80_FR_73378 80 FR 73152 - Proposed Establishment of Class E Airspace, South Bend, WA

80 FR 73152 - Proposed Establishment of Class E Airspace, South Bend, WA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 226 (November 24, 2015)

Page Range73152-73153
FR Document2015-29788

This action proposes to establish Class E airspace at Willapa Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA, to accommodate new standard instrument approach and departure procedures developed at the heliport. Controlled airspace is necessary for the safety and management of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations at the heliport.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 226 (Tuesday, November 24, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 226 (Tuesday, November 24, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 73152-73153]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29788]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Docket No. FAA-2015-3771; Airspace Docket No. 15-ANM-28]


Proposed Establishment of Class E Airspace, South Bend, WA

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

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SUMMARY: This action proposes to establish Class E airspace at Willapa 
Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA, to accommodate new standard instrument 
approach and departure procedures developed at the heliport. Controlled 
airspace is necessary for the safety and management of Instrument 
Flight Rules (IFR) operations at the heliport.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 8, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this proposal to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590; 
telephone (202) 366-9826. You must identify FAA Docket No. FAA-2015-
3771; Airspace Docket No. 15-ANM-28, at the beginning of your comments. 
You may also submit comments through the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. You may review the public docket containing the 
proposal, any comments received, and any final disposition in person in 
the Dockets Office between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays. The Docket Office (telephone 1-800-
647-5527), is on the ground floor of the building at the above address.
    FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, and 
subsequent amendments can be viewed online at http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/. For further information, you can contact the 
Airspace Policy and ATC Regulations Group, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 29591; 
telephone: 202-267-8783. The Order is also available for inspection at 
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For 
information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202-741-
6030, or go to http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal-regulations/ibr_locations.html.
    FAA Order 7400.9, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, is 
published yearly and effective on September 15.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Haga, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center, 1601 
Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) 203-4563.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority for This Rulemaking

    The FAA's authority to issue rules regarding aviation safety is 
found in Title 49 of the United States Code. Subtitle I, Section 106 
describes the authority of the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII, 
Aviation Programs, describes in more detail the scope of the agency's 
authority. This rulemaking is promulgated under the authority described 
in Subtitle VII, Part, A, Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that section, 
the FAA is charged with prescribing regulations to assign the use of 
airspace necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and the efficient 
use of airspace. This regulation is within the scope of that authority 
as it would establish Class E airspace at Willapa Harbor Heliport, 
South Bend, WA.

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 both docket numbers 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 Docket No. FAA-2015-3771; 
Airspace Docket No. 15-ANM-28.'' The postcard will be date/time stamped 
and returned to the commenter.

Availability of NPRMs

    An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded through the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. Recently published rulemaking 
documents can also be accessed through the FAA's Web page at http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraffic/air_traffic/publications/airspace_amendments/.
    You may review the public docket containing the proposal, any 
comments received, and any final disposition in person in the Dockets 
Office (see the ADDRESSES section for the address and phone number) 
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal 
holidays. An informal docket may also be examined during normal 
business hours at the Northwest Mountain Regional Office of the Federal 
Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization, Western Service 
Center, Operations Support Group, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 
98057.
    Persons interested in being placed on a mailing list for future 
NPRMs should contact the FAA's Office of Rulemaking, (202) 267-9677, 
for a copy of Advisory Circular No. 11-2A, Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking Distribution System, which describes the application 
procedure.

Availability and Summary of Documents Proposed for Incorporation by 
Reference

    This document would amend FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace Designations 
and Reporting Points, dated August 6, 2015, and effective September 15, 
2015. FAA Order 7400.9Z is publicly available as listed in the 
ADDRESSES section of this document. FAA Order 7400.9Z lists Class A, B, 
C, D, and E airspace areas, air traffic service routes, and reporting 
points.

The Proposal

    The FAA is proposing an amendment to Title 14 Code of Federal 
Regulations (14 CFR) Part 71 by establishing Class E airspace extending 
upward from 700 feet above the surface at Willapa Harbor Heliport, 
South Bend, WA. Establishment of a GPS approach and departure procedure 
has made this action necessary for the safety and management of IFR 
operations at the heliport. Class E airspace would be established 
within a 1.8-mile radius of the Willapa Harbor Heliport, with a segment 
extending from the 1.8-mile radius to 5.5 miles northwest of the 
heliport.
    Class E airspace designations are published in paragraph 6005 of 
FAA Order 7400.9Z, dated August 6, 2015, and effective September 15, 
2015, which is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR 71.1. The Class E 
airspace designations listed in this document will be published 
subsequently in the Order.

