81_FR_53246 81 FR 53091 - Proposed Amendment of Class D and E Airspace for the Following Texas Towns; Houston Sugar Land, TX; Alice, TX; Bay City, TX; Brenham, TX; Burnet, TX; Falfurrias, TX; Graford, TX; and Hamilton, TX, and Proposed Revocation of Class E Airspace; Austin Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, TX

81 FR 53091 - Proposed Amendment of Class D and E Airspace for the Following Texas Towns; Houston Sugar Land, TX; Alice, TX; Bay City, TX; Brenham, TX; Burnet, TX; Falfurrias, TX; Graford, TX; and Hamilton, TX, and Proposed Revocation of Class E Airspace; Austin Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, TX

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 155 (August 11, 2016)

Page Range53091-53093
FR Document2016-18769

This action proposes to modify Class D and Class E surface area airspace at Sugar Land Regional Airport, Houston Sugar Land, TX. The FAA also proposes to modify Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Kingsville Kleberg County Airport, Alice, TX; Bay City Municipal Airport, Bay City, TX; Brenham Municipal Airport, Brenham, TX; Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field, Burnet, TX; Brooks County Airport, Falfurrias, TX; Possum Kingdom Airport, Graford, TX; and Hamilton Municipal Airport, Hamilton, TX. Decommissioning of non-directional radio beacons (NDBs), cancellation of NDB approaches, and implementation of area navigation (RNAV) procedures have made this action necessary for the safety and management of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations at these airports. This action also proposes to remove Class E airspace at Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, Austin, TX, as controlled airspace is no longer needed. Additionally, the geographic coordinates at Bay City Municipal Airport, Brenham Municipal Airport, and Brooks County Airport, as well as the name of Sugar Land Regional Airport (formerly Sugar Land Municipal/Hull Field) would be adjusted to coincide with the FAA's aeronautical database.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Docket No. FAA-2016-8503; Airspace Docket No. 16-ASW-11]


Proposed Amendment of Class D and E Airspace for the Following 
Texas Towns; Houston Sugar Land, TX; Alice, TX; Bay City, TX; Brenham, 
TX; Burnet, TX; Falfurrias, TX; Graford, TX; and Hamilton, TX, and 
Proposed Revocation of Class E Airspace; Austin Horseshoe Bay Resort 
Airport, TX

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

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SUMMARY: This action proposes to modify Class D and Class E surface 
area airspace at Sugar Land Regional Airport, Houston Sugar Land, TX. 
The FAA also proposes to modify Class E airspace extending upward from 
700 feet above the surface at Kingsville Kleberg County Airport, Alice, 
TX; Bay City Municipal Airport, Bay City, TX; Brenham Municipal 
Airport, Brenham, TX; Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field, 
Burnet, TX; Brooks County Airport, Falfurrias, TX; Possum Kingdom 
Airport, Graford, TX; and Hamilton Municipal Airport, Hamilton, TX. 
Decommissioning of non-directional radio beacons (NDBs), cancellation 
of NDB approaches, and implementation of area navigation (RNAV) 
procedures have made this action necessary for the safety and 
management of Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations at these 
airports. This action also proposes to remove Class E airspace at 
Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, Austin, TX, as controlled airspace is no 
longer needed. Additionally, the geographic coordinates at Bay City 
Municipal Airport, Brenham Municipal Airport, and Brooks County 
Airport, as well as the name of Sugar Land Regional Airport (formerly 
Sugar Land Municipal/Hull Field) would be adjusted to coincide with the 
FAA's aeronautical database.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 26, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this proposal to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Docket Operations, West Building Ground Floor, Room 
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 20590; telephone 
(202) 366-9826, or 1-800-647-5527. You must identify FAA Docket No. 
FAA-2016-8503; Airspace Docket No. 16-ASW-11, 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.
    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: Jeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Operations Support Group, Central Service Center, 10101 
Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, 76177; telephone (817) 222-5711.

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 D airspace and Class E surface area airspace at 
Sugar Land Regional Airport, Houston Sugar Land, TX; amend Class E 
airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface at Kingsville 
Kleberg County Airport, Alice, TX; Bay City Municipal Airport, Bay 
City, TX; Brenham Municipal Airport, Brenham, TX; Burnet Municipal 
Airport-Kate Craddock Field, Burnet, TX; Brooks County Airport, 
Falfurrias, TX; Possum Kingdom Airport, Graford, TX; and Hamilton 
Municipal Airport, Hamilton, TX; and remove Class E at Horseshoe Bay 
Resort Airport, Austin, TX.

