55588 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 187 / Thursday, September 25, 2008 / Notices 

information was published on June 19, 

2008, vol. 73, no. 119, page 34972– 

34973. The requested information is 

included in air carriers’ applications for 

insurance when insurance is not 

available from private sources. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

October 27, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER FORMATION CONTACT: Carla 

Mauney at Carla.Mauneyfaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

Title: Aviation Insurance. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0514. 

Form(s): There are no FAA forms 

associated with this collection. 

Affected Public: An estimated 61 

Respondents. 

Frequency: This information is 

collected on occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 2.23 hours 

per response. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An 

estimated 616 hours annually. 

Abstract: The requested information 

is included in air carriers’ applications 

for insurance when insurance is not 

available from private sources. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to Nathan Lesser, Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974. 

Comments are invited on: Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimates of the 

burden of the proposed information 

collection; ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

17, 2008. 

Carla Mauney, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services 

Division, AES–200. 

[FR Doc. E8–22457 Filed 9–24–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Centennial Airport, Englewood, CO; 

FAA Approval of Noise Compatibility 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice, Noise compatibility 

program. 

SUMMARY: The FAA’s Federal Register 

Notice entitled ‘‘Approval of Noise 

Compatibility Program; Centennial 

Airport, Englewood, CO;’’ published 

August 21, 2008, published with several 

inaccuracies. Because of those 

inaccuracies we withdraw the August 

21, 2008 notice (73 FR 49635) and are 

issuing this notice to replace the August 

21, 2008 notice. The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) announces its 

findings on the noise compatibility 

program submitted by the Arapahoe 

County Public Airport Authority for the 

Centennial Airport under the provisions 

of Title I of the Aviation Safety and 

Noise Abatement Act of 1979 (Pub. L. 

96–193) and 14 CFR Part 150, Airport 

Noise Compatibility Planning. These 

findings are made in recognition of the 

description of federal and non-federal 

responsibilities in Senate Report No. 

96–52 (1980). On August 12, 2008, FAA 

Airports Division Manager approved the 

Centennial Airport noise compatibility 

program. Of the twelve proposed 

program elements, FAA approved eight 

and reserved approval of another two 

measures pending further study. The 

remaining two measures were 

disapproved. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of the FAA’s approval of the Centennial 

Airport noise compatibility program is 

August 12, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Linda Bruce, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Denver Airports District 

Office, 26805 E. 68th Avenue, Suite 224, 

Denver, Colorado 80249–6361, 

Telephone (303) 342–1264. Documents 

reflecting this FAA action may be 

obtained from Ms. Bruce or on the 

Internet at http://www.faa.gov/airportsairtraffic/airports/regional-guidance/ 

northwest-mountain/environmental/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces that the FAA has 

given its overall approval to the 

Centennial Airport noise compatibility 

program, effective August 12, 2008. 

Under Section 104(a) of the Aviation 

Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 

(hereinafter 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 

14 CFR Part 150 is a local program, not 

a federal program. The FAA does not 

substitute its judgment for that of the 

airport sponsor with respect to which 

measures should be recommended for 

action. The FAA’s approval or 

disapproval of 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 14 CFR 

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 

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 FAA 

Administrator, as prescribed by law. 

Specific limitations with respect to 

FAA’s approval of an airport noise 

compatibility program are delineated in 

Part 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 a 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. 

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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. Where 

Federal funding is sought, the airport 

sponsor must submit requests for project 

grants to the FAA Denver Airports 

District Office in Denver, Colorado. 

The Centennial Airport study 

contains a proposed noise compatibility 

program comprised of actions designed 

for implementation by airport 

management and adjacent jurisdictions 

from the date of study completion to 

beyond the year 2012. The Arapahoe 

County Public Airport Authority, 

Englewood, CO, requested that the FAA 

evaluate and approve this material as a 

noise compatibility program for the 

Centennial Airport, as described in 

Section 104(b) of the Act. The FAA 

began its review of the program on 

February 22, 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 flight 

procedures for noise control). Failure to 

approve or disapprove such a program 

within the 180-day period shall be 

deemed to be an approval of such a 

program. 

The submitted program contained 12 

proposed actions to address noise on 

and off the airport. The FAA completed 

its review and determined that the 

overall program complied with 

procedural and substantive 

requirements of the Act and Part 150. 

