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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 39 / Tuesday, March 2, 2021 / Proposed Rules Comments Invited
FAAs VOR Minimum Operational Network MON program.
Comments must be received on or before April 16, 2021.

DATES:

Send comments on this proposal to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12140, Washington, DC 20590; telephone: 800
6475527, or 202 3669826. You must identify FAA Docket No. FAA2021
0054; Airspace Docket No. 20AGL34
at the beginning of your comments. You may also submit comments through the internet at https www.regulations.gov.
FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, and subsequent amendments can be viewed online at https www.faa.gov/air_
traffic/publications/. For further information, you can contact the Rules and Regulations Group, Federal Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202 2678783.
The Order is also available for inspection at the National Archives and Records Administration NARA. For information on the availability of FAA
Order 7400.11E at NARA, email:
fedreg.legal@nara.gov or go to https
www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/
ibr-locations.html.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jesse Acevedo, Rules and Regulations Group, Office of Policy, Federal Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202 2678783.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Authority for This Rulemaking The FAAs authority to issue rules regarding aviation safety is found in Title 49 of the United States Code.
Subtitle I, Section 106 describes the authority of the FAA Administrator.
Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, describes in more detail the scope of the agencys authority. This rulemaking is promulgated under the authority described in Subtitle VII, Part A, Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that section, the FAA is charged with prescribing regulations to assign the use of the airspace necessary to ensure the safety of aircraft and the efficient use of airspace. This regulation is within the scope of that authority as it would expand the availability of RNAV in the central United States and improve the efficient flow of air traffic within the NAS by lessening the dependency on ground-based navigation.

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Interested parties are invited to participate in this proposed rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments as they may desire.
Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal. Comments are specifically invited on the overall regulatory, aeronautical, economic, environmental, and energy-related aspects of the proposal.
Communications should identify both docket numbers FAA Docket No. FAA
20210054; Airspace Docket No. 20
AGL34 and be submitted in triplicate to the Docket Management Facility see ADDRESSES section for address and phone number. You may also submit comments through the internet at https www.regulations.gov.
Commenters wishing the FAA to acknowledge receipt of their comments on this action must submit with those comments a self-addressed, stamped postcard on which the following statement is made: Comments to FAA
Docket No. FAA20210054; Airspace Docket No. 20AGL34. The postcard will be date/time stamped and returned to the commenter.
All communications received on or before the specified comment closing date will be considered before taking action on the proposed rule. The proposal contained in this action may be changed in light of comments received. All comments submitted will be available for examination in the public docket both before and after the comment closing date. A report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel concerned with this rulemaking will be filed in the docket.
Availability of NPRMs An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded through the internet at https www.regulations.gov.
Recently published rulemaking documents can also be accessed through the FAAs web page at https
www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/
airspace_amendments/.
You may review the public docket containing the proposal, any comments received and any final disposition in person in the Dockets Office see ADDRESSES section for address and phone number between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. An informal docket may also be examined during normal business hours at the office of the Operations Support Group, Central
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Availability and Summary of Documents for Incorporation by Reference This document proposes to amend FAA Order 7400.11E, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, dated July 21, 2020 and effective September 15, 2020. FAA Order 7400.11E is publicly available as listed in the ADDRESSES section of this document. FAA Order 7400.11E lists Class A, B, C, D, and E airspace areas, air traffic service routes, and reporting points.
Background In 2003, Congress enacted the Vision 100Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act Pub. L. 108176, which established a joint planning and development office in the FAA to manage the work related to the Next Generation Air Transportation System NextGen. Today, NextGen is an ongoing FAA-led modernization of the nations air transportation system to make flying safer, more efficient, and more predictable.
In support of NextGen efforts to improve the safety and efficiency of the NAS, as well as transition the NAS from a ground-based to a satellite-based Performance Based Navigation PBN
system, the FAA is proposing to establish RNAV routes T322, T392, T403, and T405 to provide additional PBN enroute structure. This action would reduce air traffic control ATC
sector workload and complexity, reduce pilot-to-controller communication, assist ATC when non-radar procedures are required, and increase NAS capacity in the areas of the new RNAV T-routes.
Additionally, the proposed T-routes would compensate for the previously removed airway segments of VOR
Federal airways due to the Sioux City, IA; Park Rapids, MN; and Huron, SD, VORs being decommissioned effective February 25, 2021. The new T-routes would also provide Instrument Flight Rules IFR pilots that are equipped for RNAV PBN additional ATS route options for navigating around areas of heavy aviation activity and in areas of limited or no radar coverage. Visual Flight Rules VFR pilots, equipped with RNAV PBN, who elect to navigate via ATS routes, could also take advantage of the proposed RNAV T-routes.
The new routes will also assist in reducing workload and sector complexity for air traffic controllers, facilitate reduction of air to ground communications, and assist in
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