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-2016-8503/
Airspace Docket No. 16-ASW-11.'' 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

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the FAA's Web page 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 (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 Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic 
Organization, Central Service Center, Operations Support Group, 10101 
Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, 76177.

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 D airspace and Class E surface area airspace within a 5.8-
mile radius of Sugar Land Regional Airport, Houston Sugar Land, TX, and 
updating the name of airport to coincide with the FAA's aeronautical 
database;
    Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.6-mile radius of Kingsville, Kleberg County Airport, Alice, 
TX, with an extension northwest of the airport from the 6.6-mile radius 
to 10.3 miles;
    Within a 6.5-mile radius of Bay City Municipal Airport, Bay City, 
TX, and updating the geographic coordinates of the airport to coincide 
with the FAAs aeronautical database;
    Within a 6.5-mile radius of Brenham Municipal Airport, Brenham TX, 
and updating the geographic coordinates of the airport to coincide with 
the FAAs aeronautical database;
    Within a 6.6-mile radius of the Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate 
Craddock Field, Burnet, TX;
    Within a 6.6-mile radius of Brooks County Airport, Falfurrias, TX, 
and updating the geographic coordinates of the airport to coincide with 
the FAAs aeronautical databases;
    Within a 7.0-mile radius of Possum Kingdom Airport, Graford, TX, 
with extensions to the northeast of the airport from the 7.0-mile 
radius to 10.9 miles, and to the southwest of the airport from the 7.0-
mile radius to 10.9 miles;
    And within a 6.5-mile radius of Hamilton Municipal Airport, 
Hamilton, TX, with extensions to the north of the airport from the 6.5-
mile radius to 9.4 miles, and to the south of the airport from the 6.5-
mile radius to 10.3 miles;
    The Class E airspace area extending upward from 700 feet above the 
surface within a 6.5-mile radius of Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, 
Austin Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, TX, would be removed as the SIAPs 
have been cancelled and controlled airspace is no longer needed.
    Airspace reconfiguration is necessary due to the decommissioning of 
NDBs, cancellation of NDB approaches, and implementation of RNAV 
procedures at the above airports. Controlled airspace is necessary for 
the safety and management of the standard instrument approach 
procedures for IFR operations at the airports.
    Class D and E airspace designations are published in paragraph 
5000, 6002, and 6005, respectively, 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

0
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 5000 Class D Airspace.

* * * * *

ASW TX D Houston Sugar Land, TX [Amended]

Sugar Land, Sugar Land Regional Airport, TX
    (Lat. 29[deg]37'20'' N., long. 95[deg]39'24'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from the surface to and including 
2,600 feet MSL within a 5.8-mile radius of Sugar Land Regional 
Airport. This Class D airspace area is effective during the specific 
dates and times established in advance by a Notice to Airmen. The 
effective date and time will thereafter be continuously published in 
the Airport/Facility Directory.
* * * * *

Paragraph 6002 Class E Airspace Designated as Surface Areas.

* * * * *

ASW TX E2 Houston Sugar Land, TX [Amended]

Sugar Land, Sugar Land Regional Airport, TX
    (Lat. 29[deg]37'20'' N., long. 95[deg]39'24'' W.)

    Within a 5.8-mile radius of Sugar Land Regional Airport. This 
Class E airspace is effective during the specific dates and times 
established in advance by a Notice to Airmen. The effective date and 
time will thereafter be continuously published in the Airport/
Facility Directory.
* * * * *

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

* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Alice, TX [Amended]

Alice International Airport, TX
    (Lat. 27[deg]44'27'' N., long. 98[deg]01'37'' W.)
Orange Grove NALF, TX

