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Renton, WA 98057–3356; telephone 425– 

227–1405; fax 425–227–1149. 

(3) For service information identified in 

this AD, contact Airbus, Airworthiness 

Office—EIAS, 1 Rond Point Maurice 

Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France; 

telephone +33 5 61 93 36 96; fax +33 5 61 

93 44 51; email account.airworth-eas@

airbus.com; Internet http://www.airbus.com. 

You may view this service information at the 

FAA, Transport Standards Branch, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For information 

on the availability of this material at the 

FAA, call 425–227–1221. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on 

September 21, 2017. 

Dionne Palermo, 

Acting Director, System Oversight Branch, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21221 Filed 10–5–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 97 

[Docket No.: FAA–2017–0879] 

RIN 2120–AA65 

Criteria and Process for the 

Cancellation of Standard Instrument 

Approach Procedures as Part of the 

National Procedures Assessment 

(NPA) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Proposed policy and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: As new technology facilitates 

the introduction of area navigation 

(RNAV) instrument approach 

procedures over the past decade, the 

number of procedures available in the 

National Airspace System has nearly 

doubled. The complexity and cost to the 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

of maintaining the instrument flight 

procedures inventory while expanding 

the new RNAV capability is not 

sustainable. The FAA is considering the 

cancellation of certain circling 

procedures (to include circling-only 

instrument approach procedures (IAPs) 

and circling minima charted on straightin IAPs). The FAA proposes specific 

criteria to guide the identification and 

selection of appropriate circling 

procedures that can be considered for 

cancellation. The circling procedures 

associated with this cancellation 

initiative would be selected from the 

criteria outlined below. This document 

is not a part of the FAA’s VOR 

minimum operating network (MON) 

initiative. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 6, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2017–0879 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical questions concerning this 

action, contact Lonnie Everhart, 

Aeronautical Information Services AJV– 

5, Federal Aviation Administration, Air 

Traffic Organization, 6500 S. MacArthur 

Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169; 

Telephone (405) 954–4576; Email AMCATO-IFP-Cancellations@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority for This Rulemaking 

Under 49 U.S.C. 40103(a), the 

Administrator has broad authority to 

regulate the safe and efficient use of the 

navigable airspace. The Administrator is 

also authorized to issue air traffic rules 

and regulations to govern the flight, 

navigation, protection, and 

identification of aircraft for the 

protections of persons and property on 

the ground and for the efficient use of 

the navigable airspace. 49 U.S.C. 

40103(b). Under Section 44701(a)(5), the 

Administrator promotes safe flight of 

civil aircraft in air commerce by 

prescribing regulations and minimum 

standards for other practices, methods, 

and procedures necessary for safety in 

air commerce and national security. 

This action is within the scope of that 

authority. 

IAPs are promulgated by rulemaking 

procedures and are incorporated by 

reference pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a) 

and 1 CFR part 51 into Title 14 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations; Part 97 (14 

CFR part 97), Subpart C—TERPS 

Procedures. 

Background 

The National Airspace System (NAS) 

is currently in transition to a ‘‘NextGen 

NAS’’. During this transition, the FAA 

is managing the technology and 

procedures to support both the Legacy 

NAS as well as the NextGen NAS. 

Managing two versions of the NAS 

requires excess manpower, 

infrastructure, and information 

management which is costly and 

unsupportable in the longterm. To 

mitigate these costs, the FAA has a 

number of efforts underway to 

effectively transition from the legacy to 

the NextGen NAS. One area of focus for 

this transition is instrument flight 

procedures (IFPs). The FAA seeks to 

ensure an effective transition from 

ground-based IFPs to greater availability 

and use of satellite-based IFPs while 

maintaining NAS safety. 

In early 2015, the FAA requested the 

RTCA’s Tactical Operations Committee 

(TOC) with providing feedback and 

recommendations on criteria and 

processes for cancelling instrument 

flight procedures. Among the many 

recommendations provided by the TOC 

were criteria on how to identify circling 

procedures that would qualify as 

candidates for cancellation. As of the 

beginning of 2017, there are 

approximately 12,000 IAPs in 

publication, and there were nearly 

10,600 circling lines of minima. Circling 

procedures account for approximately 

one-third of all lines of minima in the 

NAS. 

In its continued effort to right-size the 

NAS through optimization and 

elimination of redundant and 

unnecessary IAPs, the FAA proposes the 

following criteria to guide the 

identification and selection of 

appropriate circling procedures to be 

considered for cancellation. 

It should be noted that National 

Procedures Assessment (NPA) 

Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) 

cancellation activities and associated 

criteria do not supersede similar 

activities being performed under the 


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1Section 2–8 of FAA Order 8260.19 (Flight 

Procedures and Airspace) sets forth the minimum 

frequency of review of instrument procedures. 

2The FAA has placed sample copies of the 

memorandum and checklist into the docket for this 

notice. 

3FAA Order 8260.43 (Flight Procedures 

Management Program) and FAA Order 8260.26 

(Establishing Submission Cutoff Dates for Civil 

Instrument Procedures) contain additional 

information on this process. These orders are 

available on the FAA Web site. 

