81_FR_52521 81 FR 52369 - Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace, Blue Mesa, CO

81 FR 52369 - Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace, Blue Mesa, CO

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 152 (August 8, 2016)

Page Range52369-52370
FR Document2016-18676

This action proposes to amend Class E en route domestic airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface near the Blue Mesa VHF Omni-Directional Radio Range/Distance Measuring Equipment (VOR/DME), Blue Mesa, CO. The FAA has transitioned to a more accurate method of measuring, publishing, and charting airspace areas. This transition has revealed some small areas of uncharted uncontrolled airspace. The FAA found modification of these areas of uncontrolled airspace necessary to ensure the safety of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations and the efficient use of navigable airspace, including point-to-point off-airway clearances, and aircraft vectoring services.

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[FR Doc No: 2016-18676]


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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 152 / Monday, August 8, 2016 / 
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Docket No. FAA-2016-7043; Airspace Docket No. 16-ANM-6]


Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace, Blue Mesa, CO

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

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SUMMARY: This action proposes to amend Class E en route domestic 
airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface near the 
Blue Mesa VHF Omni-Directional Radio Range/Distance Measuring Equipment 
(VOR/DME), Blue Mesa, CO. The FAA has transitioned to a more accurate 
method of measuring, publishing, and charting airspace areas. This 
transition has revealed some small areas of uncharted uncontrolled 
airspace. The FAA found modification of these areas of uncontrolled 
airspace necessary to ensure the safety of Instrument Flight Rules 
(IFR) operations and the efficient use of navigable airspace, including 
point-to-point off-airway clearances, and aircraft vectoring services.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 22, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this proposal to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Docket Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590; telephone: 
1-800-647-5527, or (202) 366-9826. You must identify FAA Docket No. 
FAA-2016-7043; Airspace Docket No. 16-ANM-6, 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 Group, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; 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 
FAA Order 7400.9Z 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: Tom Clark, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center, 1601 
Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) 203-4511.

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 amend Class E airspace at Blue Mesa VOR/DME, Blue Mesa, CO.

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. Persons 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-2016-7043/
Airspace Docket No. 15-ANM-6.'' The postcard will be date/time stamped 
and returned to the commenter.
    All communications received 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 the 
comments received. A report summarizing each substantive public contact 
with FAA personnel concerned with this rulemaking will be filed in the 
docket.

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.regulation.gov.
    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.

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Availability and Summary of Documents Proposed for Incorporation by 
Reference

    This document proposes to 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 modifying Class E En route domestic 
airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface in the 
vicinity of the Blue Mesa VOR/DME, Blue Mesa, CO. One small airspace 
area northwest, near Montrose, CO, and one small airspace area 
southeast, near Trinidad, CO, both excluded from the current boundary, 
would be added for the safety and management of IFR operations, 
specifically point-to-point, en route operations outside of the 
established airway structure, and Air Traffic Control vectoring 
services.
    Class E airspace designations are published in paragraph 6006 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 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 6006 En Route Domestic Airspace Areas.

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ANM CO E6 Blue Mesa, CO [Amended]

Blue Mesa VOR/DME, CO
    (Lat. 38[deg]27'08'' N., long. 107[deg]02'23'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 1,200 feet above the surface 
within an area bounded by Lat. 35[deg]39'30'' N., long. 
107[deg]25'27'' W.; to Lat. 36[deg]14'38'' N., long. 107[deg]40'25'' 
W.; to Lat. 37[deg]16'00'' N., long. 108[deg]22'00'' W.; to Lat. 
37[deg]58'51'' N., long. 108[deg]22'29'' W.; to Lat. 39[deg]01'00'' 
N., long. 107[deg]47'00'' W.; to Lat. 39[deg]07'40'' N., long. 
107[deg]13'47'' W.; to Lat. 39[deg]11'48'' N., long. 106[deg]29'16'' 
W.; to Lat. 39[deg]40'23'' N., long. 103[deg]29'02'' W.; to Lat. 
36[deg]59'57'' N., long. 104[deg]18'04'' W.; to Lat. 36[deg]17'00'' 
N., long. 104[deg]14'00'' W.; to Lat. 36[deg]12'53'' N., long. 
104[deg]56'21'' W.; to Lat. 36[deg]13'34'' N., long. 105[deg]54'42'' 
W.; thence to the point of beginning.


