[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 38 (Friday, February 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 10142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4483]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary


Availability of the Federal Radionavigation Plan

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, 
DOT.

ACTION: Availability of the Federal Radionavigation Plan.

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SUMMARY: The 1999 edition of the Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP) has 
been published and is available for comment. All comments, concerns, 
and suggestions regarding the current policies and plans in the 1999 
FRP will be considered in formulation of the 2001 FRP. The policies in 
the 1999 FRP include provisions for two additional Global Positioning 
System (GPS) signals for civil use and focus on transition to GPS based 
services with recognition of the need to maintain some existing 
navigation aids. The schedule in the 1999 FRP includes an initial 
operating capability for the FAA Wide Area Augmentation System at the 
end of 2001. The FAA's Local Area Augmentation System is planned to 
begin service at selected airports in 2003. The 1999 FRP also includes 
a revised schedule for phasing down land-based navigation aids. The 
phase down of VOR/DMEs, ILSs and MLSs for Category I approaches, and 
TACAN will begin in 2008. The phase down of ILSs for Category II and 
III approaches will not begin before 2015. The U.S. will continue 
operating Loran-C in the short term while the Administration continues 
to evaluate the long-term need for the system. Maritime radiobeacons 
not used for differential GPS are expected to be phased out by 2000. 
Stand-alone aeronautical NDBs will be phased out after 2008. NDBs used 
as compass locators for ILSs will be phased out when the underlying 
ILSs are withdrawn.

DATES: Comments must be received by July 31, 2000 for consideration in 
development of the 2001 FRP.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be forwarded to Chairman, DOT POS/NAV 
Working Group, Department of Transportation (P-7), Room 10315, 400 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Email: 
[email protected]. In addition to written input, two public 
meetings will be held to solicit verbal input. Comments received at the 
public meetings on the policies and plans contained in the 1999 FRP 
will be considered in formulation of the 2001 FRP. The first meeting is 
scheduled for March 28 through March 30, 2000, at the Fair Oaks Holiday 
Inn in Fairfax, VA. See notice of meeting under Transportation 
Department in Federal Register, 65 FR (6437) 2/9/2000. The second 
meeting will be held at the end of June, 2000, in San Diego. A Federal 
Register notice will be issued in advance of the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Shaw, Department of 
Transportation (P-7), 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC, 20590, (202) 
366-0353.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Free copies of the 1999 FRP are available 
from the Volpe National Transportation System Center, Kendall Square, 
Cambridge, MA 02142. The telephone number there is (617) 494-2908. The 
1999 FRP is also on the Internet World Wide Web at http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/frp.

    Issued in Washington, DC on February 18, 2000.
Joseph F. Canny,
Deputy Assistant Secretary For Navigation Systems Policy.
[FR Doc. 00-4483 Filed 2-24-00; 8:45 am]
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