Document ID: FAA-2008-0655-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Environmental Impact Statement Approving an Operations Specifications Amendment for Horizon Air to Provide Scheduled Air Service to and From Mammoth Yosemite Airport, Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, CA
Posted Date: 2008-06-10T04:00Z

[Federal Register: June 10, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 112)]
[Notices]               
[Page 32781-32782]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

 
Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the 
Environmental Impact Statement Approving an Operations Specifications 
Amendment for Horizon Air to Provide Scheduled Air Service to and From 
Mammoth Yosemite Airport, Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, CA

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability of Record of Decision.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this 
notice to advise the public that it has published a Record of Decision 
(ROD) for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that evaluated 
proposed approval of an Operations Specifications Amendment to allow 
Horizon Air to conduct scheduled air service to Mammoth Yosemite 
Airport (MMH). FAA approved the ROD on May 14, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Chuck Cox, Regional Environmental 
Technical Specialist, Northwest Mountain Region, Flight Standards 
Division, 1601 Lind Avenue, SW., Renton, WA 98055, Phone: (425) 227-
2243, Fax: (425) 227-1200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the National Environmental 
Policy Act, notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of 
Transportation--Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Record 
of Decision (ROD) approving the proposed Horizon Air Operations 
Specifications Amendment to allow scheduled air service to Mammoth 
Yosemite Airport (MMH) on May 14, 2008. The ROD documents the FAA's 
decision to approve the federal actions necessary to implement Horizon 
Air's requested Operations Specifications Amendment that permits 
scheduled air service to and from MMH using Bombardier DHC 8-400 (Q-
400) turbopropeller powered aircraft. Horizon Air may proceed with 
implementing commercial air service with two daytime flights between 
MMH and Los Angeles International Airport beginning in the winter ski 
season of 2008/2009 (approximately December to April) provided the Town 
of Mammoth Lakes obtains a 14 CFR Part 139 Class 1 Airport Operating 
Certificate for MMH.
    The ROD was based on the FAA's Final Environmental Impact 
Statement, dated March 2008, that evaluated Horizon Air's Request for 
Operations Specifications Amendment to Provide

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Scheduled Air Service to Mammoth Yosemite Airport. The Notice of 
Availability for the Final EIS was published in the Federal Register on 
April 4, 2008 (73 FR 18527). The Final EIS considered two alternatives 
in detail, including the No Action Alternative and the proposed 
amendment to Horizon Air's Operations Specifications.
    Copies of the ROD and the Final EIS are available for review at the 
following locations during normal business hours:
    U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Northwest-Mountain Region, Flight Standards Division, 1601 Lind Avenue, 
SW., Renton, Washington 98055; U.S. Department of Transportation, 
Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region, San Francisco 
Airports District Office, 831 Mitten Road, Burlingame, California 
94010;
    U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Western-Pacific Region, Office of the Airports Division, 15000 Aviation 
Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 9026;
    U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 
National Headquarters, Planning and Environmental Division, 800 
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20591;
    Administrative Offices at Mammoth Yosemite Airport; 1 Airport Road, 
Mammoth Lakes, California 93546;
    Town of Mammoth Lakes City Office, 437 Old Mammoth Road, Suite R, 
Mammoth Lakes, California 93546;
    Mono County Library Mammoth Lakes Branch, 960 Forest Trail, Mammoth 
Lakes, California, 93546;
    Inyo County Library, Bishop Branch, 210 Academy Avenue, Bishop, 
California, 93514.
    Questions may be directed to the individual above under the heading 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

    Issued in Hawthorne, California, on May 27, 2008.
George E. Aiken,
Acting Manager, Airports Division, Western-Pacific Region, AWP-600.
 [FR Doc. E8-12772 Filed 6-9-08; 8:45 am]

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