[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 82 (Monday, May 1, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20412-20413]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08751]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2017-0325]


Airport Privatization Pilot Program: Preliminary Application for 
St. Louis Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, MO

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of receipt and acceptance for review.

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SUMMARY: The FAA has completed its review of the St. Louis Lambert 
International Airport (STL) preliminary application for participation 
in the Airport Privatization Pilot Program. The preliminary application 
is accepted for review, with a filing date of March 22, 2017. The City 
of St. Louis, the airport sponsor, may proceed with the necessary steps 
to select a private operator, negotiate an agreement and submit a final 
application to the FAA for exemption under the pilot program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin C. Willis, Director, Airport 
Compliance and Management Analysis,

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ACO-1, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202) 267-3085.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Title 49 U.S.C. 47134 establishes an airport privatization pilot 
program and authorizes the Department of Transportation to grant 
exemptions from certain Federal statutory and regulatory requirements 
for up to ten airport privatization projects. The application 
procedures require the FAA to publish a notice in the Federal Register 
after review of a preliminary application. The FAA must publish a 
notice of receipt of the final application in the Federal Register for 
public review and comment for a sixty-day period. The STL preliminary 
application is available for public review at http://www.regulations.gov. The docket number is FAA Docket No. 2017-0325.
    Title 49 U.S.C. 47134 authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, 
and through delegation, the FAA Administrator, to exempt a sponsor of a 
public use airport that has received Federal assistance, from certain 
Federal requirements in connection with the privatization of the 
airport by sale or lease to a private party. Specifically, the 
Administrator may exempt the sponsor from all or part of the 
requirements to use airport revenues for airport-related purposes, to 
pay back a portion of Federal grants upon the sale or lease of an 
airport, and to return airport property deeded by the Federal 
Government upon transfer of the airport. The Administrator is also 
authorized to exempt the private purchaser or lessee from the 
requirement to use all airport revenues for airport-related purposes, 
to the extent necessary to permit the purchaser or lessee to earn 
compensation from the operations of the airport.
    On September 16, 1997, the FAA issued a Notice of procedures to be 
used in applications for exemption under the Airport Privatization 
Pilot Program (62 FR 48693). A request for participation in the pilot 
program must be initiated by the filing of either a preliminary or 
final application for exemption with the FAA.
    The City of St. Louis submitted a preliminary application to the 
FAA for St. Louis Lambert International Airport on March 22, 2017; the 
preliminary application is accepted for review, with the same filing 
date. The City may select a private operator, negotiate an agreement 
and submit a final application to the FAA for exemption.
    If the FAA accepts the final application for review, the 
application will be made available for public review and comment for a 
60-day period.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2017.
Kevin C. Willis,
Director, Office of Airport Compliance and Management Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2017-08751 Filed 4-28-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4910-13-P