Document ID: FAA-2009-1144-0004
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]
[Page 39091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16390]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. 2009-1144]

Airport Privatization Pilot Program

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Receipt and Acceptance for Review: Preliminary 
Application for Luis Mu[ntilde]oz Mar[iacute]n International Airport 
(SJU), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed its 
review of the Luis Mu[ntilde]oz Mar[iacute]n International Airport 
International Airport (SJU) preliminary application for participation 
in the airport privatization pilot program received under 49 U.S.C. 
47134. The preliminary application is accepted for review, with a 
filing date of December 1, 2009. The Puerto Rico Ports Authority, 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. 49 U.S.C. 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 SJU preliminary 
application is available for public review at http://www.regulations.gov. The docket number is FAA Docket Number 2009-1144.

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 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 
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.
    The Puerto Rico Ports Authority submitted a preliminary application 
to the Airport Privatization Pilot Program for Luis Mu[ntilde]oz 
Mar[iacute]n International Airport on December 1, 2009; the preliminary 
application is accepted for review, with a filing date of December 1, 
2009. The Authority 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. 2010-16390 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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