FAA’s VOR MON Program. See 81 FR 

48694 (July 26, 2016). However, NPA 

IFP cancellation activities have been 

coordinated with the FAA office 

responsible for the VOR MON 

implementation program, and its input 

has been thoroughly considered. 

Proposed Policy 

All circling procedures will continue 

to be reviewed through the established 

IAP periodic review process.1 As part of 

that review process, the FAA is 

proposing that each circling procedure 

would be evaluated against the 

following questions: 

—Is this the only IAP at the airport? 

—Is this procedure a designated MON 

airport procedure? 

—If multiple IAPs serve a single runway 

end, is this the lowest circling minima 

for that runway? Note: If the RNAV 

circling minima is not the lowest, but 

is within 50’ of the lowest, the FAA 

would give the RNAV preference. 

—Would cancellation result in removal 

of circling minima from all 

conventional NAVAID procedures at 

an airport? Note: If circling minima 

exists for multiple Conventional 

NAVAID procedures, preference 

would be to retain ILS circling 

minima. 

—Would cancellation result in all 

circling minima being removed from 

all airports within 20 NMs? 

—Will removal eliminate lowest landing 

minima to an individual runway? 

The following questions are 

applicable only to circling-only 

procedures: 

—Does this circling-only procedure 

exist because of high terrain or an 

obstacle that makes a straight-in 

procedure unfeasible or which would 

result in the straight-in minimums 

being higher than the circling 

minima? 

—Is this circling-only procedure (1) at 

an airport where not all runway ends 

have a straight-in IAP, and (2) does it 

have a Final Approach Course not 

aligned within 45 degrees of a runway 

which has a straight-in IAP? 

Further consideration for cancellation 

under this policy would be terminated 

if any of the aforementioned questions 

are answered in the affirmative. If all 

questions are answered in the negative, 

the procedure would be processed as 

described in the following paragraph. 

When a candidate has been identified, 

Aeronautical Information Services 

would send a notification of procedure 

cancellation memorandum and 

completed checklist to the appropriate 

Regional Service Area, Operations 

Support Group.2 The Regional Service 

Area, Operations Support Group would 

follow the same notification process 

used for standard IFP requests.3

Consistent with FAA procedures 

outlined in the procedure cancellation 

memorandum, comments regarding the 

aforementioned circling procedure 

would need to be submitted within 30 

days of the timestamp on the 

communication media through which it 

was delivered. Comments would be 

directed to the Regional Service Area, 

Operations Support Group for 

dissemination to Aeronautical 

Information Services. Comments would 

be adjudicated by Aeronautical 

Information Services within 30 days of 

the timestamp on the communication 

media through which it was received. A 

final decision would be forwarded to 

Regional Service Area, Operations 

Support Group to disseminate to 

commenter(s). The cancellation of the 

part 97 instrument procedure will be 

published in the Federal Register. 

Invitation for Comments 

The FAA invites interested parties to 

submit written comments, data, or 

views. The agency also invites 

comments relating to the economic, 

environmental, energy, or federalism 

impacts that might result from 

implementation of the proposed policy. 

Comments should explain the reason for 

modifying or not implementing this 

proposed policy. To ensure the docket 

does not contain duplicate comments, 

commenters should send only one copy 

of written comments or, if comments are 

filed electronically, commenters should 

submit only one time. 

The FAA will consider all comments 

it receives on or before the closing date 

for comments before acting on proposed 

policy. The FAA will consider 

comments submitted after the comment 

period has closed if it is possible to do 

so without incurring expense or delay. 

The agency may change this proposal in 

light of the comments it receives. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

22, 2017. 

Steven L. Szukala, 

Manager, Instrument Flight Procedure Group, 

Aeronautical Information Services. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21626 Filed 10–5–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

15 CFR Part 30 

[Docket Number: 170606545–7857–01] 

RIN 0607–AA56 

Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR): 

Request for Public Comments 

Regarding Standard and Routed 

Export Transactions 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Commerce Department. 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census 

(U.S. Census Bureau) is seeking public 

comments to perform a review of the 

requirements governing routed export 

transactions. In particular, the Census 

Bureau is interested in comments 

regarding the definition of a routed 

export transaction as well as the 

responsibilities of parties in routed 

export transactions. Routed export 

transactions are transactions in which 

the Foreign Principal Party in Interest 

(FPPI) controls the movement of the 

goods out of the country. There are a 

variety of reasons why the FPPI assumes 

this responsibility such as the use of a 

preferred carrier and the desire to not 

disclose the ultimate consignee to the 

U.S. Principal Party in Interest (USPPI), 

although the ultimate consignee is 

properly identified to the U.S. 

Government. Because the FPPI controls 

the movement of the goods in a routed 

transaction and cannot file Electronic 

Export Information (EEI), the Census 

Bureau requires the FPPI to authorize a 

U.S. authorized agent or the USPPI to 

file the EEI on its behalf. This ensures 

that the Census Bureau collects the 

statistical information. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before December 5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please direct all written 

comments on this advance notice of 

proposed rulemaking to the Chief, 

International Trade Management 

Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 

5K158, Washington, DC 20233–6010. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by RIN number 0607–AA56, 

to the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 


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