Regulatory Notices and Analyses

    The FAA has determined that this regulation only involves an 
established body of technical regulations for which frequent and 
routine amendments are necessary to keep them operationally

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current, is non-controversial and unlikely to result in adverse or 
negative comments. It, therefore: (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 rule, when promulgated, would not have a 
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities 
under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Environmental Review

    This proposal will be subject to an environmental analysis in 
accordance with FAA Order 1050.1F, ``Environmental Impacts: Policies 
and Procedures'' prior to any FAA final regulatory action.

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, B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR 
TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND REPORTING POINTS

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1. The authority citation for 14 CFR part 71 continues to read as 
follows:

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


Sec.  71.1  [Amended]

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2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.9Z, 
Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, dated August 6, 2015, and 
effective September 15, 2015, is amended as follows:

Paragraph 6005 Class E Airspace Areas Extending Upward From 700 
Feet or More Above the Surface of the Earth.

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ANM WA E5 Willapa Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA [New]

Willapa Harbor Heliport, WA
    (Lat. 46[deg]39'47'' N., long. 123[deg]48'44'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 1.8-mile radius of Willapa Harbor Heliport, and that 
airspace bounded by a line beginning at a point where the Willapa 
Harbor 278[deg] bearing intersects the Willapa Harbor 1.8-mile 
radius, thence northwest to lat. 46[deg]42'26'' N., long. 
123[deg]55'39'' W.; to lat. 46[deg]45'28'' N., long. 123[deg]52'46'' 
W.; to lat. 46[deg]43'55'' N., long. 123[deg]48'46'' W.; to lat. 
46[deg]41'18'' N., long. 123[deg]46'14'' W.; to a point where the 
Willapa Harbor 98[deg] bearing intersects the Willapa Harbor 1.8-
mile radius, thence clockwise along the 1.8-mile radius to the point 
of beginning.