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    (Lat. 27[deg]53'49'' N., long. 98[deg]02'37'' W.)
Navy Orange Grove TACAN
    (Lat. 27[deg]53'43'' N., long. 98[deg]02'33'' W.)
Kingsville, Kleberg County Airport, TX
    (Lat. 27[deg]33'03'' N., long. 98[deg]01'51'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 7.5-mile radius of Alice International Airport, and within 
2 miles each side of the 135[deg] bearing from Alice International 
Airport extending from the 7.5-mile radius to 9.8 miles southeast of 
the airport, and within a 7.2-mile radius of the Orange Grove NALF, 
and within 1.6 miles each side of the 129[deg] radial of the Navy 
Orange Grove TACAN extending from the 7.2-mile radius of the Orange 
Grove NALF to 11 miles southeast of the Orange Grove NALF, and 
within 1.5 miles each side of the 320[deg] radial of the Navy Orange 
Grove TACAN extending from the 7.2-mile radius of the Orange Grove 
NALF to 9.7 miles northwest of the Orange Grove NALF, and within a 
6.6-mile radius of Kleberg County Airport, and within 4.0 miles each 
side of the 320[deg] bearing from the Kleberg County Airport from 
the 6.6-mile radius to 10.3 miles northwest of the airport, 
excluding that airspace within the Corpus Christi, TX, Class E 
airspace area.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Austin, Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, TX [Removed]

* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Bay City, TX [Amended]

Bay City Municipal Airport, TX
    (Lat. 28[deg]58'24'' N., long. 95[deg]51'48'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.5-mile radius of Bay City Municipal Airport.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Brenham, TX [Amended]

Brenham Municipal Airport, TX
    (Lat. 30[deg]13'11'' N., long. 96[deg]22'28'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.5-mile radius of Brenham Municipal Airport.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Burnet, TX [Amended]

Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field, TX
    (Lat. 30[deg]44'20'' N., long. 98[deg]14'19'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.6-mile radius of Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock 
Field.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Falfurrias, TX [Amended]

Brooks County Airport, TX
    (Lat. 27[deg]12'22'' N., long. 98[deg]07'16'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.6-mile radius of Brooks County Airport.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Graford, TX [Amended]

Possum Kingdom Airport, TX
    (Lat. 32[deg]55'24'' N., long. 98[deg]26'13'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 7.0-mile radius of Possum Kingdom Airport and within 4 
miles each side of the 031[deg] bearing from the airport extending 
from the 7.0-mile radius to 10.9 miles northeast of the airport, and 
within 4 miles each side of the 210[deg] bearing from the airport 
extending from the 7.0-mile radius to 10.9 miles southwest of the 
airport.
* * * * *

ASW TX E5 Hamilton, TX [Amended]

Hamilton Municipal Airport, TX
    (Lat. 31[deg]39'57'' N., long. 98[deg]08'55'' W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 6.5-mile radius of Hamilton Municipal Airport, and within 2 
miles each side of the 009[deg] bearing from the airport extending 
from the 6.5-mile radius to 9.4 miles north of the airport, and 
within 2 miles each side of the 189[deg] bearing from the airport 
extending from the 6.5-mile radius to 10.3 miles south of the 
airport.

    Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 1, 2016.
Walter Tweedy,
Acting Manager, Operations Support Group, ATO Central Service Center.
[FR Doc. 2016-18769 Filed 8-10-16; 8:45 am]
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53091 Proposed Rules Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 155 Thursday, August 11, 2016 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER Airport (formerly Sugar Land describes in more detail the scope of the contains notices to the public of the proposed Municipal/Hull Field) would be agency’s authority. This rulemaking is issuance of rules and regulations. The adjusted to coincide with the FAA’s promulgated under the authority purpose of these notices is to give interested aeronautical database. described in Subtitle VII, Part, A, persons an opportunity to participate in the Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that DATES: Comments must be received on rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules. or before September 26, 2016. section, the FAA is charged with ADDRESSES: Send comments on this prescribing regulations to assign the use proposal to the U.S. Department of of airspace necessary to ensure the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Transportation, Docket Operations, safety of aircraft and the efficient use of West Building Ground Floor, Room airspace. This regulation is within the Federal Aviation Administration W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., scope of that authority as it would Washington, DC, 20590; telephone (202) amend Class D airspace and Class E 14 CFR Part 71 366–9826, or 1–800–647–5527. You surface area airspace at Sugar Land [Docket No. FAA–2016–8503; Airspace must identify FAA Docket No. FAA– Regional Airport, Houston Sugar Land, Docket No. 16–ASW–11] 2016–8503; Airspace Docket No. 16– TX; amend Class E airspace extending ASW–11, at the beginning of your upward from 700 feet above the surface Proposed Amendment of Class D and comments. You may also submit at Kingsville Kleberg County Airport, E Airspace for the Following Texas comments through the Internet at http:// Alice, TX; Bay City Municipal Airport, Towns; Houston Sugar Land, TX; www.regulations.gov. You may review Bay City, TX; Brenham Municipal Alice, TX; Bay City, TX; Brenham, TX; the public docket containing the Airport, Brenham, TX; Burnet Burnet, TX; Falfurrias, TX; Graford, TX; proposal, any comments received, and Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field, and Hamilton, TX, and Proposed any final disposition in person in the Burnet, TX; Brooks County Airport, Revocation of Class E Airspace; Dockets Office between 9:00 a.m. and Falfurrias, TX; Possum Kingdom Austin Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Airport, Graford, TX; and Hamilton TX except Federal holidays. Municipal Airport, Hamilton, TX; and FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace remove Class E at Horseshoe Bay Resort AGENCY: Federal Aviation Designations and Reporting Points, and Airport, Austin, TX. Administration (FAA), DOT. subsequent amendments can be viewed ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking Comments Invited online at http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/ (NPRM). publications/. For further information, Interested parties are invited to SUMMARY: This action proposes to you can contact the Airspace Policy participate in this proposed rulemaking modify Class D and Class E surface area Group, Federal Aviation by submitting such written data, views, airspace at Sugar Land Regional Airport, Administration, 800 Independence or arguments, as they may desire. Houston Sugar Land, TX. The FAA also Avenue SW., Washington, DC, 20591; Comments that provide the factual basis proposes to modify Class E airspace telephone: 202–267–8783. The Order is supporting the views and suggestions extending upward from 700 feet above also available for inspection at the presented are particularly helpful in the surface at Kingsville Kleberg County National Archives and Records developing reasoned regulatory Airport, Alice, TX; Bay City Municipal Administration (NARA). For decisions on the proposal. Comments Airport, Bay City, TX; Brenham information on the availability of FAA are specifically invited on the overall Municipal Airport, Brenham, TX; Order 7400.9Z at NARA, call 202–741– regulatory, aeronautical, economic, Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate 6030, or go to http://www.archives.gov/ environmental, and energy-related Craddock Field, Burnet, TX; Brooks federal_register/code_of_federal- aspects of the proposal. County Airport, Falfurrias, TX; Possum regulations/ibr_locations.html. Communications should identify both Kingdom Airport, Graford, TX; and FAA Order 7400.9, Airspace docket numbers and be submitted in Hamilton Municipal Airport, Hamilton, Designations and Reporting Points, is triplicate to the address listed above. TX. Decommissioning of non- published yearly and effective on Commenters wishing the FAA to directional radio beacons (NDBs), September 15. acknowledge receipt of their comments cancellation of NDB approaches, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: on this notice must submit with those implementation of area navigation Jeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation comments a self-addressed, stamped (RNAV) procedures have made this Administration, Operations Support postcard on which the following action necessary for the safety and Group, Central Service Center, 10101 statement is made: ‘‘Comments to management of Instrument Flight Rules Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, Docket No. FAA–2016–8503/Airspace (IFR) operations at these airports. This 76177; telephone (817) 222–5711. Docket No. 16–ASW–11.’’ The postcard action also proposes to remove Class E will be date/time stamped and returned sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with PROPOSALS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: airspace at Horseshoe Bay Resort to the commenter. Airport, Austin, TX, as controlled Authority for This Rulemaking Availability of NPRMs airspace is no longer needed. The FAA’s authority to issue rules Additionally, the geographic regarding aviation safety is found in An electronic copy of this document coordinates at Bay City Municipal Title 49 of the United States Code. may be downloaded through the Airport, Brenham Municipal Airport, Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. and Brooks County Airport, as well as authority of the FAA Administrator. Recently published rulemaking the name of Sugar Land Regional Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, documents can also be accessed through VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:14 Aug 10, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\11AUP1.SGM 11AUP1

