[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1653-1654]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-581]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Approval of Noise Compatibility Program, Tulsa International
Airport, Tulsa, Oklahoma
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its
findings on the noise compatibility program submitted by the Tulsa
Airports Improvement Trust for Tulsa International Airport under the
provisions of Title 49, USC, Chapter 475 and CFR part 150. These
findings are made in recognition of the description of Federal and
nonfederal responsibilities in Senate Report No. 96-52 (1980). On June
16, 1999, the FAA determined that the noise exposure maps submitted by
the Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust for Tulsa International Airport
under Part 150 were in compliance with applicable requirements. On
December 9, 1999, the Administrator approved the noise compatibility
program. All of the recommendations of the program were approved.
EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date of the FAA's approval of the Tulsa
International Airport noise compatibility program is December 9, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Timothy L. Tandy, Department of
Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 2601 Meacham
Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas, 76137, (817) 222-5635. Documents
reflecting this FAA action may be reviewed at this same location.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA has given
its overall approval to the noise compatibility program for Tulsa
International Airport, effective December 9, 1999.
Under Title 49 USC, section 47504 (hereinafter referred to as
``Title 49''), an airport operator who has previously submitted a noise
exposure map may submit to the FAA a noise compatibility program which
sets forth the measures taken or proposed by the airport operator for
the reduction of existing noncompatible land uses within the area
covered by the noise exposure maps. Title 49 requires such programs to
be developed in consultation with interested and affected parties
including local communities, government agencies, airport users, and
FAA personnel.
Each airport noise compatibility program developed in accordance
with Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) part 150 is a local program,
not a Federal Program. The FAA does not substitute its judgment for
that of the airport proprietor with respect to which measures should be
recommended for action. The FAA's approval or disapproval of FAR part
150 program recommendations is measured according to the standards
expressed in Part 150 and Title 49 and is limited to the following
determinations:
a. The noise compatibility program was developed in accordance with
the provisions and procedures of FAR Part 150;
b. Program measures are reasonably consistent with achieving the
goals of reducing existing noncompataible land uses around the airport
and preventing the introduction of additional noncompatible land uses;
c. Program measures would not create an undue burden on interstate
or foreign commerce, unjustly discriminate against types or classes of
aeronautical uses, violate the terms of airport grant agreements, or
intrude into areas preempted by the Federal Government; and
d. Program measures relating to the use of flight procedures can be
implemented within the period covered by the program without derogating
safety, adversely affecting the efficient use and management of the
navigable airspace and air traffic control systems, or adversely
affecting other powers and responsibilities of the Administrator
prescribed by law.
Specific limitations with respect to FAA's approval of an airport
noise compatibility program are delineated in FAR part 150, Sec. 150.5.
Approval is not a determination concerning the acceptability of land
uses under Federal, state, or local law. Approval does not by itself
constitute an FAA implementing action. A request for Federal action or
approval to implement specific noise compatibility measures may be
required, and an FAA decision on the request may require an
environmental assessment of the proposed action. Approval does not
constitute a commitment by the FAA to financially assist in the
implementation of the program nor a determination that all measures
covered by the program are eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the
FAA. Where Federal funding is sought, requests for project grants must
be submitted to the FAA Airports Division Office in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust submitted to the FAA on May
26, 1999, the noise exposure maps, descriptions, and other
documentation produced during the noise compatibility planning study
conducted from May 18, 1995 through May 26, 1999. The Tulsa
International Airport Noise exposure maps were determined by FAA to be
in compliance with applicable requirements on June 16, 1999. Notice of
this determination was published in the Federal Register on June 30,
1999.
The FAR Part 150 Study for Tulsa International Airport contains a
proposed noise compatibility program comprised of actions designed for
phased implementation by airport management and adjacent jurisdictions
from the date of study completion to the year 2002. It was requested
that the FAA evaluate and approve this material as a noise
compatibility program as described in Title 49. The FAA began its
review of the program on June 16, 1999 and was required by a provision
of the Act to approve or disapprove the program within 180 days (other
than the use of new flight procedures for noise control). Failure to
approve or disapprove such program within the 180-day period shall be
deemed to be an approval of such program.
The submitted program contained seven proposed actions for noise
mitigation on and off the airport. The FAA completed its review and
determined that the procedural and substantive requirements of Title 49
and FAR part 150 have been satisfied. The overall program, therefore,
was approved by the Administrator effective December 9, 1999.
Outright approval was granted for all of the specific program
elements: (1) Continue airport's existing noise concern/citizen liaison
program, (2) update and review the FAA part 150 study, (3) voluntary
acquisition of residences, (4) voluntary sound attenuation of homes and
churches, (5) voluntary purchase of avigation easements, (6) voluntary
sales assistance with avigation easement, and (7) noise monitoring.
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These determinations are set forth in detail in a Record of
Approval endorsed by the Administrator on December 9, 1999. The Record
of Approval, as well as other evaluation materials and the documents
comprising the submittal, are available at the FAA office listed above
and at the administrative offices of the Tulsa Airports Improvement
Trust, Tulsa International Airport Terminal, P.O. Box 58138, Tulsa,
Oklahoma 74158.
Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, December 23, 1999.
Joseph G. Washington,
Acting Manager, Airports Division.
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