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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 209 / Tuesday, November 2, 2021 / Proposed Rules Comments Invited
NAVAID. The Borger VOR is being decommissioned in support of the FAAs VOR Minimum Operational Network MON program.
Comments must be received on or before December 17, 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:
1800 6475527, or 202 3669826.
You must identify FAA Docket No.
FAA20210821; Airspace Docket No.
21ASW1 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.

ADDRESSES:

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:

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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 modify the National Airspace System NAS as necessary to preserve the safe and efficient flow of air traffic.

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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
20210821; Airspace Docket No. 21
ASW1 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. FAA20210821; Airspace Docket No. 21ASW1. 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, 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 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 Borger, TX, VOR in July 2022. The Borger 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 Borger VORTAC is planned for decommissioning, the co-located Tactical Air Navigation TACAN
portion of the NAVAID, which includes Distance Measuring Equipment DME
service, is being retained to support NextGen PBN flight procedure requirements.
The air traffic service ATS routes effected by the Borger VOR
decommissioning are Jet Routes J8 and J142, and VOR Federal airways V272, V304, and V390. With the planned decommissioning of the Borger VOR, the remaining ground-based NAVAID
coverage in the area is insufficient to enable the continuity of the affected ATS routes. As such, proposed modification to J8 would result in a gap in the route and to V272 would result in the airway being shortened, as well as the proposed revocation of J
142, V304, and V390 in their entirety.
To overcome the proposed modifications and revocations to the affected ATS routes, instrument flight rules IFR traffic could use portions of adjacent ATS routes, including J6, J
14, J58, J76, J78, and J98 in the high altitude enroute structure and V12, V
47, V81, V190, V280, and V402 in the low altitude enroute structure, or receive air traffic control ATC radar
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