46346 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 1, 

2008. 

Susan J. M. Cabler, 

Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering 

Division, Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–18133 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Approval of Noise Compatibility 

Program for Fresno-Yosemite 

International Airport, Fresno, CA 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT 

ACTION: Notice 

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

findings on the noise compatibility 

program submitted by the City of 

Fresno, California under the provisions 

of 49 U.S.C. (the Aviation Safety and 

Noise Abatement Act, 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 

6, 2005 (70 FR 50437–50438), the FAA 

determined that the noise exposure 

maps submitted by the city of Fresno 

under Part 150 were in compliance with 

applicable requirements. On July 28, 

2008, the FAA approved the FresnoYosemite International Airport noise 

compatibility program. All of the 

recommendations of the program were 

approved. No program elements relating 

to new or revised flight procedures for 

noise abatement were proposed by the 

airport operator. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the FAA’s approval of the Fresno 

Yosemite International Airport noise 

compatibility program is July 28, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David B. Kessler, AICP, Regional 

Environmental Protection Specialist, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Western Pacific Region, Mailing 

address: P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, 

CA 90009–2007. Street Address: 15000 

Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne, 

California 90261. Telephone 310/725–

3615. 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 to the Noise 

Compatibility Program for FresnoYosemite International Airport, effective 

July 28, 2008. 

Under section 47504 of 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 

non-compatible land uses and 

prevention of additional non-compatible 

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 FM 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 14 CFR 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 non-compatible land 

uses around the airport and preventing 

the introduction of additional noncompatible 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 the navigable 

airspace and air traffic control systems, 

or adversely affecting other powers and 

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 implementing 

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 District 

Office in Burlingame, California. 

The City of Fresno submitted to the 

FAA on April 20, 2005, the Noise 

Exposure Maps, descriptions, and other 

documentation produced during the 

noise compatibility planning study 

conducted from October 2002 through 

June 2006. The Fresno-Yosemite 

International Airport Noise Exposure 

Maps were determined by FAA to be in 

compliance with applicable 

requirements on July 6, 2005. Notice of 

this determination was published in the 

Federal Register on August 26, 2005 (70 

FR 50437–50438). 

The Fresno-Yosemite International 

Airport study contains a proposed noise 

compatibility program comprised of 

actions designed for phased 

implementation by airport management 

and adjacent jurisdictions from (2004 to 

beyond the year 2009). It was requested 

that the FAA evaluate and approve this 

material as a Noise Compatibility 

Program as described in 49 U.S.C. 

§ 47504 of the Act. The City of Fresno 

initially submitted its noise 

compatibility program for the subject 

airport to the FAA on May 26, 2006 (71 

FR 33032–33033). In a letter received by 

FAA on September 15, 2006, the City of 

Fresno requested that FAA suspend its 

review and processing of the noise 

compatibility program in order to 

modify the document. FAA terminated 

its formal review of the City of Fresno’s 

noise compatibility program effective 

September 15, 2006 (71 FR 56582). 

Subsequently, the City of Fresno 

submitted their revised noise 

compatibility program to FAA. 

Therefore, the FAA has formally 

received the noise compatibility 

program for FAT, effective on April 18, 

2008. The FAA began its review of the 

program on April 18, 2008, and was 

required by a provision of the Act to 

approve or disapprove the program 

within 180 days (other than the use of 

new or modified flight procedures for 

noise control). Failure to approve or 

disapprove such program within the 

180-day period shall be deemed to be an 

approval of such program. 


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The submitted program contained 

twenty-five (25) proposed actions for 

noise abatement, land use management 

and program management 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 was approved, by the 

Manager of the Airports Division, 

Western-Pacific Region, effective July 

28, 2008. 

Outright approval was granted for the 

two (2) noise abatement measures, all 

fourteen (14) land use management 

measures and nine (9) program 

management measures. The approved 

noise abatement measures included: 

Maintain CANG Noise Abatement 

Departure Track Procedures; and 

Continued Use of Minimum Altitudes 

Before Departure Turns Off Runways 

29L and 29R. 

Approved land use measures include: 

Land Acquisition of Developed NonCompatible Property; Residential Sound 

Insulation Program; Noise Sensitive 

Public Building Sound Insulation 

Program; Purchase of Avigation 

Easements; Encourage Comprehensive 

Planning for Compatible Land Uses and 

Adoption of NEMs; Amend Zoning for 

Compatible Use; Adopt Airport Noise 

Overlay Zone; Amend Building Codes to 

Meet Interior Noise Levels; Require 

Avigation Easement with New 

Construction; Support Real Property 

Noise Disclosure; Transfer of 

Development Rights; Purchase of 

Development Rights; Purchase of Vacant 

Land That May Be Developed Into 

NonCompatible Use; Encourage the 

Local Jurisdictions to Develop 

Compatible Land Uses in the Airport 

Environs. 

