increase of operations at 

EWR and would exceed the airport’s 

optimal rate for multiple, consecutive 

hours. Delays would increase on an 

exponential basis and would likely 

reach levels that are considered 

unacceptable to passengers, airlines, 

and other customers. 

Under the Level 2 designation, the 

FAA began discussing carriers’

proposed summer 2008 schedules in 

November at the IATA scheduling 

Conference in Toronto, Canada. The 

FAA will grant historic status for foreign 

flag air carrier and domestic air carrier 

operations based on their summer 2007 

flights if requested for summer 2008. 

For new requests, the agency identified 

certain periods that would be beyond 

the airport’s historic throughput and 

scheduled levels and asked for schedule 

adjustments from certain carriers to 

retime operations to other periods of the 

day where capacity is available. In some 

cases, carriers responded by 

withdrawing their new requests for peak 

hour operations. The FAA is continuing 

its effort to retime proposed new 

operation out of peak hours because the 

agency cannot grant the requests 

without causing excessive congestion. 

The FAA plans to finalize summer 

2008 schedules with carriers within the 

next few weeks. Even if the FAA were 

to be fully successful in reaching 

agreement on schedule plans under 

Level 2 for summer 2008, the FAA now 

believes that an IATA Level 3 

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Coordinated Airport designation is 

warranted to ensure there is no 

exceedance of the level of operations the 

FAA will allow for summer 2008. The 

Level 3 status also will set carrier 

expectations for future coordination 

needs and for the need to schedule new 

operations during periods when the 

airport has the available capacity. 

ADDRESSES: Any change to schedule 

information for summer 2008 may be 

submitted by mail to Slot 

Administration Office, AGC–240, Office 

of the Chief Counsel, 800 Independence 

Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591; 

facsimile: 202–267–7277; ARINC: 

DCAYAXD; or by e-mail to: 7-AWAslotadmin@faa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James W. Tegtmeier, Associate Chief 

Counsel for the Air Traffic Organization, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591; telephone 

number: 202–267–3073. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 

19, 2007. 

James W. Whitlow, 

Deputy Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 07–6179 Filed 12–19–07; 1:36 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee Meeting on Transport 

Airplane and Engine Issues 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

public meeting of the FAA’s Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee 

(ARAC) to discuss transport airplane 

and engine (TAE) issues. 

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for 

Wednesday, February 6, 2008, starting 

at 9 am Eastern Standard Time. Arrange 

for oral presentations by January 23, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Boeing, 1200 Wilson Blvd, 

Conference Room 234, Arlington, 

Virginia 22209. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicanor Davidson, Office of 

Rulemaking, ARM–207, FAA, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591, Telephone (202) 

267–5174, FAX (202) 267–5075, or email at nicanor.davidson@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463; 5 U.S.C. app. III), notice is given of 

an ARAC meeting to be held February 

6, 2008. 

The agenda for the meeting is as 

follows: 

• Opening Remarks 

• FAA Report 

• European Aviation Safety Agency 

Report 

• ARAC Executive Committee Report 

• Transport Canada Report 

• Airplane-level Safety Analysis 

Working Group Report 

Æ Closure of Task 2 and Status of 

Task 3 

• Propeller Harmonization Working 

Group (HWG) Report 

• Ice Protection HWG Report 

• Airworthiness Assurance HWG 

Report 

• Avionics HWG Report 

• Any Other Business 

• Action Item Review 

Attendance is open to the public, but 

will be limited to the availability of 

meeting room space. Please confirm 

your attendance with the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section no later than January 

23, 2008. Please provide the following 

information: Full legal name, country of 

citizenship, and name of your industry 

association, or applicable affiliation. If 

you are attending as a public citizen, 

please indicate so. 

For persons participating by 

telephone, the call-in number is (202) 

366–3920; the Passcode is ‘‘6039.’’ To 

insure that sufficient telephone lines are 

available, please notify the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of your intent to 

participate by telephone by January 23, 

2008. Anyone calling from outside the 

Washington, DC metropolitan area will 

be responsible for paying long-distance 

charges. 

The public must make arrangements 

by January 23, 2008, to present oral 

statements at the meeting. Written 

statements may be presented to the 

ARAC at any time by providing 25 

copies to the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

If you need assistance or require a 

reasonable accommodation for the 

meeting or meeting documents, please 

contact the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Sign and oral interpretation, as well as 

a listening device, can be made 

available if requested 10 calendar days 

before the meeting. 

Issued in Washington, DC on December 19, 

2007. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. E7–25020 Filed 12–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement: 

Chautauqua County, NY 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

will be prepared for the proposed 

Millennium Parkway project in 

Chautauqua County, New York, Project 

Identification Number (PIN) 5757.55. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffrey W. Kolb, P.E., Division 

Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration, New York Division, Leo 

W. O’Brien Federal Building, 7th Floor, 

Clinton Avenue and North Pearl Street, 

Albany, New York 12207, Telephone: 

(518) 431–4127; or 

Alan E. Taylor, P.E., Regional 

Director, NYSDOT Region 5; 100 Seneca 

Street, Buffalo NY 14203, Telephone: 

(716) 847–3238; or 

George E. Spanos, P.E., Director, 

CCDPF, 454 North Work Street, 

Falconer, New York 14733, Telephone: 

(716) 661–8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the New 

York State Department of 

Transportation (NYSDOT) and the 

Chautauqua County Department of 

Public Facilities (CCDPF), will prepare 

an EIS on a proposal to construct the 

Millennium Parkway in Chautauqua 

County, New York. 

An industrial corridor, including 

industrial districts located along Werle 

Road, Harrington Road, Progress Drive, 

and County Route (CR) 82 (Middle 

Road), is being developed to provide 

further economic opportunities within 

the surrounding communities. This 

industrial corridor includes the 

Chadwick Bay Industrial Park, located 

to the east of the City of Dunkirk in the 

Town of Sheridan. Although directly 

adjacent to air and rail facilities, tractortrailer truck traffic access to the 

industrial corridor is currently not 

adequate. 

The purpose of the Millennium 

Parkway Project is to improve tractortrailer truck traffic access to the 

industrial corridor, including the 

Chadwick Bay Industrial Park, from 

New York (NY) Route 60 (Bennett 

Road). Objectives to be met with the 

construction of the Millennium Parkway 

are to: Improve tractor-trailer truckoriented infrastructure to the industrial 

corridor; improve vehicular and 

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