The overall program, therefore, was 

approved by FAA effective August 12, 

2008. 

FAA granted outright approval for 

five of the specific program 

recommendations. One of these 

approved elements involves voluntary 

measures that the airport sponsor can 

encourage pilots to use to help 

minimize aircraft noise. The other four 

approved recommendations involve 

program management and are intended 

to assist in the development and 

operations of a noise abatement office 

and noise monitoring efforts. These 

measures include the installation of a 

permanent noise monitoring system to 

monitor noise levels and compliance 

with noise abatement measures and the 

use of a public advisory committee to 

monitor programs implemented as a 

result on the adoption of the NCP, 

including the Noise Monitoring 

Program. 

FAA approved in part the NCP 

recommendation that addresses land 

use planning. This recommendation 

involves the airport authority working 

with the local municipalities to amend 

zoning requirements, comprehensive 

plans and development regulations to 

minimize new, noncompatible land uses 

near the airport and to minimize the 

impact on airspace surrounding the 

airport, including 14 CFR Part 77 

imaginary surfaces. FAA disapproved 

for Part 150 purposes portions of this 

recommendation related to airspace 

issues regulated under Part 77. 

In addition, the airport sponsor 

proposes four changes to flight 

procedures. One of these measures, a 

change to nighttime flight procedures 

for jets departing to the north, FAA 

approved, subject to further 

environmental review and air traffic 

operational safety and efficiency. FAA 

also approved, for Part 150 purposes, 

the elimination of the preferential 

runway procedure. 

FAA disapproved the remaining two 

program elements that involve proposed 

changes to flight procedures. FAA Air 

Traffic Control determined these 

procedures would create numerous 

adverse impacts to safety and efficiency 

of air traffic control operations. These 

procedures would have tested 24-hour 

flight tracks between 350 and 010 

degree headings and implemented a 170 

degree departure heading to 4 DME or 

8,000 MSL (± 20 degrees). 

The airport sponsor also proposes 

banning certain type of aircraft 

operations. In particular, the airport 

sponsor proposes the ban of Stage I 

aircraft under 75,000 lbs. from operating 

at Centennial Airport but did not 

provide data supporting the noise 

benefit of such a ban, per Part 150 

requirements. For this reason, the FAA 

disapproved this recommendation 

pending further study. The Arapahoe 

Public Airport Authority may submit 

this additional information to FAA for 

further evaluation. 

FAA also disapproved the proposed 

ban of Stage 2 aircraft between the hours 

of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., pending 

additional information needed from the 

airport sponsor, as required under 14 

CFR Part 161. The Arapahoe Public 

Airport Authority studied the noise 

benefit of such a ban and describes this 

benefit in its NCP. While this meets the 

requirements of Part 150, Part 161 

requires additional FAA review and 

approval to determine the impact of 

such a ban on air commerce and the 

national airspace system prior to 

implementing the ban. 

FAA’s determinations are set forth in 

detail in a Record of Approval endorsed 

by the FAA Airports Division Manager 

on August 12, 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 and Internet 

site listed above and at the 

administrative offices of the Arapahoe 

County Public Airport Authority, 

Englewood, CO. 

Re-issued in Renton, Washington, on 

August 25, 2008. 

Donna P. Taylor, 

Manager, Airports Division, FAA Northwest 

Mountain Region. 

[FR Doc. E8–22460 Filed 9–24–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

its implementing regulations, the 

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 

hereby announces that it is seeking 

renewal of the following currently 

approved information collection 

activities. Before submitting these 

information collection requirements for 

clearance by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), FRA is soliciting 

public comment on specific aspects of 

the activities identified below. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than November 24, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on any or all of the following proposed 

activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert 

Brogan, Office of Safety, Planning and 

Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop–25, 

Washington, DC 20590, or Ms. Nakia 

Jackson, Office of Information 

Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 

20590. Commenters requesting FRA to 

acknowledge receipt of their respective 

comments must include a self-addressed 

stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments 

on OMB control number 2130–0571.’’ 

Alternatively, comments may be 

transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493– 

6216 or (202) 493–6497, or via e-mail to 

Mr. Brogan at robert.brogan@dot.gov, or 

to Ms. Jackson at 

nakia.jackson@dot.gov. Please refer to 

the assigned OMB control number in 

any correspondence submitted. FRA 

will summarize comments received in 

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