[Federal Register: April 10, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 68)]
[Notices]
[Page 16442-16443]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10ap09-128]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Membership Availability in the National Parks Overflights
Advisory Group Aviation Rulemaking Committee
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), as required by the National Parks Air Tour
Management Act of 2000, established the National Parks Overflights
Advisory Group (NPOAG) in March 2001. The NPOAG was formed to provide
continuing advice and counsel with respect to commercial air tour
operations over and near national parks. This notice informs the public
of six vacancies (due to completion of membership on October 9, 2009)
on the NPOAG (now the NPOAG Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC)) for
members representing general aviation
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(one vacancy), commercial air tour operators (two vacancies),
environmental concerns (two vacancies), and Native American tribal
concerns (one vacancy) and invites interested persons to apply to fill
the vacancies.
DATES: Persons interested in serving on the NPOAG ARC should contact
Mr. Barry Brayer in writing and postmarked or e-mailed on or before May
20, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry Brayer, AWP-1SP, Special
Programs Staff, Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region
Headquarters, PO Box 92007, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007, telephone:
(310) 725-3800, e-mail: Barry.Brayer@faa.gov, or Karen Trevino,
National Park Service, Natural Sounds Program, 1201 Oakridge Dr., Suite
100, Ft. Collins, CO 80525, telephone (970) 225-3563, e-mail: Karen_
Trevino@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000 (the Act) was
enacted on April 5, 2000, as Public Law 106-181. The Act required the
establishment of the advisory group within 1 year after its enactment.
The advisory group was established in March 2001, and is comprised of 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 terms as
chairman of the advisory group.
The advisory group provides ``advice, information, and
recommendations to the Administrator and the Director--
(1) On the implementation of this title [the Act] and the
amendments made by this title;
(2) On commonly accepted quiet aircraft technology for use in
commercial air tour operations over a national park or tribal lands,
which will receive preferential treatment in a given air tour
management plan;
(3) On other measures that might be taken to accommodate the
interests of visitors to national parks; and
(4) At the request of the Administrator and the Director, safety,
environmental, and other issues related to commercial air tour
operations over a national park or tribal lands.''
Members of the advisory group may be allowed certain travel
expenses as authorized by section 5703 of Title 5, United States Code,
for intermittent Government service.
By FAA Order No. 1110-138, signed by the FAA Administrator on
October 10, 2003, the NPOAG became an Aviation Rulemaking Committee
(ARC). FAA Order No. 1110-138, was amended and became effective as FAA
Order No. 1110-138A, on January 20, 2006.
The current NPOAG ARC is made up of one member representing general
aviation, three members representing the commercial air tour industry,
four members representing environmental concerns, and two members
representing Native American tribal concerns. Current members of the
NPOAG ARC are: Claire Kultgen, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association;
Alan Stephen, fixed-winged air tour operator representative; Elling
Halvorson, Papillon Airways, Inc.; Matthew Zuccaro, Helicopters
Association International; Chip Dennerlein, Siskiyou Project; Gregory
Miller, American Hiking Society; Kristen Brengel, The Wilderness
Society; Don Barger, National Parks Conservation Association; Rory
Majenty, Huatapai Nation; and Richard Deertrack, Taos Pueblo.
Public Participation in the NPOAG ARC
In order to retain balance within the NPOAG ARC, the FAA and NPS
invite persons interested in serving on the ARC to represent general
aviation, commercial air tour operators, environmental concerns, or
Native American tribal concerns, to contact Mr. Barry Brayer (contact
information is written above in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Requests to serve on the ARC must be made to Mr. Brayer in writing
and postmarked or e-mailed on or before May 20, 2009. The request
should indicate whether or not you are a member of an association or
group representing general aviation, commercial air tours,
environmental concerns, or Native American tribal concerns or have
another affiliation with issues relating to aircraft flights over
national parks. The request should also state what expertise you would
bring to the NPOAG ARC as related to the vacancy you are seeking to
fill (e.g., general aviation). The term of service for NPOAG ARC
members is 3 years.
Issued in Hawthorne, CA on March 30, 2009.
Barry Brayer,
NPOAG Chairman, Manager, Special Programs Staff, Western-Pacific
Region.
[FR Doc. E9-7695 Filed 4-9-09; 8:45 am]