Document ID: FAA-2017-1197-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Categorical Exclusions and Records of Decisions: LaGuardia Airport RNAV (GPS) Runway 13 Procedure
Posted Date: 2017-12-28T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 248 (Thursday, December 28, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61657-61658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27965]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2017-1197; Notice of Availability Docket No. 17-AEA-25]

Notice of Availability of Categorical Exclusion and Record of 
Decision (CATEX/ROD) for LGA RNAV (GPS) Runway 13 Procedure

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The FAA, Eastern Service Area is issuing this notice to advise 
the public of the availability of the Categorical Exclusion/Record of 
Decision (CATEX/ROD) for the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) RNAV (GPS) Runway 
13 (RWY 13) procedure. The FAA reviewed the action and determined it to 
be categorically excluded from further environmental documentation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ryan W. Almasy, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Operations Support Group, Eastern Service Center, 1701 
Columbia Avenue, College Park, Georgia

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30337, (404) 305-5601 or http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/environmental_issues/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The LGA RNAV (GPS) RWY 13 procedure provides 
a de-conflicted approach procedure when weather or winds require LGA to 
land RWY 13. Without this procedure, when the weather minimums fall 
below 1,500 feet, and 3-mile visibility and use of an ILS is required, 
Newark (EWR), Teterboro (TEB), and LGA cannot operate at the same time. 
Traffic at one of the three airports must be stopped to permit the 
other two airports to operate. The FAA is proposing to use the RNAV 
procedure for approximately 1,500 operations annually (0.8 percent of 
all LGA landings) to de-conflict the New York metro airspace. The FAA 
reviewed the action and determined it to be categorically excluded from 
further environmental documentation according to FAA Order 1050.1F, 
Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures. The applicable 
categorical exclusion is section 5-6.5(i.).

    Issued in College Park, Georgia, on December 15, 2017.
Ryan W. Almasy,
Manager, Operations Support Group, Eastern Service Center, Air Traffic 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 2017-27965 Filed 12-27-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4910-13-P