[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 157 (Monday, August 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50437-50438]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18722]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

[Docket No. FAA-2004-16944]


Operating Limitations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport; 
Extension of Request for Written Information

ACTION: Extension of request for information.

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SUMMARY: This action extends the period during which interested persons 
may submit written information, including data and views, in response 
to a notice that the FAA published on August 2, 2004. In that document, 
the FAA announced that it would hold a meeting beginning on August 4 to 
discuss flight reductions at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport 
(O'Hare) to reduce overscheduling and flight delays during peak hours 
of operation at that airport. In addition, the notice invited 
interested persons to submit written information on such schedule 
reductions. Since the meeting commenced on August 4, the FAA has 
continued discussions with air carriers that attended the meeting. The 
FAA is extending the period for filing written information to afford 
interested parties additional time to submit information while the 
discussions continue.

DATES: Written information must be received on or before 12 p.m. on 
August 13, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may send written information, identified by docket 
number FAA-2004-16944, by any of the following methods:
     DOT Docket Web site: Go to http://dms.dot.gov and follow 
the instructions for submitting information electronically.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401, 
Washington, DC 20590-001. If sent by mail, information is to be 
submitted in two copies. Persons wishing to receive confirmation of 
receipt of their written submission should include a self-addressed 
stamped postcard.
     Hand Delivery: Docket Management System, Room PL-401 on 
the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.
    For more information on this proceeding, see the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.
    Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket number 
FAA-2004-16944 for this notice at the beginning of the information that 
you submit. Note that the information received will be posted without 
change to http://dms.dot.gov, including any personal information 
provided.
    Docket: To read background documents or review information 
received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL-401 on the 
plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerry Shakley, System Operations, Air 
Traffic Organization, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-9424, facsimile: 
(202) 267-7277; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 28, 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued 
a notice announcing that it would conduct a meeting to discuss flight 
reductions at O'Hare to reduce over scheduling and flight delays during 
peak hours at the airport (69 FR 46201; August 2, 2004). The FAA also 
invited the submission of written information from interested person on 
such schedule reductions. The FAA plans to issue a decision on delay 
reductions in a final order. The meeting began on August 4 and is 
continuing. It was open to all scheduled carriers, regardless of 
whether they currently serve O'Hare. The FAA originally solicited 
written information filed on or before August 11, 2004.

Extension of Request for Information

    Discussions with the air carriers regarding their scheduled 
operations at O'Hare are continuing. The FAA designated a short period 
for submitting information, as the FAA has previously indicated its 
intentions to address this issue as soon as possible to accommodate the 
implementation of the air carriers' November 2004 schedules. Given that 
the discussions are

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continuing, the FAA finds that it would benefit the public and the 
agency to keep the public docket open for as long as possible to afford 
interested persons more time to submit written information.
    The FAA will provide actual notice to all parties that attended the 
meeting. The FAA has determined that extension of the period for 
submitting written information is consistent with the public interest, 
and that good cause exists for taking this action. Accordingly, the 
period is extended until 12 p.m. on August 13, 2004.
    We will consider all information we receive on or before the 
extended closing date. We will consider information filed late if it is 
possible to do so without incurring expense or delay.

Public Availability and Confidentiality of Information

    Except as provided below, we will file in the docket without change 
all information we receive. The docket is available for public 
inspection before and after its closing date. If you wish to review the 
docket in person, go to the address in the ADDRESSES section of this 
preamble between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays. You may also review the docket via the Internet at 
the Web address in the ADDRESSES section.
    Proprietary or Confidential Business Information: As a result of 
the written information's availability to the public, do not file with 
the docket information that you consider to be proprietary or 
confidential business information. Send or deliver this information 
directly to the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document. In addition, please mark the 
information that you consider proprietary or confidential. If you send 
the information on a disk or CD-ROM, mark the outside of the disk or CD 
ROM and also identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the 
specific information that is proprietary or confidential.
    Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), when we are aware of proprietary information 
filed with a submission, we do not place it in the docket. We hold it 
in a separate file to which the public does not have access, and place 
a note in the docket that we have received it. If we receive a request 
to examine or copy this information, we treat it as any other request 
under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). We process such a 
request under the DOT procedures found in 49 CFR part 7.
    Privacy Act: Using the search function of our docket Web site, 
anyone can find and read the information received in any docket, 
including the name of the individual submitting the information or 
signing on behalf of a submitting organization. You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on August 11, 2004.
Andrew B. Steinberg,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 04-18722 Filed 8-11-04; 4:48 am]
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