[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 89 (Wednesday, May 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26446-26447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2273]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Notice of Meetings of the National Parks Overflights Advisory 
Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee and the Grand Canyon Working Group

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National 
Park Service (NPS), in accordance with the National Parks Air Tour 
Management Act of 2000, announce the next meeting of the National Parks 
Overflights Advisory Group (NPOAG) Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC). 
In addition, the FAA and NPS are announcing the next meeting of the 
Grand Canyon Working Group (GCWG). The GCWG is a self-contained group 
within the NPOAG. This notification provides the dates, location, and 
agendas for the meetings.

DATES AND LOCATION: The GCWG meetings will take place on June 12 and 
June 13, 2007. The NPOAG ARC will meet on June 14 and 15, 2007. The 
meetings will take place in the Arizona/Barcelona Rooms at the 
Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 
85250, phone number (480) 949-1414. The meetings will begin at 8:30 
a.m. each day. Members of either group (NPOAG/GCWG) as well as the 
public can attend both meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the NPOAG meeting contact Barry 
Brayer, AWP-1SP, Special Programs, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Western-Pacific Region Headquarters, P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, CA 
90009-2007, telephone: (310) 725-3800, e-mail: [email protected], or 
Karen Trevino, National Park Service, Natural

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Sounds Program, 1201 Oakridge Dr., Suite 350, Ft. Collins, CO 80525, 
telephone: (970) 225-3563, e-mail: [email protected]. For the GCWG 
meeting contact Lucy Moore, 5 Seton Place, Santa Fe, NM 87505, 
telephone: (505) 820-2166, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The FAA and NPS established the GCWG within the NPOAG to provide 
advice and recommendations regarding the implementation of the National 
Parks Overflights Act of 1987 with respect to the Grand Canyon. The 
GCWG is comprised of 20 members to assure a representative and balanced 
group of agency, tribal, environmental, recreation, and aviation 
interests. The Working Group is co-chaired by a representative of the 
NPS and a representative of the FAA, and is facilitated by Lucy Moore 
Associates, a third-party neutral contracted through the U.S. Institute 
for Environmental Conflict Resolution. The Working Group has specific 
responsibilities for Grand Canyon overflight matters, including but not 
limited to: Review of the overflights noise analysis; and 
recommendations for a final overflights plan that provides for the 
substantial restoration of natural quiet and experience of the Grand 
Canyon National Park, including routes or corridors for commercial air 
tour operations that employ quiet aircraft technology.
    The National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, enacted on 
April 5, 2000, as Public Law 106-181, required the establishment of the 
NPOAG within one year after its enactment. The Act requires that the 
NPOAG be a balanced group of representatives of general aviation, 
commercial air tour operations, environmental concerns, and Native 
American tribes. The Administrator of the FAA and the Director of NPS 
(or their designees) serve as ex officio members of the group. 
Representatives of the Administrator and Director serve alternating 1-
year as chairman of the advisory group.
    The duties of the NPOAG include providing advice, information, and 
recommendations to the FAA Administrator and the NPS Director on: 
Implementation of Public Law 106-181; quiet aircraft technology; other 
measures that might accommodate interests to visitors to national 
parks; and at the request of the Administrator and the Director, on 
safety, environmental, and other issues related to commercial air tour 
operations over national parks or tribal lands.

Agenda for the June 12-13, 2007 Grand Canyon Working Group Meeting

    An agenda will be distributed to Working Group members and posted 
on the FAA Grand Canyon Overflights Web site (http://overflights.faa.gov)

Agenda for the June 14-15, 2007 NPOAG Meeting

    The agenda for the meeting will include, but is not limited to, the 
following: Review and approval of previous meeting minutes; update on 
ongoing Air Tour Management Program projects; and NPOAG subgroup 
assignments.

Attendance at the Meetings

    Although these are not public meetings, 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 be made to accommodate all attendees.

Record of the Meetings

    A meeting summary for the GCWG meeting will be posted under the 
related documents section of the FAA Grand Canyon Overflights Web site 
at http://overflights.faa.gov. If you cannot attend the NPOAG meeting, 
a summary record of the meeting will be made available under the 
program information section of the FAA ATMP Web site at http://www.atmp.faa.gov or through the Special Programs staff, Western-Pacific 
Region, Federal Aviation Administration, P.O. Box 92007, Los Angeles, 
CA 90009-2007, telephone: (310) 725-3800.

    Issued in Hawthorne, CA on May 2, 2007.
Barry Brayer,
Manager, Special Programs, Western-Pacific Region.
[FR Doc. 07-2273 Filed 5-8-07; 8:45 am]
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