[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 10, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 57450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-22945]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Notice of Meeting of the National Parks Overflights Advisory 
Group

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) and Federal Aviation 
Administration (FAA), in accordance with the National Parks Air Tour 
Management Act of 2000, announce the next meeting of the National Parks 
Overflight Advisory Group (NPOAG). The meeting will take place October 
4-5, 2002, in Tusayan, Arizona. This notice informs the public of the 
dates, location, and agenda for the meeting.

DATES: The NPOAG will meet October 4-5, 2002, at the Best Western Grand 
Canyon Squire Inn, Highway 64, Tusayan, Arizona 86023 (telephone 1-800-
622-6966). The meeting will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, October 4, 
and end at approximately 3:00 p.m. October 5.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry Brayer, Manager, Executive 
Resource Staff, Western Pacific Region, Federal Aviation 
Administration, 15000 Aviation Blvd., Hawthorne, CA 90250, telephone: 
(310) 725-3800, or [email protected] or Marvin Jensen, Soundscapes 
Office, National Park Service, 1201 Oak Ridge Drive, Suite 200, Ft. 
Collins, Colorado, 80525, telephone: (970) 225-3563, or [email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, enacted on 
April 5, 2000, as Public Law 106-181 (Pub. L. 106-181), required the 
establishment of a National Parks Overflights Advisory Group within 1 
year after its enactment. The NPOAG was to be a balanced group 
representative of general aviation, commercial air tour operations, 
environmental concerns, and Indian tribes. The duties of the NPOAG 
included providing advice, information, and recommendations to the 
Director, NPS, and to the Administrator, FAA, on the implementation of 
Public Law 106-181, on quiet aircraft technology, on other measures 
that might accommodate interests to visitors to national parks, and, at 
the request of the Director and Administrator, on safety, 
environmental, and other issues related to commercial air tour 
operations over national parks or tribal lands.
    On March 12, 2001, the FAA and NPS announced the establishment of 
the NPOAG (48 FR 14429). Current members of the NPOAG are Andy Cebula 
(general aviation), David Kennedy, Joe Currao, and Alan Stephens 
(commercial air tour operations), Chip Dennerlein, Charles Maynard, 
Boyd Evison, and Susan Gunn (environmental interests), and Germaine 
White and Richard Deertrack (Indian tribes).
    The first meeting of the advisory group was held August 28-29, 
2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Agenda for the October 2002 Meeting

    The meeting on October 5, 2002, will include a review of the status 
of documents pertaining to development of air tour management plans, 
discussion noise analysis, new development in quiet aircraft 
technology, issues of historical and cultural preservation in the 
national parks, and a review of plans for noise data collection in 
national parks in Hawaii. On Saturday, October 6, the NPOAG will visit 
a Grand Canyon air tour operator and possibly travel to the Grand 
Canyon rim to observe air tour overflights.

Attendance at the Meeting

    Although this is not a public meeting, interested persons may 
attend. Because seating is limited, if you plan to attend, please 
contact one of the persons listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
so that meeting space may accommodate your attendance.

Record of the Meeting

    If you cannot attend the meeting, a summary record of the meeting 
will be made available by the Office of Rulemaking (ARM), 800 
Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591. Contact is Linda 
Williams, (202) 267-9685, or [email protected].

    Issued in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2002.
Louis C. Cusimano,
Acting Director, Flight Standards Service.
[FR Doc. 02-22945 Filed 9-9-02; 8:45 am]
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