Airworthiness directives: Class E airspace,

[Federal Register: August 4, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 149)]

[Proposed Rules]

[Page 42300-42301]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Airspace Docket No. 99-AGL-42]

Proposed Modification of Class E Airspace; Marquette, MI; Proposed Revocation of Class E Airspace; Sawyer, MI, and K.I. Sawyer, MI

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY: This notice proposes to modify Class E airspace at Marquette, MI, and revoke the Class E airspace at Sawyer, MI, and K.I. Sawyer, MI. The legal description for the Class E airspace for Sawyer Airport has been changed from Sawyer, MI, to Marquette, MI, and the legal description for Class E airspace for K.I. Sawyer, MI, is no longer valid because K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base (AFB) has been closed and renamed Sawyer International Airport. This action proposes to modify Class E airspace for Marquette, MI, to correctly describe the Class E airspace required for Sawyer International Airport, and to revoke the Class E airspace at Sawyer, MI, and K.I. Sawyer, MI.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 20, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Send Comments on the proposal in triplicate to: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of the Assistant Chief Counsel, AGL-7, Rules Docket No. 99-AGL-42, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018. The official docket may be examined in the Office of the Assistant Chief Counsel, Federal Aviation Administration, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois. An informal docket may also be examined during normal business hours at the Air traffic Deivision, Airspace Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Annette Davis, Air Traffic Division, Airspace Branch, AGL-520, Federal Aviation Administration, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018, telephone (847) 294-7568.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

Interested parties are invited to participate in this proposed rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments as they may desire. Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal. Comments are specifically invited on the overall regulatory, aeronautical, economic, environmental, and energy-related aspects of the proposal. Communications should identify the airspace docket number and be submitted in triplicate to the address listed above. Commenters wishing the FAA to acknowledge receipt of their comments on this notice must submit with those comments a self-addressed, stamped postcard on which the following statement is made: ``Comments to Airspace Docket No. 99- AGL-42.'' the postcard will be date/time stamped and returned to the commenter. All communications received on or before the specified closing date for comments will be considered before taking action on the proposed rule. The proposal contained in this notice may be changed in light of comments received. All comments submitted will be available for examination in the Rules docket, FAA, Great Lakes Region, Office of the Assistant Chief counsel, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois, both before and after the closing date for comments. A report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel concerned with this rulemaking will be filedin the docket.

Availability of NPRM's

Any person may obtain a copy of this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by submitting a request to the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Public Affairs, Attention: Public Inquiry Center, APA-230, 800 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20591, or by calling (202) 267-3484. Communications must identify the notice number of this NPRM. Persons interested in being placed on a mailing list for future NPRM's should also request a copy of Advisory Circular No. 11-2A, which describes the application procedure.

The Proposal

The FAA is considering an amendment to 14 CFR part 71 to modify Class E airspace at Marquette, MI, and revoke the Class E airspace at Sawyer, MI, and K.I. Sawyer, MI. The legal description for the Sawyer International Airport has changed from Sawyer, MI, to Marquette, MI, and K.I. Sawyer AFB has been closed. Controlled airspace extending upward from the surface is needed to contain aircraft executing instrument approach procedures. The area would be depicted on appropriate aeronautical charts. Class E airspace areas designated as a surface area for an airport are published in paragraph 6002, and Class E airspace designations for airspace areas extending upward from 700 feet or more above the surface of the earth are published in paragraph 6005, of FAA Order 7400.9F dated September 10, 1998, and effective September 16, 1998, which is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR 71.1. The Class E airspace designations listed in this document would be published subsequently in the Order.

The FAA has determined that this proposed regulation only involves an establishment body of technical

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regulations for which frequent and routine amendments are necessary to keep them operationally current. Therefore this, proposed regulation-- (1) Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a ``significant rule'' under DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) does not warrant preparation of a Regulatory Evaluation as the anticipated impact is so minimal. Since this is a routine matter that will only affect air traffic procedures and air navigation, it is certified that this proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR part 71

Airspace, Incorporation by reference, Navigation (air).

The Proposed Amendment

Accordingly, pursuant to the authority delegated to me, the Federal Aviation Administration proposes to amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows:

PART 71--DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, CLASS B, CLASS C, CLASS D, AND CLASS E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIRWAYS; ROUTES; AND REPORTING POINTS

1. The authority citation for part 71 continues to read as follows:

   Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 389.

   Sec. 71.1 [Amended]

2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of the Federal Aviation Administration Order 7400.9F, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, dated September 10, 1998, and effective September 16, 1998, is amended as follows:

   Paragraph 6002 Class E airspace areas designated as a surface area for an airport.

   * * * * *

   AGL MI E2 Sawyer, MI [Removed]

   * * * * *

   AGL MI E2 Marquette, MI [Revised]

   Marquette County Airport, MI

   (Lat. 46 deg. 32' 02''N., long. 87 deg. 33' 42''W.) Marquette, Sawyer International Airport, MI

   (Lat. 46 deg.21'13''N., long. 87 deg.23'45''W.)

   Within a 4.4-mile radius of the Marquette County Airport, and within 3.1 miles each side of the 077 deg. bearing from the airport extending from the 4.4-mile radius to 6.1 miles east of the airport and within 3.1 miles each side of the 257 deg. bearing from the airport extending from the 4.4-mile radius to 8.3 miles west of the airport, and within a 4.6-mile radius of Sawyer International Airport. * * * * *

   Paragraph 6005 Class E airspace areas extending upward from 700 feet or more above the surface of the earth.

   * * * * *

   AGL MI E5 Sawyer, MI [Removed]

   * * * * *

   AGL MI E5 K.I. Sawyer, MI [Removed]

   * * * * *

   AGL MI E5 Marquette, MI [Revised]

   Marquette County Airport, MI

   (Lat 46 deg.32'02''N., long. 87 deg.33'42''W.) Marquette, Sawyer International Airport, MI

   (Lat 46 deg.21'13''N., long. 87 deg.23'45''W.)

   That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface within a 6.6-mile radius of the Marquette County Airport, and within 3.3 miles each side of the 077 deg. bearing from the airport extending from the 6.6-mile radius to 13.1 miles east of the airport and within 3.3 miles each side of the 257 deg. bearing from the airport extending from the 6.6-mile radius to 8.7 miles west of the airport, and that airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface within an 7.1-mile radius of the Sawyer International Airport, and that airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface within a 34.8-mile radius of the Sawyer International Airport. * * * * *

   Issued in Des Plaines, Illinois on July 6, 1999. Christopher R. Blum, Manager, Air Traffic Division.

   [FR Doc. 99-20019Filed8-3-99; 8:45 am]

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