53092 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 155 / Thursday, August 11, 2016 / Proposed Rules the FAA’s Web page at http:// from the 7.0-mile radius to 10.9 miles, List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 www.regulations.gov. and to the southwest of the airport from Airspace, Incorporation by reference, You may review the public docket the 7.0-mile radius to 10.9 miles; Navigation (air). containing the proposal, any comments And within a 6.5-mile radius of received, and any final disposition in Hamilton Municipal Airport, Hamilton, The Proposed Amendment person in the Dockets Office (see the TX, with extensions to the north of the Accordingly, pursuant to the ADDRESSES section for the address and airport from the 6.5-mile radius to 9.4 authority delegated to me, the Federal phone number) between 9:00 a.m. and miles, and to the south of the airport Aviation Administration proposes to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, from the 6.5-mile radius to 10.3 miles; amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows: except federal holidays. An informal The Class E airspace area extending docket may also be examined during upward from 700 feet above the surface PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, normal business hours at the Federal within a 6.5-mile radius of Horseshoe B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Bay Resort Airport, Austin Horseshoe TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND Organization, Central Service Center, Bay Resort Airport, TX, would be REPORTING POINTS Operations Support Group, 10101 removed as the SIAPs have been Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, cancelled and controlled airspace is no ■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR 76177. longer needed. part 71 continues to read as follows: Airspace reconfiguration is necessary Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g); 40103, Availability and Summary of due to the decommissioning of NDBs, 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, Documents Proposed for Incorporation cancellation of NDB approaches, and 1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. by Reference implementation of RNAV procedures at the above airports. Controlled airspace § 71.1 [Amended] This document proposes to amend FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace is necessary for the safety and ■ 2. The incorporation by reference in Designations and Reporting Points, management of the standard instrument 14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.9Z, dated August 6, 2015, and effective approach procedures for IFR operations Airspace Designations and Reporting September 15, 2015. FAA Order at the airports. Points, dated August 6, 2015, and 7400.9Z is publicly available as listed in Class D and E airspace designations effective September 15, 2015, is the ADDRESSES section of this document. are published in paragraph 5000, 6002, amended as follows: FAA Order 7400.9Z lists Class A, B, C, and 6005, respectively, of FAA Order Paragraph 5000 Class D Airspace. D, and E airspace areas, air traffic 7400.9Z, dated August 6, 2015, and * * * * * service routes, and reporting points. effective September 15, 2015, which is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR ASW TX D Houston Sugar Land, TX The Proposal 71.1. The Class E airspace designations [Amended] The FAA is proposing an amendment listed in this document will be Sugar Land, Sugar Land Regional Airport, TX to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations published subsequently in the Order. (Lat. 29°37′20″ N., long. 95°39′24″ W.) (14 CFR) Part 71 by modifying: That airspace extending upward from the Regulatory Notices and Analyses surface to and including 2,600 feet MSL Class D airspace and Class E surface area airspace within a 5.8-mile radius of The FAA has determined that this within a 5.8-mile radius of Sugar Land regulation only involves an established Regional Airport. This Class D airspace area Sugar Land Regional Airport, Houston body of technical regulations for which is effective during the specific dates and Sugar Land, TX, and updating the name times established in advance by a Notice to of airport to coincide with the FAA’s frequent and routine amendments are Airmen. The effective date and time will aeronautical database; necessary to keep them operationally thereafter be continuously published in the Class E airspace extending upward current, is non-controversial and Airport/Facility Directory. from 700 feet above the surface within unlikely to result in adverse or negative * * * * * a 6.6-mile radius of Kingsville, Kleberg comments. It, therefore: (1) Is not a County Airport, Alice, TX, with an ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ under Paragraph 6002 Class E Airspace extension northwest of the airport from Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a Designated as Surface Areas. the 6.6-mile radius to 10.3 miles; ‘‘significant rule’’ under DOT * * * * * Within a 6.5-mile radius