[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3072-3073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1626]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration


Approval of the Noise Compatibility Program for Glendale 
Municipal Airport, Glendale, Arizona

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 for the Glendale Municipal 
Airport, submitted by the city of Glendale, Arizona, under the 
provisions of Title I of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 
1979 (Public Law 96-193) (hereinafter referred to as ``the Act'') and 
14 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 July 5, 1994, the FAA determined that the Noise 
Exposure Maps, submitted by the city under 14 CFR Part 150, were in 
compliance with applicable requirements. On December 27, 1995, the 
Associate Administrator for Airports approved the Noise Compatibility 
Program for Glendale Municipal Airport. All sixteen (16) proposed noise 
abatement, land use management and program management measures were 
approved.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date of the FAA's approval of the Noise 
Compatibility Program for Glendale Municipal Airport is December 27, 
1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David B. Kessler, Environmental Protection Specialist, Airport 
Division, AWP-611.2, Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific 
Region. Mailing address: P.O. Box 92007, Worldway Postal Center, Los 
Angeles, California 90009-2007. Telephone number: (310) 725-3615. 
Street address: 15000 Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 90261. 
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 of the Noise Compatibility Program for Glendale 
Municipal Airport, effective December 27, 1995. Under Section 104(a) of 
the Aviation Safety and the Noise Abatement Act of 1979 (hereinafter 
referred to as the ``Act''), 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 and prevention of additional noncompatible land uses within 
the area covered by the Noise Exposure Maps. The Act 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 the Act, 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 noncompatible land uses around the airport 
and preventing the introduction of additional non compatible 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 
navigable airspace and air traffic control 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, Section 
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 implementation 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 under the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended. 
Where Federal funding is sought, requests for project grants must be 
submitted to the FAA Airports Division Office in Hawthorne, California.
    The city of Glendale submitted to the FAA on May 12, 1994, the 
noise exposure maps, descriptions, and other documentation produced 
during the noise compatibility planning study conducted from October 5, 
1993 through January 12, 1995. The Glendale Municipal Airport noise 
exposure maps were determined by FAA to be in compliance with 
applicable requirements on July 5, 1994. Notice of this determination 
was published in the Federal Register on July 26, 1994.
    The Glendale Municipal Airport study contained 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 1999. It 

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was requested that the FAA evaluated and approve this material as a 
Noise Compatibility Program as described in section 104(b) of the Act. 
The FAA began its review of the program on June 30, 1995 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 an approval of such program.
    The submitted program contained sixteen (16) proposed actions for 
noise mitigation on and off the airport. The FAA completed its review 
and determined that the procedural and substantive requirements of the 
Act and FAR Part 150 have been satisfied. The overall program, 
therefore, was approved by the Associate Administrator for Airports 
effective December 27, 1995.
    Outright approval was granted for all sixteen (16) specific program 
measures. The approved measures included such items as encouraging 
right turns on the upwind leg of Runway 1 local traffic pattern; 
Encourage use of straight-out VFR departures from Runway 19; Right 
turns for VFR departures from Runway 1; establishment of an informal 
runway use program; Encourage use of AOPA and NBAA noise abatement and 
departure/arrival procedures; adoption of noise-sensitive marketing 
policies; maintain existing general plan designations for compatible 
land uses in the airport influence area; retain existing compatible use 
zoning in the airport influence area; Encourage the Flood Control 
District to include airport noise impacts in priority setting system 
for flood control projects; Discourage rezoning to higher density 
residential zones in unincorporated areas of the airport influence 
area; encourage fair disclosure to future property owners; through 
rezoning process, prohibit homes in the 65 DNL and ``runway approach 
areas''; acquisition of homes and undeveloped land within the 65 DNL 
noise contour; maintain a complaint response system, and review and 
update Noise Exposure Maps and the Noise Compatibility Program as 
necessary.
    These determinations are set forth in detail in the Record of 
Approval endorsed by the Associate Administrator for Airports on 
December 27, 1995. The Record of Approval, as well as other evaluation 
materials, and the documents comprising the submittal are available for 
review at the FAA office listed above and at the administrative offices 
of the Glendale Municipal Airport, Glendale, Arizona.

    Issued in Hawthorne, California on January 5, 1996.
Herman C. Bliss,
Manager, Airports Division, AWP-600, Western-Pacific Region.
[FR Doc. 96-1626 Filed 1-29-96; 8:45 am]
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