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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 209 / Tuesday, November 2, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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VOR Federal airways V161, V190, and V307, and revoke V516. The FAA
is proposing this action due to the planned decommissioning of the VOR
portion of the Oswego, KS, VOR/
Distance Measuring Equipment VOR/
DME navigational aid NAVAID. The Oswego VOR is being decommissioned in support of the FAAs VOR Minimum Operational Network MON program.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 17, 2021.
ADDRESSES: 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:
1800 6475527, or 202 3669826.
You must identify FAA Docket No.
FAA20210849; Airspace Docket No.
21ACE17 at the beginning of your comments. You may also submit comments through the internet at https www.regulations.gov.
FAA Order JO 7400.11F, 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.
FAA Order JO 7400.11F is also available for inspection at the National Archives and Records Administration NARA.
For information on the availability of FAA Order JO 7400.11F at NARA, email: fr.inspection@nara.gov or go to https www.archives.gov/federalregister/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
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scope of that authority as it would modify the National Airspace System as necessary to preserve the safe and efficient flow of air traffic.
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
20210849; Airspace Docket No. 21
ACE17 and be submitted in triplicate to the Docket Management Facility see the 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. FAA20210849; Airspace Docket No. 21ACE17. 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 the ADDRESSES section for address and phone number between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,
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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 JO 7400.11F, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, dated August 10, 2021, and effective September 15, 2021. FAA Order JO
7400.11F is publicly available as listed in the ADDRESSES section of this document. FAA Order JO 7400.11F lists Class A, B, C, D, and E airspace areas, air traffic service routes, and reporting points.
Background The FAA is planning to decommission the Oswego, KS, VOR in July 2022. The Oswego VOR was one of the candidate VORs 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 PerformanceBased 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 Oswego VOR/DME is planned for decommissioning, the co-located Distance Measuring Equipment DME is being retained to support NextGen PBN
flight procedure requirements.
The VOR Federal airways effected by the Oswego VOR decommissioning are V161, V190, V307, and V516. With the planned decommissioning of the Oswego VOR, the remaining groundbased NAVAID coverage in the area is insufficient to enable the continuity of the affected airways. As such, proposed modifications to V161 and V307
would result in gaps in the airways and to V190 would result in the airway being shortened, as well as the proposed revocation of V516 in its entirety. To overcome the proposed modifications and revocation to the affected airways, instrument flight rules IFR traffic could use portions of adjacent VOR
Federal airways, including V63, V73, V88, V131, V132, V140, and V350, or receive air traffic control ATC radar vectors to fly around or through the affected area. Additionally, IFR pilots equipped with RNAV capabilities could also navigate point to point using the
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