Approved Program Management 

measures include: Monitor Airport 

Operations to Determine Need for NEM 

and/or NCP Updates; Acquire a Flight 

Tracking System and/or Noise and 

Operations Monitoring System (NOMS); 

Monitor Aircraft Engine Run-ups and 

Complaints as a Trigger for a Future 

Ground Run-up Enclosure (GRE) 

Replacement Needs Analysis Study; 

Establish Staff Position to Monitor and 

Coordinate Implementation of the NCP 

Measures; Increase Community 

Outreach; Expand Airport Noise Section 

on the FAT Website; Develop 

Standardize Complaint Collection, 

Response, and Recording Procedures; 

Establish an Airport Noise Advisory 

Committee; Develop and Distribute Pilot 

Handouts. 

These determinations are set forth, in 

detail, in the Record of Approval signed 

by the Manager of the Airports Division, 

Western-Pacific Region, on July 28, 

2008. 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 City of 

Fresno. The Record of Approval will be 

available on-line at: http://www.faa.gov/ 

airports_airtraffic/airports/ 

environmental/airport_noise/ part_150/ 

states/. 

Issued in Hawthorne, California on July 29, 

2008. 

Mark A. McClardy 

Manager, Airports Division, Western-Pacific 

Region, AWP–600 

[FR Doc. E8–18086 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Passenger Facility Charge 

(PFC) Approvals and Disapprovals. 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Monthly Notice of PFC 

Approvals and Disapprovals. In July 

2008, there were three applications 

approved. This notice also includes 

information on two applications, 

approved in June 2008, inadvertently 

left off the June 2008 notice. 

Additionally, 20 approved amendments 

to previously approved applications are 

listed. 

SUMMARY: The FAA publishes a monthly 

notice, as appropriate, of PFC approvals 

and disapprovals under the provisions 

of the Aviation Safety and Capacity 

Expansion Act of 1990 (Title IX of the 

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 

1990) (Pub. L. 101–508) and Part 158 of 

the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 

CFR Part 158). This notice is published 

pursuant to paragraph d of § 158.29. 

PFC Applications Approved 

Public Agency: San Diego County 

Regional Airport Authority, San Diego, 

California. 

Application Number: 08–05–C–00–

SAN. APPLICATION TYPE: Impose and 

use a PFC. 

PFC Level: $4.50. 

Total PFC Revenue Approved in This 

Decision: $26,301,763. 

Earliest Charge Effective Date: April 1, 

2009. 

Estimated Charge Expiration Date: 

October 1, 2009. 

Class of Air Carriers Not Required to 

Collect PFC’s: Non-scheduled/ondemand air carriers filing FAA Form 

1800–31. 

Determination: Approved. Based on 

information contained in the public 

agency’s application, the FAA has 

determined that the proposed class 

accounts for less than 1 percent of the 

total annual enplanements at San Diego 

International Airport. 

Brief Description of Projects Approved 

for Collection and Use at a $4.50 PFC 

Level: Security checkpoint 

improvements. Airfield improvements. 

Replace aircraft rescue and firefighting 

vehicle. Noise mitigation. 

Brief Description of Projects Approved 

for Collection and Use at A $3.00 PFC 

Level: Terminal area 12 kv electrical 

upgrade, phase I. Upgrade passenger 

information and paging systems. Part 

150 study update. Conduct terminal 

planning study. 

Decision Date: June 27, 2008. 

For Further Information Contact: 

Darlene Williams, Los Angeles Airports 

District Office, (310) 725–3625. 

Public Agency: City of Savannah and 

Savannah Airport Commission, 

Savannah, Georgia. 

Application Number: 08–07–C–00–

SAV. 

Application Type: Impose and use a 

PFC. PFC LEVEL: $4.50. 

Total PFC Revenue Approved in This 

Decision: $2,558,778. 

Earliest Charge Effective Date: March 

1, 2013. 

Estimated Charge Expiration Date: 

November 1, 2013. 

Class of Air Carriers Not Required to 

Collect PFC’s: Air taxi/commercial 

operators filing FAA Form 1800–31.00–

31. 

Determination: Approved. Based on 

information contained in the public 

agency’s application, the FAA has 

determined that the proposed class 

accounts for less than 1 percent of the 

total annual enplanements at Savannah/ 

Hilton Head International Airport. 

Brief Description of Projects Approved 

for Collection and Use: 

Rehabilitation—runway shoulders. 

PFC implementation and 

administration. 

Construct taxiway—southwest quadrant. 

Taxiway B extension. 

Runway 18/36 extension. 

Airport master plan. 

Cool air system to nine jet bridges. 

Taxiway C–2. 

Airport layout plan update. 

Bio Scrypt 15 boarding bridge doors. 

Update main communication 800 Mhz 

system to digital. 

Brief Description of Project Partially 

Approved for Collection and Use: 

Navigational aids. 

Determination: Partially approved. 

One component of the proposed project, 


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