[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 6, 2002)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 5529-5530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-2407]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 71

[Airspace Docket No. 01-AAL-2]


Proposed Amendment of Class E Airspace; Cold Bay, AK

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: This action proposes to amend Class E airspace at Cold Bay, 
AK. Due to the development of an Area Navagation (RNAV) Global 
Positioning System (GPS) Runway (Rwy) 26 Instrument Approach Procedure 
for the Cold Bay airport, additional Class E airspace to protect 
Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations is needed. The additional 
Class E surface area airspace will ensure that aircraft executing the 
RNAV (GPS) Rwy 26 standard instrument approach procedure remain within 
controlled airspace. Adoption of this proposal would result in 
additional Class E airspace at Cold Bay, AK.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 25, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on the proposal in triplicate to: Manager, 
Operations Branch, AAL-530, Docket No. 01-AAL-2, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 222 West 7th Avenue, Box 14, Anchorage, AK 99513-7587.
    The official docket may be examined in the Office of the Regional 
Counsel for the Alaskan Region at the same address.
    An informal docket may also be examined during normal business 
hours in the Office of the Manager, Operations Branch, Air Traffic 
Division, at the address shown above and on the Internet at Alaskan 
Region's homepage at http://www.alaska.faa.gov/at or at address http://162.58.28.41/at.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Derril Bergt, AAL-538, Federal 
Aviation Administration, 222 West 7th Avenue, Box 14, Anchorage, AK 
99513-7587; telephone number (907) 271-2796; fax: (907) 271-2850; e-
mail: [email protected]. Internet address: http://www.alaska.faa.gov/at or at address http://162.58.28.41/at.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

    Interested parties are invited to participate in this proposed 
rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments as they 
may desire. Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the 
views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing 
reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal. Comments are 
specifically invited on the overall regulatory, aeronautical, economic, 
environmental, and energy-related aspects of the proposal. 
Communications should identify the airspace docket number and be 
submitted to the address listed above. Commenters wishing the FAA to 
acknowledge receipt of their comments on this action must submit with 
those comments a self-addressed, stamped postcard on which the 
following statement is made: ``Comments to Airspace Docket No. 01-AAL-
2.'' The postcard will be date/time stamped and returned to the 
commenter. All communications received on or before the specified 
closing date for comments will be considered before taking action on 
the proposed rule. The proposal contained in this action may be changed 
in light of comments received. All comments submitted will be available 
for examination in the Operations Branch, Air Traffic Division, Federal 
Aviation Administration, 222 West 7th Avenue, Box 14, Anchorage, AK, 
both before and after the closing date for comments. A report 
summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel 
concerned with this rulemaking will be filed in the docket.

Availability of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking's (NPRM's)

    An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded, using a 
modem and suitable communications software, from the FAA regulations 
section of the Fedworld electronic bulletin board service (telephone: 
703-321-3339) or the Federal Register's electronic bulletin board 
service (telephone: 202-512-1661).
    Internet users may reach the Federal Register's web page for access 
to recently published rulemaking documents at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html.
    Any person may obtain a copy of this NPRM by submitting a request 
to the Operations Branch, AAL-530, Federal Aviation Administration, 222 
West 7th Avenue, Box 14, Anchorage, AK 99513-7587. Communications must 
identify the docket number of this NPRM. Persons interested in being 
placed on a mailing list for future NPRM's should contact the 
individual(s) identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section.

The Proposal

    The FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part 71 by adding Class E airspace 
at Cold Bay, AK. The intended effect of this proposal is to add Class E 
controlled airspace necessary to contain IFR operations at Cold Bay, 
AK.
    The FAA is adding a standard instrument approach procedure to the 
Cold Bay airport, Runway 26. This runway did not previously have an 
instrument approach procedure, although there are standard instrument 
approach procedures to other runways. The airspace currently designated 
as Class E is sufficient for all existing approaches, but does not 
contain the new standard instrument approach procedure to Runway 26.
    The proposed Class E Airspace would be depicted on aeronautical 
charts for pilot reference. The coordinates for this airspace docket 
are based on North American Datum 83. The Class E airspace areas 
designated as 700/1200 foot transition areas are published in

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paragraph 6005 in FAA Order 7400.9J, Airspace Designations and 
Reporting Points, dated August 31, 2001, and effective September 16, 
2001, which is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR 71.1. The Class E 
airspace designations listed in this document would be published 
subsequently in the Order.
    The FAA has determined that this proposed regulation only involves 
an established body of technical regulations for which frequent and 
routine amendments are necessary to keep them operationally current. 
It, therefore: (1) is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under 
Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a ``significant rule'' under DOT 
Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034; February 26, 1979); 
and (3) 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, when promulgated, 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 Proposed Amendment

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

PART 71-- DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, CLASS B, CLASS C, CLASS D, AND 
CLASS E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIRWAYS; ROUTES; AND REPORTING POINTS

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

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 
FR 9565, 3 CFR 1959-1963 Comp., p. 389.


Sec. 71.1  [Amended]

    2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of Federal 
Aviation Administration Order 7400.9J, Airspace Designations and 
Reporting Points, dated August 31, 2001, and effective September 16, 
2001, is amended as follows:
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Paragraph 6005  Class E airspace extending upward from 700 feet or 
more above the surface of the earth.

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AAL AK E5  Cold Bay, AK [REVISED]

Cold Bay Airport, AK
    (Lat. 55 deg.12'20"N., long. 162 deg.43'27"W.)
Cold Bay VORTAC
    (Lat. 55 deg.16'03"N., long. 162 deg.46'27"W.)
Elfee NDB
    (Lat. 55 deg.17'46"N., long. 162 deg.47'21"W.)
Cold Bay Localizer
    (Lat. 55 deg.11"41'N., long. 162 deg.43"07'W.)

    That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface 
within a 14-mile radius of Cold Bay VORTAC extending clockwise from 
the 253 deg. radial to the 041 deg. radial of the VORTAC and within 
4 miles south of the 253 deg. radial Cold Bay VORTAC extending from 
the VORTAC to 7.2 miles west of the Cold Bay Airport and within 4 
miles south of the 041 deg. radial extending from the VORTAC to 7.2 
miles east of the airport and within 4.5 miles west and 8 miles east 
of the Elfee NDB 318 deg. bearing extending from the NDB to 21.7 
northwest of the airport and that airspace within 3 miles each side 
of the Cold Bay VORTAC 150 deg. radial extending from the VORTAC to 
18.2 miles south of the airport and within 2.8 miles west of the 
Cold Bay Localizer back course extending from the airport to 15.7 
miles south of the airport; excluding that airspace more than 12 
miles from the shoreline; and that airspace extending from 1,200 
feet above the surface within 18.3 miles from the Cold Bay VORTAC 
extending clockwise from the Cold Bay VORTAC 085 deg. radial to the 
Cold Bay VORTAC 142 deg. radial.
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    Issued in Anchorage, AK, on January 18, 2002.
Stephen P. Creamer,
Assistant Manager, Air Traffic Division, Alaskan Region.
[FR Doc. 02-2407 Filed 2-5-02; 8:45 am]
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