[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 24, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 74858-74860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25768]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 97

[Docket No. 31342 Amdt. No. 3932]


Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and 
Obstacle Departure Procedures; Miscellaneous Amendments

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This rule amends, suspends, or removes Standard Instrument 
Approach Procedures (SIAPs) and associated Takeoff Minimums and 
Obstacle Departure Procedures for operations at certain airports. These 
regulatory actions are needed because of the adoption of new or revised 
criteria, or because of changes occurring in the National Airspace 
System, such as the commissioning of new navigational facilities, 
adding new obstacles, or changing air traffic requirements. These 
changes are designed to provide for the safe and efficient use of the 
navigable airspace and to promote safe flight operations under 
instrument flight rules at the affected airports.

DATES: This rule is effective November 24, 2020. The compliance date 
for each SIAP, associated Takeoff Minimums, and ODP is specified in the 
amendatory provisions.
    The incorporation by reference of certain publications listed in 
the regulations is approved by the Director of the Federal Register as 
of November 24, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Availability of matter incorporated by reference in the 
amendment is as follows:

For Examination

    1. U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Ops-M30, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE, West Bldg., Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001;
    2. The FAA Air Traffic Organization Service Area in which the 
affected airport is located;
    3. The office of Aeronautical Navigation Products, 6500 South 
MacArthur Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73169 or,
    4. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
    For information on the availability of this material at NARA, email 
[email protected] or go to: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ibr-locations.html.

Availability

    All SIAPs and Takeoff Minimums and ODPs are available online free 
of charge. Visit the National Flight Data Center online at nfdc.faa.gov 
to register. Additionally, individual SIAP and Takeoff Minimums and ODP 
copies may be obtained from the FAA Air Traffic Organization Service 
Area in which the affected airport is located.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Nichols, Flight Procedures 
and Airspace Group, Flight Technologies and Procedures Division, Flight 
Standards Service, Federal Aviation Administration. Mailing Address: 
FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Flight Procedures and Airspace 
Group, 6500 South MacArthur Blvd., Registry Bldg 29, Room 104, Oklahoma 
City, OK 73169. Telephone: (405) 954-4164.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This rule amends 14 CFR part 97 by amending 
the referenced SIAPs. The complete regulatory description of each SIAP 
is listed on the appropriate FAA Form 8260, as modified by the National 
Flight Data Center (NFDC)/Permanent Notice to Airmen (P-NOTAM), and is 
incorporated by reference under 5 U.S.C. 552(a), 1 CFR part 51, and 14 
CFR 97.20. The large number of SIAPs, their complex nature, and the 
need for a special format make their verbatim publication in the 
Federal Register expensive and impractical. Further,

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airmen do not use the regulatory text of the SIAPs, but refer to their 
graphic depiction on charts printed by publishers of aeronautical 
materials. Thus, the advantages of incorporation by reference are 
realized and publication of the complete description of each SIAP 
contained on FAA form documents is unnecessary. This amendment provides 
the affected CFR sections, and specifies the SIAPs and Takeoff Minimums 
and ODPs with their applicable effective dates. This amendment also 
identifies the airport and its location, the procedure and the 
amendment number.

Availability and Summary of Material Incorporated by Reference

    The material incorporated by reference is publicly available as 
listed in the ADDRESSES section.
    The material incorporated by reference describes SIAPs, Takeoff 
Minimums and ODPs as identified in the amendatory language for part 97 
of this final rule.

The Rule

    This amendment to 14 CFR part 97 is effective upon publication of 
each separate SIAP and Takeoff Minimums and ODP as amended in the 
transmittal. For safety and timeliness of change considerations, this 
amendment incorporates only specific changes contained for each SIAP 
and Takeoff Minimums and ODP as modified by FDC permanent NOTAMs.
    The SIAPs and Takeoff Minimums and ODPs, as modified by FDC 
permanent NOTAM, and contained in this amendment are based on criteria 
contained in the U.S. Standard for Terminal Instrument Procedures 
(TERPS). In developing these changes to SIAPs and Takeoff Minimums and 
ODPs, the TERPS criteria were applied only to specific conditions 
existing at the affected airports. All SIAP amendments in this rule 
have been previously issued by the FAA in a FDC NOTAM as an emergency 
action of immediate flight safety relating directly to published 
aeronautical charts.
    The circumstances that created the need for these SIAP and Takeoff 
Minimums and ODP amendments require making them effective in less than 
30 days.
    Because of the close and immediate relationship between these 
SIAPs, Takeoff Minimums and ODPs, and safety in air commerce, I find 
that notice and public procedure under 5 U.S.C. 553(b) are 
impracticable and contrary to the public interest and, where 
applicable, under 5 U.S.C. 553(d), good cause exists for making these 
SIAPs effective in less than 30 days.
    The FAA has determined that this 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. For the same reason, the FAA 
certifies that this amendment 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 97

    Air Traffic Control, Airports, Incorporation by reference, 
Navigation (air).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2020.
Wade Terrell,
Aviation Safety, Manager, Flight Procedures & Airspace Group, Flight 
Technologies and Procedures Division.

Adoption of the Amendment

    Accordingly, pursuant to the authority delegated to me, Title 14, 
CFR part 97, (is amended by amending Standard Instrument Approach 
Procedures and Takeoff Minimums and ODPs, effective at 0901 UTC on the 
dates specified, as follows:

PART 97--STANDARD INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURES

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1. The authority citation for part 97 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40103, 40106, 40113, 
40114, 40120, 44502, 44514, 44701, 44719, 44721-44722.