    Issued in Seattle, Washington, on November 10, 2015.
Christopher Ramirez,
Manager, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center.
[FR Doc. 2015-29788 Filed 11-23-15; 8:45 am]
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73152 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 226 / Tuesday, November 24, 2015 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION published yearly and effective on You may review the public docket September 15. containing the proposal, any comments Federal Aviation Administration FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: received, and any final disposition in Steve Haga, Federal Aviation person in the Dockets Office (see the 14 CFR Part 71 Administration, Operations Support ADDRESSES section for the address and Group, Western Service Center, 1601 phone number) between 9:00 a.m. and [Docket No. FAA–2015–3771; Airspace 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Docket No. 15–ANM–28] Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) 203–4563. except federal holidays. An informal Proposed Establishment of Class E docket may also be examined during SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Airspace, South Bend, WA normal business hours at the Northwest Authority for This Rulemaking Mountain Regional Office of the Federal AGENCY: Federal Aviation Aviation Administration, Air Traffic The FAA’s authority to issue rules Administration (FAA), DOT. Organization, Western Service Center, regarding aviation safety is found in ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking Title 49 of the United States Code. Operations Support Group, 1601 Lind (NPRM). Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057. Persons interested in being placed on SUMMARY: This action proposes to authority of the FAA Administrator. a mailing list for future NPRMs should establish Class E airspace at Willapa Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, contact the FAA’s Office of Rulemaking, Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA, to describes in more detail the scope of the (202) 267–9677, for a copy of Advisory accommodate new standard instrument agency’s authority. This rulemaking is Circular No. 11–2A, Notice of Proposed approach and departure procedures promulgated under the authority Rulemaking Distribution System, which developed at the heliport. Controlled described in Subtitle VII, Part, A, describes the application procedure. airspace is necessary for the safety and Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that management of Instrument Flight Rules section, the FAA is charged with Availability and Summary of (IFR) operations at the heliport. prescribing regulations to assign the use Documents Proposed for Incorporation of airspace necessary to ensure the by Reference DATES: Comments must be received on safety of aircraft and the efficient use of or before January 8, 2016. This document would amend FAA airspace. This regulation is within the Order 7400.9Z, Airspace Designations ADDRESSES: Send comments on this scope of that authority as it would and Reporting Points, dated August 6, proposal to the U.S. Department of establish Class E airspace at Willapa 2015, and effective September 15, 2015. Transportation, Docket Operations, M– Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA. FAA Order 7400.9Z is publicly available 30, West Building Ground Floor, Room Comments Invited as listed in the ADDRESSES section of this W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., document. FAA Order 7400.9Z lists Washington, DC 20590; telephone (202) Interested parties are invited to Class A, B, C, D, and E airspace areas, 366–9826. You must identify FAA participate in this proposed rulemaking air traffic service routes, and reporting Docket No. FAA–2015–3771; Airspace by submitting such written data, views, points. Docket No. 15–ANM–28, at the or arguments, as they may desire. beginning of your comments. You may Comments that provide the factual basis The Proposal also submit comments through the supporting the views and suggestions The FAA is proposing an amendment Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. presented are particularly helpful in to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations You may review the public docket developing reasoned regulatory (14 CFR) Part 71 by establishing Class E containing the proposal, any comments decisions on the proposal. Comments airspace extending upward from 700 received, and any final disposition in are specifically invited on the overall feet above the surface at Willapa Harbor person in the Dockets Office between regulatory, aeronautical, economic, Heliport, South Bend, WA. 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday environmental, and energy-related Establishment of a GPS approach and through Friday, except Federal holidays. aspects of the proposal. departure procedure has made this The Docket Office (telephone 1–800– Communications should identify both action necessary for the safety and 647–5527), is on the ground floor of the docket numbers and be submitted in management of IFR operations at the building at the above address. triplicate to the address listed above. heliport. Class E airspace would be FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace Commenters wishing the FAA to established within a 1.8-mile radius of Designations and Reporting Points, and acknowledge receipt of their comments the Willapa Harbor Heliport, with a subsequent amendments can be viewed on this notice must submit with those segment extending from the 1.8-mile online at http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/ comments a self-addressed, stamped radius to 5.5 miles northwest of the publications/. For further information, postcard on which the following heliport. you can contact the Airspace Policy and statement is made: ‘‘Comments to Class E airspace designations are ATC Regulations Group, Federal Docket No. FAA–2015–3771; Airspace published in paragraph 6005 of FAA Aviation Administration, 800 Docket No. 15–ANM–28.’’ The postcard Order 7400.9Z, dated August 6, 2015, Independence Avenue SW., will be date/time stamped and returned and effective September 15, 2015, which Washington, DC 29591; telephone: 202– to the commenter. is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR 267–8783. The Order is also available 71.1. The Class E airspace designations for inspection at the National Archives Availability of NPRMs mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS listed in this document will be and Records Administration (NARA). An electronic copy of this document published subsequently in the Order. For information on the availability of may be downloaded through the this material at NARA, call 202–741– Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. Regulatory Notices and Analyses 6030, or go to http://www.archives.gov/ Recently published rulemaking The FAA has determined that this federal_register/code_of_federal- documents can also be accessed through regulation only involves an established regulations/ibr_locations.html. the FAA’s Web page at http://www.faa. body of technical regulations for which FAA Order 7400.9, Airspace gov/airports_airtraffic/air_traffic/ frequent and routine amendments are Designations and Reporting Points, is publications/airspace_amendments/. necessary to keep them operationally VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:45 Nov 23, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\24NOP1.SGM 24NOP1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 226 / Tuesday, November 24, 2015 / Proposed Rules 73153 current, is non-controversial and intersects the Willapa Harbor 1.8-mile radius, knowledge, no extraordinary unlikely to result in adverse or negative thence northwest to lat. 46°42′26″ N., long. circumstances exist. If FDA determines comments. It, therefore: (1) Is not a 123°55′39″ W.; to lat. 46°45′28″ N., long. a categorical exclusion applies, neither ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ under 123°52′46″ W.; to lat. 46°43′55″ N., long. an environmental assessment nor an 123°48′46″ W.; to lat. 46°41′18″ N., long. Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a 123°46′14″ W.; to a point where the Willapa environmental impact statement is ‘‘significant rule’’ under DOT Harbor 98° bearing intersects the Willapa required. If FDA determines a Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 Harbor 1.8-mile radius, thence clockwise categorical exclusion does not apply, we FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) along the 1.8-mile radius to the point of will request an environmental does not warrant preparation of a beginning. assessment and make it available for regulatory evaluation as the anticipated Issued in Seattle, Washington, on public inspection. impact is so minimal. Since this is a November 10, 2015. Dated: November 18, 2015. routine matter that will only affect air Christopher Ramirez, Bernadette Dunham, traffic procedures and air navigation, it Manager, Operations Support Group, Western Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine. is certified that this rule, when Service Center. [FR Doc. 2015–29832 Filed 11–23–15; 8:45 am] promulgated, would not have a [FR Doc. 2015–29788 Filed 11–23–15; 8:45 am] significant economic impact on a BILLING CODE 4164–01–P BILLING CODE 4910–13–P substantial number of small entities under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Environmental Review HUMAN SERVICES Bureau of Prisons This proposal will be subject to an environmental analysis in accordance Food and Drug Administration 28 CFR Part 549 with FAA Order 1050.1F, [BOP–1169–P] ‘‘Environmental Impacts: Policies and 21 CFR Part 573 Procedures’’ prior to any FAA final [Docket No. FDA–2015–F–4282] RIN 1120–AB69 regulatory action. BASF Corp.; Filing of Food Additive Infectious Disease Management: List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 Petition (Animal Use) Voluntary and Involuntary Testing Airspace, Incorporation by reference, AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, AGENCY: Bureau of Prisons, Justice. Navigation (air). HHS. ACTION: Proposed rule. The Proposed Amendment ACTION: Notice of petition. Accordingly, pursuant to the SUMMARY: In this document, the Bureau SUMMARY: The Food and Drug of Prisons proposes two minor revisions authority delegated to me, the Federal Administration (FDA) is announcing to its regulations on the management of Aviation Administration proposes to that BASF Corp. has filed a petition infectious diseases. One change would amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows: proposing that the food additive remove the requirement for HIV pre-test PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, regulations be amended to provide for counseling for inmates, because the B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR the safe use of sodium formate as a feed counseling requirement has become an TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND acidifier in poultry feed. obstacle to necessary testing. Inmates REPORTING POINTS DATES: The food additive petition was testing positive for HIV will continue to filed on October 15, 2015. receive HIV post-test counseling. The ■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: second change would alter language part 71 continues to read as follows: Chelsea Trull, Center for Veterinary regarding tuberculosis (TB) testing to Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40103, Medicine, Food and Drug clarify that it is testing for the TB 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, Administration, 7519 Standish Pl., infection, but not ‘‘skin testing.’’ This 1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. Rockville, MD 20855, 240–402–6729, would account for advances in medical chelsea.trull@fda.hhs.gov. technology that allow for newer testing § 71.1 [Amended] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the methods. ■ 2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.9Z, Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act DATES: Written comments must be Airspace Designations and Reporting (section 409(b)(5) (21 U.S.C. 348(b)(5))), submitted on or before January 25, 2016. Points, dated August 6, 2015, and notice is given that a food additive ADDRESSES: Rules Unit, Office of effective September 15, 2015, is petition (FAP 2293) has been filed by General Counsel, Bureau of Prisons, 320 amended as follows: BASF Corp., 100 Park Ave., Florham First Street NW., Washington, DC Park, NJ 07932. The petition proposes to 20534. Paragraph 6005 Class E Airspace Areas amend the food additive regulations in Extending Upward From 700 Feet or More FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 21 CFR part 573 Food Additives Above the Surface of the Earth. Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Rules Unit, Office of General Counsel, * * * * * Animals to provide for the safe use of Bureau of Prisons, phone (202) 353– sodium formate as a feed acidifier in 8214. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS ANM WA E5 Willapa Harbor Heliport, South Bend, WA [New] poultry feed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Willapa Harbor Heliport, WA The petitioner has claimed that this action is categorically excluded under Posting of Public Comments (Lat. 46°39′47″ N., long. 123°48′44″ W.) That airspace extending upward from 700 21 CFR 25.32(r) because it is of a type Please note that all comments feet above the surface within a 1.8-mile that does not individually or received are considered part of the radius of Willapa Harbor Heliport, and that cumulatively have a significant effect on public record and made available for airspace bounded by a line beginning at a the human environment. 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Document Created: 2015-12-14 14:08:55
Document Modified: 2015-12-14 14:08:55
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionProposed Rules
ActionNotice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
DatesComments must be received on or before January 8, 2016.
ContactSteve Haga, Federal Aviation Administration, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) 203-4563.
FR Citation80 FR 73152 
CFR AssociatedAirspace; Incorporation by Reference and Navigation (air)
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