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fundamental changes in the Coast

Guard’s OSRO classification process.

The OSRO guidelines replace

Navigation and Vessel Circular (NVIC)

12–92, Guidelines for the Classification

and Inspection of Oil Spill Removal

Organizations. This notice announces

the availability of the revised OSRO

guidelines.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The revised OSRO

guidelines are effective December 28,

1995.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the revised OSRO

guidelines may be obtained by

contacting the National Maritime Center

at (703) 235–0018. Facsimile requests

should be sent to (703) 235–1062 and

written requests should be addressed to:

Publications, National Maritime Center,

4200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 510, Arlington,

VA 22203–1804. The document is also

available through the World Wide Web

at: http://www.starsoftware.com/

uscgnmc/nmc/

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Specific questions regarding the revised

OSRO guidelines should be directed to

LT Terry Hoover, Response Division (G–

MRO), U.S. Coast Guard, 2100 Second

Street SW., Washington, DC, 20593–

0001, telephone (202) 267–0448.

Dated: January 24, 1996.

J. C. Card,

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief, Office

of Marine Safety, Security and Environmental

Protection.

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Federal Aviation Administration

Approval of the Noise Compatibility

Program for Glendale Municipal

Airport, Glendale, Arizona

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) announces its

findings on the Noise Compatibility

Program for the Glendale Municipal

Airport, submitted by the city of

Glendale, Arizona, under the provisions

of Title I of the Aviation Safety and

Noise Abatement Act of 1979 (Public

Law 96–193) (hereinafter referred to as

‘‘the Act’’) and 14 CFR Part 150. These

findings are made in recognition of the

description of Federal and nonfederal

responsibilities in Senate Report No.

96–52 (1980). On July 5, 1994, the FAA

determined that the Noise Exposure

Maps, submitted by the city under 14

CFR Part 150, were in compliance with

applicable requirements. On December

27, 1995, the Associate Administrator

for Airports approved the Noise

Compatibility Program for Glendale

Municipal Airport. All sixteen (16)

proposed noise abatement, land use

management and program management

measures were approved.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date of the

FAA’s approval of the Noise

Compatibility Program for Glendale

Municipal Airport is December 27,

1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David B. Kessler, Environmental

Protection Specialist, Airport Division,

AWP–611.2, Federal Aviation

Administration, Western-Pacific Region.

Mailing address: P.O. Box 92007,

Worldway Postal Center, Los Angeles,

California 90009–2007. Telephone

number: (310) 725–3615. Street address:

15000 Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne,

California 90261. Documents reflecting

this FAA action may be reviewed at this

same location.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice announces that the FAA has

given its overall approval of the Noise

Compatibility Program for Glendale

Municipal Airport, effective December

27, 1995. Under Section 104(a) of the

Aviation Safety and the Noise

Abatement Act of 1979 (hereinafter

referred to as the ‘‘Act’’), an airport

operator who has previously submitted

a Noise Exposure Map may submit to

the FAA a Noise Compatibility Program

which sets forth the measures taken or

proposed by the airport operator for the

reduction of existing noncompatible

land uses and prevention of additional

noncompatible land uses within the

area covered by the Noise Exposure

Maps. The Act requires such programs

to be developed in consultation with

interested and affected parties including

local communities, government

agencies, airport users, and FAA

personnel.

Each airport Noise Compatibility

Program developed in accordance with

Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part

150 is a local program, not a Federal

Program. The FAA does not substitute

its judgment for that of the airport

proprietor with respect to which

measures should be recommended for

action. The FAA’s approval or

disapproval of FAR Part 150 program

recommendations is measured

according to the standards expressed in

Part 150 and the Act, and is limited to

the following determinations:

a. The Noise Compatibility Program

was developed in accordance with the

provisions and procedures of FAR Part

150;

b. Program measures are reasonably

consistent with achieving the goals of

reducing existing noncompatible land

uses around the airport and preventing

the introduction of additional non

compatible land uses;

c. Program measures would not create

an undue burden on interstate or foreign

commerce, unjustly discriminate against

types or classes of aeronautical uses,

violate the terms of airport grant

agreements, or intrude into areas

preempted by the Federal government

and;

d. Program measures relating to the

use of flight procedures can be

implemented within the period covered

by the program without derogating

safety, adversely affecting the efficient

use and management of navigable

airspace and air traffic control

responsibilities of the Administrator

prescribed by law.

Specific limitations with respect to

FAA’s approval of an Airport Noise

Compatibility Program are delineated in

FAR Part 150, Section 150.5. Approval

is not a determination concerning the

acceptability of land uses under Federal,

State or local law. Approval does not, by

itself, constitute an FAA

implementation action. A request for

Federal action or approval to implement

specific Noise Compatibility Measures

may be required and an FAA decision

on the request may require an

environmental assessment of the

proposed action. Approval does not

constitute a commitment by the FAA to

financially assist in the implementation

of the program nor a determination that

all measures covered by the program are

eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the

FAA under the Airport and Airway

Improvement Act of 1982, as amended.

Where Federal funding is sought,

requests for project grants must be

submitted to the FAA Airports Division

Office in Hawthorne, California.

The city of Glendale submitted to the

FAA on May 12, 1994, the noise

exposure maps, descriptions, and other

documentation produced during the

noise compatibility planning study

conducted from October 5, 1993 through

January 12, 1995. The Glendale

Municipal Airport noise exposure maps

were determined by FAA to be in

compliance with applicable

requirements on July 5, 1994. Notice of

this determination was published in the

Federal Register on July 26, 1994.

