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[FR Doc No: 94-14953]


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[Federal Register: June 20, 1994]


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Part VIII

Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration



14 CFR Parts 91 and 135

Department of the Interior
National Park Service



36 CFR Part 1, et al.



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Overflights of Units of the National Park System; Proposed Rule
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Parts 91 and 135

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

36 CFR Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7

[Docket No. 27643; Notice No. 94-5]

 
Overflights of Units of the National Park System

AGENCY: National Park Service (NPS), DOI and Federal Aviation 
Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM); extension of 
comment period.

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SUMMARY: This document announces an extension of the comment period on 
Notice 94-4 entitled, ``Overflights of Units of the National Park 
System'' (59 FR 12740; March 17, 1994). This comment period is extended 
from June 15, 1994, until July 15, 1994. The extension responds to the 
request of the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) and 
is needed to permit NCPA, and other affected parties, additional time 
to develop comments responsive to Notice 94-4.

DATES: The comment period is being extended from June 15, 1994, to July 
15, 1994.

ADDRESSES: As stated in Notice 94-4, comments should be mailed, in 
triplicate, to: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Chief 
Counsel, Attention: Rules Docket (AGC-200), Docket No. 27643, 800 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. All comments must be 
marked: ``Docket No. 27643.'' Comments on this notice may be examined 
in room 915G on weekdays, except on Federal holidays, between 8:30 a.m. 
and 5 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David L. Bennett, Office of Chief Counsel, AGC-600, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591, 
telephone (202) 267-3473, or Michael M. Tiernan, Office of the 
Solicitor, Department of Interior (DOI), 18th and C Streets, NW., 
Washington, DC 2040, telephone (202) 208-7597.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 17, 1994, the FAA issued Notice No. 
94-4, entitled ``Overflights of Units of the National Park System.'' 
Notice No. 94-4 sought comment on general policy and specific 
recommendations for voluntary and regulatory actions to address the 
effects of aircraft overflights on national parks.

    By a request dated May 12, 1994, the NPCA asked that the comment 
period be extended 30 days. The NPCA explained that, unlike the airtour 
industry and other vested interests that have formed cohesive groups 
with streamlined communications systems, its 400,000 members are 
individual citizens who share an interest of protecting and preserving 
the national parks and national park values and are reliant on periodic 
contact with the NPCA. It indicated that the additional time would 
allow it to make the contents of the notice available to interested 
members, and allow it sufficient time to digest the notice and draft 
and file comments.
    In order to give the NCPA and its members additional time to 
prepare comments, the FAA finds that it would be in the public interest 
to extend the comment period by 30 days. Accordingly, the comment 
period is being extended to July 15, 1994, to afford all interested 
persons the opportunity to comment on this notice.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 10, 1994.
Harold W. Becker,
Acting Director, Air Traffic Rules and Procedures Service, Federal 
Aviation Administration.
Michael V. Finley,
Acting Associate Director, Operations, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 94-14953 Filed 6-15-94; 3:10 pm]
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