[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 62627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25483]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Cancellation of Preparation of Environmental Impact
Statement for the Tucson International Airport, Tucson, Pima County, AZ
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of cancellation of preparation of environmental impact
statement.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces that it
has decided to discontinue preparation of an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the proposed relocation of Runway 11R/29L and
associated development at Tucson International Airport. The FAA's
decision to discontinue preparation of the EIS is based upon the
results from a planning effort completed by the Tucson Airport
Authority (TAA), the owner and operator of the airport. This planning
effort reveled the project purpose and need has changed significantly.
As a result, FAA has determined the new runway proposal at Tucson
International Airport is not ripe for decision at this time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roxana Hernandez, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific
Region, Los Angeles Airports District Office, P.O. Box 92007, Los
Angeles, CA 90009-2007, Telephone: (310) 725-3614.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 13, 2005, the FAA, published in
the Federal Register a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and hold a Public Scoping Meeting at Tucson
International Airport (Volume 70, Number 197, FR 59800-59801). The EIS
and Public Scoping Meeting were to address the proposed relocation of
Runway 11R/29L and associated development at airport.
In 2005, the FAA based its decision to prepare the EIS on the
procedures described in FAA Order 5050.4A, Airport Environmental
Handbook, and FAA Order 1050.1E, Environmental Impacts: Policies and
Procedures. FAA also based its decision to prepare a federal EIS
primarily on TAA's proposal to relocate Runway 11R/29L, 450 feet to the
southwest, creating a centerline to centerline separation of 1,156 feet
between the existing Runway 11L29R. The length of the relocated Runway
11R/29L would have been 11,000 feet long by 150 feet wide.
Recently, the TAA completed a planning effort that reveled that the
project's purpose and need changed significantly. Therefore, when the
TAA submits a new Airport Layout Plan with a revised project depicted
on it, the FAA will determine the appropriate National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) documentation necessary to assess the environmental
effects of those improvements pursuant to FAA Order 5050.4B, National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Instructions for Airport
Actions, and FAA Order 1050.1E, Environmental Impacts: Policies and
Procedures.
Issued in Hawthorne, California on September 30, 2010.
Debbie Roth,
Acting Manager, Airports Division, Western--Pacific Region, AWP-600.
[FR Doc. 2010-25483 Filed 10-8-10; 8:45 am]
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