Meetings: based Navigation User Forum,

[Federal Register: June 16, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 115)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Notice of Public Meeting; Satellite-Based Navigation User Forum

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of System Architecture and Investment Analysis.

SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of System Architecture and Investment Analysis (ASD) will hold a forum to present findings and obtain information from the aviation user community as part of the investment analysis process as we transition to a satellite-based navigation (Sat/Nav) infrastructure.

DATES: The (Sat/Nav) user forum public meeting will be held on July 7, 1999, at the Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC, in the third-floor auditorium from 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon, followed by a question and answer session. In addition, time will be made

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available for specific follow-on meetings as needed. Contact the Sat/ Nav Investment Analysis Team Lead for this purpose.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Millie Butler-Harris, CNS Facility Investment Analysis, ASD-410, at (202) 358-5399 and via e:mail at millie.butler-harris@faa.gov or Dr. Robert Rovinsky, the SatNav Investment Analysis Team Lead, ASD-410, at (202) 358-5212 and via e:mail at robert.rovinsky@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing its plan to transition to a totally satellite-based navigation (Sat/Nav) infrastructure. A Sat/Nav public meeting is planned to obtain input from the aviation community as the FAA considers the analysis and develops the alternatives for a particular approach to navigation within the Nation's airspace.

At this meeting, the FAA will review the economic information that the team has already received along with the cost, benefits the risk findings. The team will also discuss its overall findings including the alternatives analysis. This is the last in a series of three public meetings prior to the investment analysis team's presentation before the FAA's Joint Resources Council with its recommended baseline for Sat/Nav.

The public is invited to attend the meeting as observers and/or to provide comment. Requests to attend this meeting and to obtain information should be directed to the contact persons listed above. Additional information will be posted on the Internet at www.faa.gov/ asd.

Issued in Washington, DC., on June 9, 1999. Janice L. Peters, Designated Official.

[FR Doc. 99-15294Filed6-15-99; 8:45 am]

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