The Glendale Municipal Airport

study contained a proposed Noise

Compatibility Program comprised of

actions designed for phased

implementation by airport management

and adjacent jurisdictions from the date

of study completion to the year 1999. It
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was requested that the FAA evaluated

and approve this material as a Noise

Compatibility Program as described in

section 104(b) of the Act. The FAA

began its review of the program on June

30, 1995 and was required by a

provision of the Act to approve or

disapprove the program within 180-days

(other than the use of new flight

procedures for noise control). Failure to

approve or disapprove such program

within the 180-day period shall be

deemed an approval of such program.

The submitted program contained

sixteen (16) proposed actions for noise

mitigation on and off the airport. The

FAA completed its review and

determined that the procedural and

substantive requirements of the Act and

FAR Part 150 have been satisfied. The

overall program, therefore, was

approved by the Associate

Administrator for Airports effective

December 27, 1995.

Outright approval was granted for all

sixteen (16) specific program measures.

The approved measures included such

items as encouraging right turns on the

upwind leg of Runway 1 local traffic

pattern; Encourage use of straight-out

VFR departures from Runway 19; Right

turns for VFR departures from Runway

1; establishment of an informal runway

use program; Encourage use of AOPA

and NBAA noise abatement and

departure/arrival procedures; adoption

of noise-sensitive marketing policies;

maintain existing general plan

designations for compatible land uses in

the airport influence area; retain

existing compatible use zoning in the

airport influence area; Encourage the

Flood Control District to include airport

noise impacts in priority setting system

for flood control projects; Discourage

rezoning to higher density residential

zones in unincorporated areas of the

airport influence area; encourage fair

disclosure to future property owners;

through rezoning process, prohibit

homes in the 65 DNL and ‘‘runway

approach areas’’; acquisition of homes

and undeveloped land within the 65

DNL noise contour; maintain a

complaint response system, and review

and update Noise Exposure Maps and

the Noise Compatibility Program as

necessary.

These determinations are set forth in

detail in the Record of Approval

endorsed by the Associate

Administrator for Airports on December

27, 1995. The Record of Approval, as

well as other evaluation materials, and

the documents comprising the submittal

are available for review at the FAA

office listed above and at the

administrative offices of the Glendale

Municipal Airport, Glendale, Arizona.

Issued in Hawthorne, California on January

5, 1996.

Herman C. Bliss,

Manager, Airports Division, AWP–600,

Western-Pacific Region.

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Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

public meeting of the FAA’s Aviation

Rulemaking Advisory Committee to

discuss rotorcraft issues, current

rulemaking actions, and future activities

and plans.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

February 21, 1996, 9 a.m.–12 noon.

Arrange for oral presentations by

February 6, 1996.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Dallas Convention Center, Room

C254, 650 S. Griffin St., Dallas, TX

75202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ms. Barbara Herber, Office of

Rulemaking, Aircraft & Airport Rules

Division, ARM–200, 800 Independence

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591,

telephone (202) 267–3498.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

referenced meeting is announced

pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.

L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. II). The agenda

will include:

1. Presentation of the status reports on

the final rules resulting from the ARAC

recommendations on ‘‘Occupant

Protection’’ Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking (NPRM) 94–8 (59 FR 17156)

and ‘‘Rotorcraft Regulatory Changes

Based on European Joint Airworthiness

Requirements’’ NPRM 94–36 (59 FR

67068).

2. Presentation of the ‘‘Work Plan’’

and the ‘‘Concept Brief’’ for Normal

Category Gross Weight and Passenger

Issues.

3. Presentation of the status reports on

each of the tasks listed below:

a. Harmonization of Miscellaneous

Rotorcraft Regulations.

b. Critical parts.

c. Performance and Handling

Qualities Requirements.

d. Class D External Loads.

Attendance is open to the public but

will be limited to the space available.

The public must make arrangements by

February 6, 1996, to present oral

statements at the meeting. Written

statements may be presented to the

committee at any time by providing 16

copies to the Assistant Chair or by

providing the copies to him at the

meeting. In addition, sign and oral

interpretation, as well as a listening

device, can be made available at the

meeting if requested 10 calendar days

before the meeting. Arrangements may

be made by contacting the person listed

under the heading FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 24,

1996.

Chris A. Christie,

Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking

Advisory Committee.

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RTCA, Inc., Special Committee 185;

Aeronautical Spectrum Planning

Issues

Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L.

92–463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is

hereby given for a Special Committee

185 meeting to be held on February 28–

29, 1996, starting at 9:00 a.m. The

meeting will be held at RTCA, 1140

Connecticut Avenue NW., Suite 1020,

Washington, DC 20036.

The agenda will be as follows: (1)

Administrative Remarks; (2)

Introductions; (3) Review and Approval

of the Agenda; (4) Review and Approval

of the Summary of the Previous

Meeting; (5) Review Draft Version 6 of

SC–185 Report; (6) Develop Conclusions

and Recommendations; (7) Other

Business; (8) Date and Place of Next

Meeting.

Attendance is open to the interested

public but limited to space availability.

With the approval of the chairman,

members of the public may present oral

statements at the meeting. Persons

wishing to present statements or obtain

information should contact the RTCA

Secretariat, 1140 Connecticut Avenue

NW., Suite 1020, Washington, DC

20036; (202) 833–9339 (phone) or (202)

833–9434 (fax). Members of the public

may present a written statement to the

committee at any time.

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 23,

1996.

Janice L. Peters,

Designated Official.

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