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[FR Doc No: 94-27288]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Docket No. 27297; Amendment No. 71-25]

 

Amendment to the South Florida Low Offshore Airspace Area

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Technical amendment.

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SUMMARY: This action amends the description of the South Florida Low 
airspace area to exclude the airspace within the Grand Bahama terminal 
control area (TCA) and the Nassau TCA. At the present time, the South 
Florida Low airspace area is correctly depicted on aeronautical charts 
as excluding the airspace of the underlying Grand Bahama and Nassau 
TCAs. However, the current airspace description of this airspace area 
is erroneous in that it inadvertently includes the Grand Bahamas and 
the Nassau TCAs as part of the South Florida Low airspace area. This 
action corrects this error.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 3, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reginald C. Matthews, ATP-230, Air Traffic Rules Branch, Federal 
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591, telephone (202) 267-8783.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The Offshore Airspace Reconfiguration Final Rule published March 2, 
1993 (58 FR 12128), amended the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), in 
pertinent part, by designating additional control areas as offshore 
airspace areas or en route domestic airspace areas. The offshore areas 
were divided into high and low areas and an effort was made to 
establish a uniform floor of controlled airspace for certain air 
traffic operations. Through that rule, the South Florida control area 
was revised and redesignated as the South Florida Low offshore airspace 
area. The rule also extended the airspace of the South Florida Low 
airspace area from 2,700 feet mean sea level (MSL) up to, but not 
including, 18,000 feet MSL.
    The lateral boundaries of the South Florida Low were further 
revised, by amendment (58 FR 33907; June 22, 1993), to extend from 
latitude 28 deg.00'00'' North to latitude 34 deg.00'00'' North. 
However, both amendments to the South Florida Low airspace area 
inadvertently included the underlying airspace within the Grand Bahama 
TCA and the Nassau TCA, both of which have airspace segments extending 
above 2,700 feet MSL. The South Florida Low is correctly depicted on 
aeronautical charts as excluding the airspace of the underlying TCAs. 
However, the airspace description does not reflect this exclusion as 
was intended.

The Amendment

    This amendment to part 71 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 
CFR part 71) revises the airspace description of the South Florida Low 
airspace area by excluding the Grand Bahama TCA and the Nassau TCA.
    The FAA has determined that this regulation is not a ``significant 
regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866; is not a ``significant 
rule'' under DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034; 
February 26, 1979); and 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 will not have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the 
criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71

    Airspace, Incorporation by reference, Navigation (air).

The Amendment

    In consideration of the foregoing, the Federal Aviation 
Administration amends 14 CFR part 71 as follows:

PART 71--[AMENDED]

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

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. app. 1348(a), 1354(a), 1510; E.O. 10854, 24 
FR 9565, 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 389; 49 U.S.C. 106(g); 14 CFR 
11.69.


Sec. 71.1  [Amended]

    2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of Federal 
Aviation Administration Order 7400.9B, Airspace Designations and 
Reporting Points, dated July 18, 1994, and effective September 16, 
1994, is amended as follows:

Paragraph 6007--Offshore Airspace Areas

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South Florida Low, FL  [Revised]

    That airspace extending upward from 2,700 feet MSL bounded on 
the west by the Houston Oceanic CTA/FIR; bounded on the north from 
west to east by the Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center 
boundary, a line 12 miles from and parallel to the U.S. shoreline 
and lat. 34 deg.00'00''N., bounded on the east by the New York 
Oceanic CTA/FIR and the San Juan Oceanic CTA/FIR; bounded on the 
south from east to west by the Santo Domingo FIR, the Port-Au-Prince 
CTA/FIR and the Havana CTA/FIR; excluding the Grand Bahama TCA and 
the Nassau TCA.
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    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1994.
Harold W. Becker,
Manager, Airspace-Rules and Aeronautical Information Division.
[FR Doc. 94-27288 Filed 11-2-94; 8:45 am]
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