[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 11354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4546]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


RTCA, Inc.; Special Committee 159; Global Positioning System 
(GPS)

    Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
(Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of a 
request from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for RTCA to develop 
appropriate material for DOT consideration in preparing its comments on 
an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM), ``In the Matter of 
Revision of Part 15 of the Commission's Rules Regarding Ultra-Wideband 
Transmission Systems.''
    In response to this request, RTCA's Program management Committee 
has tasked Special Committee 159, Global Positioning System (GPS), to 
develop a response. Special Committee 159's next recommended 
submission, the Second Interim Report titled Ultra-Wideband Technology 
Radio Frequency Inference Effects to Global Positioning System 
Receivers and Interference Encounter Scenario Development, is being 
produced in two phases:
    Phase I. The report segment produced in the first phase, 
Preliminary Aviation Approached Segments for the Second Interim Report, 
has been provided to the Program Management Committee for review and 
was forwarded to DOT on February 13, 2001. This report represented a 
work in progress and is posted to the RTCA web site (www.rtca.org) on 
the Program Management Committee (PMC) page.
    Phase II. The complete Second Interim Report will finalized in the 
second phase and will include the phase I work as well as new material. 
The complete report will be posted to the RTCA web site by March 12, 
2001.
    The Program Management Committee will consider the completed Second 
Interim for approval at its meeting on March 27, 2001, before it is 
forwarded to DOT.
    Persons wishing to obtain information, or have questions/comments, 
should contact RTCA, Inc., Attn: Mr. Jerry Bryant, at (202) 833-9339 
(phone), (202) 833-9424 (facsimile), or [email protected] (e-mail).

    Issued in Washington, DC on February 15, 2001.
Janice L. Peters,
Designated Official.
[FR Doc. 01-4546 Filed 2-22-01; 8:45 am]
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