Document ID: FAA-2023-1929-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Arrival Routes at Los Angeles International Airport; Draft
Posted Date: 2023-10-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 189 (Monday, October 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 67863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21614]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[FAA-2023-1929]

Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Review Document 
for Amended Arrival Routes at Los Angeles International Airport

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of 
Transportation.

ACTION: Public comment period for the FAA's draft environmental review 
document.

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SUMMARY: The FAA announces the release of the draft environmental 
review document for the amendments to area navigation (RNAV) arrival 
procedures, HUULL, IRNMN, and RYDRR, at Los Angeles International 
Airport (KLAX), in Los Angeles, California for public review and 
comment. The draft environmental review document is available for 
public review beginning on October 2, 2023 and comments can be 
submitted on or before November 1, 2023. Comments can be submitted by 
email to [email protected] or by mail to Federal 
Aviation Administration, Operations Support Group, Western Service 
Center, 2200 216th Street, Des Moines, WA 98198. Before including your 
address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying 
information in your comment, be advised that your entire comment-
including your personal identifying information-may be made publicly 
available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold 
from public review your personal identifying information, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Bert, Operations Support Group, 
Western Service Center, 2200 216th Street, Des Moines, WA 98198; 
telephone (206) 231-2233.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the U.S. Court of Appeals 
for the Ninth Circuit's (Court) holding in City of Los Angeles, et al 
v. Dickson, No. 19-71581, the FAA is performing a new review of the 
potential environmental impacts of the implementation of the 
amendments. The Court's decision ``remand[ed] the amended Arrival 
Routes to the FAA without vacatur, leaving the amended Arrival Routes 
in place while the FAA undertakes the proper National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and National Historic Preservation Act of 
1966, 16 U.S.C. 470, et seq., (NHPA) and Department of Transportation 
Act of 1966, 49 U.S.C Sec.  303 (Section 4(f)) consultation.
    The draft environmental review document is available on the FAA 
website at: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/community_engagement/lax.

    Issued in Des Moines, WA, on September 26, 2023.
Ryan Wade Weller,
Environmental Specialist Operations Support Group Western Service 
Center.
[FR Doc. 2023-21614 Filed 9-29-23; 8:45 am]
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