of Bay City Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 ASW TX E2 Houston Sugar Land, TX Municipal Airport, Bay City, TX, and FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) [Amended] updating the geographic coordinates of does not warrant preparation of a Sugar Land, Sugar Land Regional Airport, TX the airport to coincide with the FAAs regulatory evaluation as the anticipated (Lat. 29°37′20″ N., long. 95°39′24″ W.) aeronautical database; impact is so minimal. Since this is a Within a 5.8-mile radius of Sugar Land Within a 6.5-mile radius of Brenham routine matter that will only affect air Regional Airport. This Class E airspace is Municipal Airport, Brenham TX, and traffic procedures and air navigation, it effective during the specific dates and times updating the geographic coordinates of is certified that this rule, when established in advance by a Notice to the airport to coincide with the FAAs promulgated, would not have a Airmen. The effective date and time will aeronautical database; significant economic impact on a thereafter be continuously published in the Within a 6.6-mile radius of the Burnet substantial number of small entities Airport/Facility Directory. Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Field, under the criteria of the Regulatory * * * * * Burnet, TX; sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with PROPOSALS Flexibility Act. Paragraph 6005 Class E Airspace Areas Within a 6.6-mile radius of Brooks Extending Upward From 700 Feet or More County Airport, Falfurrias, TX, and Environmental Review Above the Surface of the Earth. updating the geographic coordinates of This proposal will be subject to an environmental analysis in accordance * * * * * the airport to coincide with the FAAs aeronautical databases; with FAA Order 1050.1F, ASW TX E5 Alice, TX [Amended] Within a 7.0-mile radius of Possum ‘‘Environmental Impacts: Policies and Alice International Airport, TX Kingdom Airport, Graford, TX, with Procedures’’ prior to any FAA final (Lat. 27°44′27″ N., long. 98°01′37″ W.) extensions to the northeast of the airport regulatory action. Orange Grove NALF, TX VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:14 Aug 10, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\11AUP1.SGM 11AUP1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 155 / Thursday, August 11, 2016 / Proposed Rules 53093 (Lat. 27°53′49″ N., long. 98°02′37″ W.) radius of Possum Kingdom Airport and safety and management of Instrument Navy Orange Grove TACAN within 4 miles each side of the 031° bearing Flight Rules (IFR) operations at the (Lat. 27°53′43″ N., long. 98°02′33″ W.) from the airport extending from the 7.0-mile above airports. This action also Kingsville, Kleberg County Airport, TX radius to 10.9 miles northeast of the airport, proposes to remove Class E surface area (Lat. 27°33′03″ N., long. 98°01′51″ W.) and within 4 miles each side of the 210° bearing from the airport extending from the airspace at Wausau Municipal Airport That airspace extending upward from 700 (Wausau Downtown Airport), Wausau, feet above the surface within a 7.5-mile 7.0-mile radius to 10.9 miles southwest of the radius of Alice International Airport, and airport. WI, as a review has determined that the within 2 miles each side of the 135° bearing * * * * * airport no longer meets the from Alice International Airport extending requirements for this airspace. from the 7.5-mile radius to 9.8 miles ASW TX E5 Hamilton, TX [Amended] Additionally, the geographic southeast of the airport, and within a 7.2- Hamilton Municipal Airport, TX coordinates at Langlade County Airport, mile radius of the Orange Grove NALF, and (Lat. 31°39′57″ N., long. 98°08′55″ W.) John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport, within 1.6 miles each side of the 129° radial That airspace extending upward from 700 Cumberland Municipal Airport, Eagle of the Navy Orange Grove TACAN extending feet above the surface within a 6.5-mile River Union Airport, and Wausau from the 7.2-mile radius of the Orange Grove radius of Hamilton Municipal Airport, and Downtown Airport (formerly Wausau NALF to 11 miles southeast of the Orange within 2 miles each side of the 009° bearing Grove NALF, and within 1.5 miles each side from the airport extending from the 6.5-mile Municipal Airport) would be adjusted to of the 320° radial of the Navy Orange Grove radius to 9.4 miles north of the airport, and coincide with the FAAs aeronautical TACAN extending from the 7.2-mile radius within 2 miles each side of the 189° bearing database. of the Orange Grove NALF to 9.7 miles from the airport extending from the 6.5-mile DATES: Comments must be received on northwest of the Orange Grove NALF, and radius to 10.3 miles south of the airport. or before September 26, 2016. within a 6.6-mile radius of Kleberg County Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 1, ADDRESSES: Send comments on this Airport, and within 4.0 miles each side of the 2016. 