    Issued in Seattle, Washington, on July 29, 2016.
Tracey Johnson,
Manager, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center.
[FR Doc. 2016-18676 Filed 8-5-16; 8:45 am]
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52369 Proposed Rules Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 152 Monday, August 8, 2016 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, supporting the views and suggestions contains notices to the public of the proposed except Federal holidays. The Docket presented are particularly helpful in issuance of rules and regulations. The Office (telephone 1–800–647–5527), is developing reasoned regulatory purpose of these notices is to give interested on the ground floor of the building at decisions on the proposal. Comments persons an opportunity to participate in the the above address. are specifically invited on the overall rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules. FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace regulatory, aeronautical, economic, Designations and Reporting Points, and environmental, and energy-related subsequent amendments can be viewed aspects of the proposal. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION online at http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/ Communications should identify both publications/. For further information, docket numbers and be submitted in Federal Aviation Administration you can contact the Airspace Policy triplicate to the address listed above. Group, Federal Aviation Persons wishing the FAA to 14 CFR Part 71 Administration, 800 Independence acknowledge receipt of their comments Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; on this notice must submit with those [Docket No. FAA–2016–7043; Airspace Docket No. 16–ANM–6] telephone: 202–267–8783. The Order is comments a self-addressed, stamped also available for inspection at the postcard on which the following Proposed Amendment of Class E National Archives and Records statement is made: ‘‘Comments to Airspace, Blue Mesa, CO Administration (NARA). For Docket No. FAA–2016–7043/Airspace information on the availability of FAA Docket No. 15–ANM–6.’’ The postcard AGENCY: Federal Aviation Order 7400.9Z at NARA, call 202–741– will be date/time stamped and returned Administration (FAA), DOT. 6030, or go to http://www.archives.gov/ to the commenter. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking federal_register/code_of_federal- All communications received before (NPRM). regulations/ibr_locations.html. the specified closing date for comments FAA Order 7400.9, Airspace will be considered before taking action SUMMARY: This action proposes to Designations and Reporting Points, is on the proposed rule. The proposal amend Class E en route domestic published yearly and effective on contained in this notice may be changed airspace extending upward from 1,200 September 15. in light of the comments received. A feet above the surface near the Blue report summarizing each substantive FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Mesa VHF Omni-Directional Radio public contact with FAA personnel Clark, Federal Aviation Administration, Range/Distance Measuring Equipment concerned with this rulemaking will be Operations Support Group, Western (VOR/DME), Blue Mesa, CO. The FAA filed in the docket. Service Center, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., has transitioned to a more accurate Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) Availability of NPRMs method of measuring, publishing, and 203–4511. charting airspace areas. This transition An electronic copy of this document has revealed some small areas of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: may be downloaded through the uncharted uncontrolled airspace. The Authority for This Rulemaking Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. FAA found modification of these areas Recently published rulemaking The FAA’s authority to issue rules of uncontrolled airspace necessary to documents can also be accessed through regarding aviation safety is found in ensure the safety of Instrument Flight the FAA’s Web page at http:// Title 49 of the United States Code. Rules (IFR) operations and the efficient www.regulation.gov. Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the use of navigable airspace, including You may review the public docket authority of the FAA Administrator. point-to-point off-airway clearances, containing the proposal, any comments Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, and aircraft vectoring services. received, and any final disposition in describes in more detail the scope of the DATES: Comments must be received on agency’s authority. This rulemaking is person in the Dockets Office (see the or before September 22, 2016. promulgated under the authority ADDRESSES section for the address and ADDRESSES: Send comments on this described in Subtitle VII, Part A, phone number) between 9:00 a.m. and proposal to the U.S. Department of Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Transportation, Docket Operations, 1200 section, the FAA is charged with except federal holidays. An informal New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building prescribing regulations to assign the use docket may also be examined during Ground Floor, Room W12–140, of airspace necessary to ensure the normal business hours at the Northwest Washington, DC 20590; telephone: 1– safety of aircraft and the efficient use of Mountain Regional Office of the Federal 800–647–5527, or (202) 366–9826. You airspace. This regulation is within the Aviation Administration, Air Traffic must identify FAA Docket No. FAA– scope of that authority as it would Organization, Western Service Center, 2016–7043; Airspace Docket No. 16– amend Class E airspace at Blue Mesa Operations Support Group, 1601 Lind ANM–6, at the beginning of your Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057. ehiers on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS VOR/DME, Blue Mesa, CO. comments. You may also submit Persons interested in being placed on comments through the Internet at http:// Comments Invited a mailing list for future NPRMs should www.regulations.gov. You may review Interested parties are invited to contact the FAA’s Office of Rulemaking, the public docket containing the participate in this proposed rulemaking (202) 267–9677, for a copy of Advisory proposal, any comments received, and by submitting such written data, views, Circular No. 11–2A, Notice of Proposed any final disposition in person in the or arguments, as they may desire. 