Document ID: FAA-2009-0161-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Meetings: National Parks Overflights Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee
Posted Date: 2009-02-18T05:00Z

[Federal Register: February 18, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 31)]
[Notices]
[Page 7633-7634]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Supplemental Notice of Meeting of the National Parks Overflights
Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee

ACTION: Revised notice of meeting and additional information.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National
Park Service (NPS), in accordance with the National Parks Air Tour
Management Act of 2000, announce the next meeting of the National Parks
Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC).
This notification provides the date, format, and agenda for the meeting
and provides additional information to the Federal Register notice
published on February 3, 2009 (Vol. 74, No. 21, Page 5969) by providing
the call in number for the public to access the telcon.
    Dates and Location: The NPOAG ARC will hold a meeting on February
25th, 2009. The meeting will be conducted as a telephone conference
call. The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific Standard
Time on February 25th. This NPOAG meeting will be open

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to the public. Interested persons may listen in on the conference call
(see Public Participation at the Meeting)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry Brayer, AWP-1SP, Special
Programs Staff, Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region
Headquarters, P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007, telephone:
(310) 725-3800, e-mail: Barry.Brayer@faa.gov, or Vicki McCusker,
National Park Service, Natural Sounds Program, 1201 Oakridge Dr., Suite
100, Fort Collins, CO 80525, telephone: (970) 267-2117, e-mail: Vicki_
McCusker@nps.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000 (NPATMA),
enacted on April 5, 2000, as Public Law 106-181, required the
establishment of the NPOAG within one year after its enactment. The Act
requires that the NPOAG be a balanced group of representatives of
general aviation, commercial air tour operations, environmental
concerns, and Native American tribes. The Administrator of the FAA and
the Director of NPS (or their designees) serve as ex officio members of
the group. Representatives of the Administrator and Director serve
alternating 1-year terms as chairman of the advisory group.
    The duties of the NPOAG include providing advice, information, and
recommendations to the FAA Administrator and the NPS Director on:
implementation of Public Law 106-181; quiet aircraft technology; other
measures that might accommodate interests to visitors of national
parks; and at the request of the Administrator and the Director, on
safety, environmental, and other issues related to commercial air tour
operations over national parks or tribal lands.

Agenda for the February 25, 2009, NPOAG Meeting

    The agenda for the meeting will include, but is not limited to, the
following: review of a Strategic Plan for the NPOAG, review and
approval of the meeting minutes from the December 1, 2008 NPOAG
telephone conference call meeting; discussion on the strawman for a
competitive bidding process, and an update on ongoing Air Tour
Management Plan (ATMP) program projects.

Public Participation for the Meeting

    This NPOAG meeting will be conducted as a telephone conference call
and will be open to the public. Interested persons may listen in on the
proceedings in a ``listen mode.'' The conference call will take place
from 9 a.m.-12 noon PST/12 noon-3 p.m. EST on February 25, 2009. The
public can access the conference call by dialing 310-725-3333 and
entering the passcode number 0225 when prompted, followed by the
``'' sign.

Record of the Meeting

    If you are unable to participate in this NPOAG meeting conference
call, a summary record of the meeting will be made available under the
NPOAG section of the FAA's ATMP Web site at http://www.atmp.faa.gov or
through the Special Programs Staff, Western-Pacific Region, Federal
Aviation Administration, P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007,
telephone (310) 725-3800. The FAA's ATMP Web site, however, may be down
temporarily due to maintenance.

    Issued in Hawthorne, CA on February 9, 2009.
Barry S. Brayer,
Manager, Special Programs Office, Western-Pacific Region.
 [FR Doc. E9-3209 Filed 2-17-09; 8:45 am]

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