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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 154 / Friday, August 13, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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:
fr.inspection@nara.gov or go to https
www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/
ibr-locations.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colby Abbott, Rules and Regulations Group, Office of Policy, Federal Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202 2678783.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 modify the route structure as necessary to preserve the safe and efficient flow of air traffic within the National Airspace System NAS.

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Comments Invited 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
20210632; Airspace Docket No. 21

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ASW11 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. FAA20210632; Airspace Docket No. 21ASW11. 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 Service Center, Federal Aviation Administration, 10101 Hillwood Parkway, Fort Worth, TX, 76177.
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.

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Background The FAA is planning decommissioning activities for the VOR
portion of the Kingfisher, OK, VORTAC
in May 2022. The VOR portion of the Kingfisher, OK, VORTAC is a candidate VOR identified for discontinuance by the FAAs VOR MON program and listed in the final policy statement notice, Provision of Navigation Services for the Next Generation Air Transportation System NextGen Transition to Performance-Based Navigation PBN Plan for Establishing a VOR Minimum Operational Network, published in the Federal Register of July 26, 2016 81 FR 48694, Docket No. FAA20111082.
Although the VOR portion of the Kingfisher VORTAC is planned for decommissioning, the co-located DME
portion of the NAVAID is being retained to support Performance Based Navigation PBN procedures.
The existing ATS route dependencies to the Kingfisher, OK, VORTAC
NAVAID are Jet Route J8 and VOR
Federal airway V140. With the planned decommissioning of the VOR portion of the Kingfisher, OK, VORTAC, the remaining ground-based NAVAID
coverage in the area is insufficient to enable the continuity of these affected ATS routes. As such, proposed modifications to the routes would result in the creation of a gap in J8 and the creation of two gaps in V140.
To overcome the proposed gaps in the routes, instrument flight rules IFR
traffic could use adjacent ATS routes, including Jet Routes J6, J14, J20, J
78, and J98 in lieu of the affected J8
segment and VOR Federal airways V
14, V272, V436, and V440 in lieu of the affected V140 segment or receive air traffic control ATC radar vectors to fly through or circumnavigate the affected area. Additionally, IFR pilots equipped with RNAV capabilities could also navigate point to point using the existing fixes that will remain in place to support continued operations though the affected area. Visual flight rules VFR pilots who elect to navigate via the airways through the affected area could also take advantage of the adjacent VOR Federal airways or ATC
services listed previously.
Further, the FAA proposes to establish an RNAV route T422 between the Panhandle, TX, VORTAC and the Tulsa, OK, VORTAC to, in part, mitigate the proposed removal of the V140
airway segment affected by the planned decommissioning of the Kingfisher VOR. Also, establishing T422 would provide RNAV routing capability between the Amarillo, TX, area
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