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52370 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 152 / Monday, August 8, 2016 / Proposed Rules Availability and Summary of Environmental Review DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Documents Proposed for Incorporation HUMAN SERVICES by Reference This proposal will be subject to an environmental analysis in accordance Food and Drug Administration This document proposes to amend with FAA Order 1050.1F, FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace ‘‘Environmental Impacts: Policies and 21 CFR Parts 175, 176, 177, and 178 Designations and Reporting Points, Procedures’’ prior to any FAA final [Docket No. FDA–2016–F–1253] dated August 6, 2015, and effective regulatory action. September 15, 2015. FAA Order Breast Cancer Fund, Center for List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 7400.9Z is publicly available as listed in Environmental Health, Center for Food the ADDRESSES section of this document. Airspace, Incorporation by reference, Safety, Center for Science in the Public FAA Order 7400.9Z lists Class A, B, C, Navigation (air). Interest, Clean Water Action, D, and E airspace areas, air traffic Consumer Federation of America, service routes, and reporting points. The Proposed Amendment Earthjustice, Environmental Defense The Proposal Accordingly, pursuant to the Fund, Improving Kids’ Environment, authority delegated to me, the Federal Learning Disabilities Association of The FAA is proposing an amendment Aviation Administration proposes to America, and Natural Resources to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows: Defense Council; Filing of Food (14 CFR) Part 71 by modifying Class E Additive Petition; Reopening of En route domestic airspace extending PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, Comment Period upward from 1,200 feet above the B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, surface in the vicinity of the Blue Mesa TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND HHS. VOR/DME, Blue Mesa, CO. One small REPORTING POINTS Notice of petition; reopening of ACTION: airspace area northwest, near Montrose, comment period. CO, and one small airspace area ■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR southeast, near Trinidad, CO, both part 71 continues to read as follows: SUMMARY: The Food and Drug excluded from the current boundary, Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40103, Administration (FDA or we) is would be added for the safety and 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, reopening the comment period for the management of IFR operations, 1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. notice of filing that appeared in the specifically point-to-point, en route Federal Register of May 20, 2016 (81 FR operations outside of the established § 71.1 [Amended] 31877). In the notice, we requested airway structure, and Air Traffic Control ■ 2. The incorporation by reference in comments on a filed food additive vectoring services. 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.9Z, petition (FAP 6B4815), submitted by the Class E airspace designations are Airspace Designations and Reporting Breast Cancer Fund, Center for published in paragraph 6006 of FAA Points, dated August 6, 2015, and Environmental Health, Center for Food Order 7400.9Z, dated August 6, 2015, effective September 15, 2015, is Safety, Center for Science In The Public and effective September 15, 2015, which amended as follows: Interest, Clean Water Action, Consumer is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR Federation of America, Earthjustice, 71.1. The Class E airspace designations Paragraph 6006 En Route Domestic Environmental Defense Fund, listed in this document will be Airspace Areas. Improving Kids’ Environment, Learning published subsequently in the Order. * * * * * Disabilities Association of America, and Natural Resources Defense Council, Regulatory Notices and Analyses ANM CO E6 Blue Mesa, CO [Amended] proposing that we amend and/or revoke Blue Mesa VOR/DME, CO specified regulations to no longer The FAA has determined that this (Lat. 38°27′08″ N., long. 107°02′23″ W.) provide for the food contact use of regulation only involves an established That airspace extending upward from specified ortho-phthalates. We are body of technical regulations for which 1,200 feet above the surface within an area taking this action in response to a frequent and routine amendments are bounded by Lat. 35°39′30″ N., long. request for an extension to allow necessary to keep them operationally 107°25′27″ W.; to Lat. 36°14′38″ N., long. interested persons additional time to current, is non-controversial and 107°40′25″ W.; to Lat. 37°16′00″ N., long. submit comments. unlikely to result in adverse or negative 108°22′00″ W.; to Lat. 37°58′51″ N., long. DATES: FDA is reopening the comment comments. It, therefore: (1) Is not a 108°22′29″ W.; to Lat. 39°01′00″ N., long. 107°47′00″ W.; to Lat. 39°07′40″ N., long. period on the notice of filing of a food ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ under additive petition published on May 20, 107°13′47″ W.; to Lat. 39°11′48″ N., long. Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a 2016 (81 FR 31877). Submit either 106°29′16″ W.; to Lat. 39°40′23″ N., long. ‘‘significant rule’’ under DOT 103°29′02″ W.; to Lat. 36°59′57″ N., long. electronic or written comments by Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 104°18′04″ W.; to Lat. 36°17′00″ N., long. September 19, 2016. FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) 104°14′00″ W.; to Lat. 36°12′53″ N., long. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments does not warrant preparation of a 104°56′21″ W.; to Lat. 36°13′34″ N., long. as follows: regulatory evaluation as the anticipated 105°54′42″ W.; thence to the point of impact is so minimal. Since this is a beginning. Electronic Submissions routine matter that will only affect air ehiers on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS Submit electronic comments in the traffic procedures and air navigation, it Issued in Seattle, Washington, on July 29, following way: is certified that this rule, when 2016. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// promulgated, would not have a Tracey Johnson, www.regulations.gov. Follow the significant economic impact on a Manager, Operations Support Group, Western instructions for submitting comments. substantial number of small entities Service Center. Comments submitted electronically, under the criteria of the Regulatory [FR Doc. 2016–18676 Filed 8–5–16; 8:45 am] including attachments, to http:// Flexibility Act. BILLING CODE 4910–13–P www.regulations.gov will be posted to VerDate Sep<11>2014 13:56 Aug 05, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\08AUP1.SGM 08AUP1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionProposed Rules
ActionNotice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
DatesComments must be received on or before September 22, 2016.
ContactTom Clark, Federal Aviation Administration, Operations Support Group, Western Service Center, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057; telephone (425) 203-4511.
FR Citation81 FR 52369 
CFR AssociatedAirspace; Incorporation by Reference and Navigation (air)
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