Document ID: FAA-2010-0473-0003
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Airport Privatization Pilot Program
Posted Date: 2010-07-07T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39090-39091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16386]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. 2010-0473]

Airport Privatization Pilot Program

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Receipt and Acceptance for Review: Preliminary 
Application for Gwinnett County Airport Briscoe Field (LZU), 
Lawrenceville, Georgia.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed its 
review of the Gwinnett County Airport Briscoe Field (LZU) preliminary 
application for participation in the airport privatization pilot 
program received under 49 U.S.C. Section 47134. The preliminary 
application is accepted for review, with a filing date of April 26, 
2010. Gwinnett County, the airport sponsor, may select a private 
operator, negotiate an agreement and submit a final application to the 
FAA for exemption under the pilot program. If the FAA approves the 
final application for Gwinnett County Airport Briscoe Field, the 
Airport will qualify as the Pilot Program's general aviation airport 
required by Title 49 U.S.C. Section 47134.
    49 U.S.C. Section 47134 establishes an airport privatization pilot 
program and authorizes the Department of Transportation to grant 
exemptions from certain Federal statutory and regulatory requirements 
for up to five airport privatization projects. The application 
procedures require the FAA to publish a notice in the Federal Register 
after review of a preliminary application. The FAA must publish a 
notice of receipt of the final application in the Federal Register for 
public review and comment for a sixty-day period. The LZU preliminary 
application is available for public review at http://www.regulations.gov. The docket number is FAA Docket Number 2010-0473.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin C. Willis (202-267-8741) Airport 
Compliance Division, ACO-100, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Introduction and Background

    Title 49 of the U.S. Code 47134 authorizes the Secretary of 
Transportation, and through delegation, the FAA Administrator, to 
exempt a sponsor of a public use airport that has

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received Federal assistance, from certain Federal requirements in 
connection with the privatization of the airport by sale or lease to a 
private party. Specifically, the Administrator may exempt the sponsor 
from all or part of the requirements to use airport revenues for 
airport-related purposes, to pay back a portion of Federal grants upon 
the sale or lease of an airport, and to return airport property deeded 
by the Federal Government upon transfer of the airport. The 
Administrator is also authorized to exempt the private purchaser or 
lessee from the requirement to use all airport revenues for airport-
related purposes, to the extent necessary to permit the purchaser or 
lessee to earn compensation from the operations of the airport.
    On September 16, 1997, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a 
notice of procedures to be used in applications for exemption under the 
Airport Privatization Pilot Program (62 FR 48693). A request for 
participation in the Pilot Program must be initiated by the filing of 
either a preliminary or final application for exemption with the FAA.
    Gwinnett County submitted a preliminary application to the Airport 
Privatization Pilot Program for Gwinnett County Airport Briscoe Field 
on April 26, 2010; the preliminary application is accepted for review, 
with a filing date of April 26, 2010. The County may select a private 
operator, negotiate an agreement and submit a final application to the 
FAA for exemption.
    If FAA accepts the final application for review, the application 
will be made available for public review and comment for a sixty-day 
period.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2010.
Randall S. Fiertz,
Director, Office of Airport Compliance and Field Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-16386 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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