320° bearing from the Kleberg County Airport proposal to the U.S. Department of from the 6.6-mile radius to 10.3 miles Walter Tweedy, Transportation, Docket Operations, northwest of the airport, excluding that Acting Manager, Operations Support Group, West Building Ground Floor, Room airspace within the Corpus Christi, TX, Class ATO Central Service Center. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., E airspace area. [FR Doc. 2016–18769 Filed 8–10–16; 8:45 am] Washington, DC 20590; telephone (202) * * * * * BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 366–9826, or 1–800–647–5527. You ASW TX E5 Austin, Horseshoe Bay Resort must identify FAA Docket No. FAA– Airport, TX [Removed] 2016–8557; Airspace Docket No. 16– DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AGL–17, at the beginning of your * * * * * comments. You may also submit ASW TX E5 Bay City, TX [Amended] Federal Aviation Administration comments through the Internet at http:// Bay City Municipal Airport, TX www.regulations.gov. You may review (Lat. 28°58′24″ N., long. 95°51′48″ W.) 14 CFR Part 71 the public docket containing the That airspace extending upward from 700 [Docket No. FAA–2016–8557; Airspace proposal, any comments received, and feet above the surface within a 6.5-mile Docket No. 16–AGL–17] any final disposition in person in the radius of Bay City Municipal Airport. Dockets Office between 9:00 a.m. and * * * * * Proposed Amendment of Class E 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Airspace for the Following Wisconsin except Federal holidays. ASW TX E5 Brenham, TX [Amended] Towns; Antigo, WI; Ashland, WI; Black FAA Order 7400.9Z, Airspace Brenham Municipal Airport, TX River Falls, WI; Cable Union, WI; Designations and Reporting Points, and (Lat. 30°13′11″ N., long. 96°22′28″ W.) Cumberland, WI; Eagle River, WI; subsequent amendments can be viewed That airspace extending upward from 700 Hayward, WI; and Wausau, WI, and online at http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/ feet above the surface within a 6.5-mile Proposed Revocation of Class E publications/. For further information, radius of Brenham Municipal Airport. Airspace; Wausau, WI you can contact the Airspace Policy * * * * * Group, Federal Aviation AGENCY: Federal Aviation ASW TX E5 Burnet, TX [Amended] Administration (FAA), DOT. Administration, 800 Independence Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate Craddock Avenue SW., Washington, DC, 20591; ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking Field, TX telephone: 202–267–8783. The Order is (NPRM). (Lat. 30°44′20″ N., long. 98°14′19″ W.) also available for inspection at the That airspace extending upward from 700 SUMMARY: This action proposes to National Archives and Records feet above the surface within a 6.6-mile modify Class E airspace extending Administration (NARA). For radius of Burnet Municipal Airport-Kate upward from 700 feet above the surface information on the availability of FAA Craddock Field. at Langlade County Airport, Antigo, WI; Order 7400.9Z at NARA, call 202–741– * * * * * John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport, 6030, or go to http://www.archives.gov/ Ashland, WI; Black River Falls Area federal_register/code_of_federal- ASW TX E5 Falfurrias, TX [Amended] Airport, Black River Falls, WI; Cable regulations/ibr_locations.html. Brooks County Airport, TX FAA Order 7400.9, Airspace (Lat. 27°12′22″ N., long. 98°07′16″ W.) Union Airport, Cable Union, WI; Cumberland Municipal Airport, Designations and Reporting Points, is That airspace extending upward from 700 published yearly and effective on Cumberland, WI; Eagle River Union sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with PROPOSALS feet above the surface within a 6.6-mile September 15. radius of Brooks County Airport. Airport, Eagle River, WI; Sawyer County Airport, Hayward, WI; and Wausau FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: * * * * * Jeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation Downtown Airport, Wausau, WI. ASW TX E5 Graford, TX [Amended] Decommissioning of non-directional Administration, Operations Support Possum Kingdom Airport, TX radio beacon (NDB), cancellation of Group, Central Service Center, 10101 (Lat. 32°55′24″ N., long. 98°26′13″ W.) NDB approaches, and implementation Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, That airspace extending upward from 700 of area navigation (RNAV) procedures 76177; telephone (817) 222–5711. feet above the surface within a 7.0-mile have made this action necessary for the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:14 Aug 10, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\11AUP1.SGM 11AUP1


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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 September 26, 2016.
ContactJeffrey Claypool, Federal Aviation Administration, Operations Support Group, Central Service Center, 10101 Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, 76177; telephone (817) 222-5711.
FR Citation81 FR 53091 
CFR AssociatedAirspace; Incorporation by Reference and Navigation (air)
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