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2. Part 97 is amended to read as follows:
    By amending: Sec.  97.23 VOR, VOR/DME, VOR or TACAN, and VOR/DME or 
TACAN; Sec.  97.25 LOC, LOC/DME, LDA, LDA/DME, SDF, SDF/DME; Sec.  
97.27 NDB, NDB/DME; Sec.  97.29 ILS, ILS/DME, MLS, MLS/DME, MLS/RNAV; 
Sec.  97.31RADAR SIAPs; Sec.  97.33 RNAV SIAPs; and Sec.  97.35 COPTER 
SIAPs, Identified as follows:

* * * Effective Upon Publication

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        AIRAC date            State             City               Airport          FDC No.      FDC date                      Subject
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31-Dec-20................  MN           Waseca.............  Waseca Muni........       0/0401     10/29/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 15, Amdt 1A.
31-Dec-20................  HI           Lanai City.........  Lanai..............       0/4673     10/28/20  VOR OR TACAN RWY 3, Amdt 7A.
31-Dec-20................  HI           Lanai City.........  Lanai..............       0/4674     10/28/20  VOR OR TACAN OR GPS-A, Amdt 8.
31-Dec-20................  SC           Charleston.........  Charleston                0/5621      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 9, Amdt 3A.
                                                              Executive.
31-Dec-20................  SC           Charleston.........  Charleston                0/5626      11/6/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 9, Amdt 2B.
                                                              Executive.
31-Dec-20................  WI           La Crosse..........  La Crosse Rgnl.....       0/5679      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 31, Orig-C.
31-Dec-20................  VA           Martinsville.......  Blue Ridge.........       0/5798      11/5/20  Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle DP, Amdt 3.
31-Dec-20................  GA           Atlanta............  Dekalb-Peachtree...       0/5967     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS)-A, Orig.
31-Dec-20................  GA           Atlanta............  Dekalb-Peachtree...       0/5968     10/21/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 21L, Amdt 8D.
31-Dec-20................  GA           Atlanta............  Dekalb-Peachtree...       0/5969     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS) Y RWY 21L, Amdt 1D.
31-Dec-20................  NJ           Toms River.........  Ocean County.......       0/6023     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 24, Amdt 1.
31-Dec-20................  CA           Concord............  Buchanan Field.....       0/6119     10/23/20  VOR RWY 19R, Amdt 14.
31-Dec-20................  CA           Concord............  Buchanan Field.....       0/6120     10/23/20  LDA RWY 19R, Amdt 9.
31-Dec-20................  MT           Laurel.............  Laurel Muni........       0/6162     10/23/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 22, Amdt 1E.
31-Dec-20................  MN           Tracy..............  Tracy Muni.........       0/6597      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 29, Orig-A.
31-Dec-20................  IN           Washington.........  Daviess County.....       0/6598      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 18, Amdt 1A.
31-Dec-20................  MI           Sparta.............  Paul C Miller-            0/6599      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 7, Orig-A.
                                                              Sparta.
31-Dec-20................  MI           Sparta.............  Paul C Miller-            0/6600      11/6/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 25, Orig-A.
                                                              Sparta.
31-Dec-20................  IN           Muncie.............  Delaware County           0/6602      11/6/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 32, Amdt 9D.
                                                              Rgnl.

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31-Dec-20................  WY           Hulett.............  Hulett Muni........       0/6607      11/9/20  RNAV (GPS)-A, Amdt 1A.
31-Dec-20................  GA           Moultrie...........  Moultrie Muni......       0/6753     10/22/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 22, Amdt 2.
31-Dec-20................  MA           Norwood............  Norwood Memorial...       0/7160     10/29/20  LOC RWY 35, Amdt 10E.
31-Dec-20................  MA           Norwood............  Norwood Memorial...       0/7161     10/29/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 35, Amdt 1D.
31-Dec-20................  CO           Denver.............  Colorado Air And          0/7488     10/19/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 26, Amdt 6A.
                                                              Space Port.
31-Dec-20................  MN           Brainerd...........  Brainerd Lakes Rgnl       0/7830     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 34, Orig-B.
31-Dec-20................  MN           Brainerd...........  Brainerd Lakes Rgnl       0/7837     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 23, Orig-A.
31-Dec-20................  FL           Tampa..............  Tampa Intl.........       0/8275     10/23/20  LOC RWY 1R, Amdt 4.
31-Dec-20................  FL           Tampa..............  Tampa Intl.........       0/8278     10/23/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 19L, ILS RWY 19L (SA CAT I),
                                                                                                             ILS RWY 19L (CAT II), Amdt 40D.
31-Dec-20................  IN           Anderson...........  Anderson Muni-            0/9468     10/21/20  RNAV (GPS) RWY 30, Orig-B.
                                                              Darlington Field.
31-Dec-20................  IN           Anderson...........  Anderson Muni-            0/9469     10/21/20  NDB RWY 30, Amdt 8A.
                                                              Darlington Field.
31-Dec-20................  IN           Anderson...........  Anderson Muni-            0/9470     10/21/20  ILS OR LOC RWY 30, Amdt 2.
                                                              Darlington Field.
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