[Federal Register: February 25, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 36)]
[Notices]
[Page 8612-8613]
[DOCID:fr25fe09-118]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Noise Exposure Map Notice for Buckeye Municipal Airport, Buckeye,
AZ

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its
determination that the noise exposure maps submitted by the Town of
Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona for Buckeye Municipal Airport under
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 47501 et seq. (Aviation Safety and Noise
Abatement Act) and 14 CFR part 150 are in compliance with applicable
requirements.

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date of the FAA's determination on
the noise exposure maps is September 22, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victor Globa, Federal Aviation
Administration, Los Angeles Airports District Office, 15000 Aviation
Boulevard, Hawthorne, California 90261-1000, Telephone: 310/725-3637.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces that the FAA finds
that the noise exposure maps submitted for Buckeye Municipal Airport
are in compliance with applicable requirements of Part 150, effective
September 22, 2008. Under 49 U.S.C. 47503 of the Aviation Safety and
Noise Abatement Act (hereinafter referred to as ``the Act''), an
airport operator may submit to the FAA noise exposure maps which meet
applicable regulations and which depict non-compatible land uses as of
the date of submission of such maps, a description of projected
aircraft operations, and the ways in which such operations will affect
such maps. The Act requires such maps to be developed in consultation
with interested and affected parties in the local community, government
agencies, and persons using the airport. An airport operator who has
submitted noise exposure maps that are found by FAA to be in compliance
with the requirements of Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 150,
promulgated pursuant to the Act, may submit a noise compatibility
program for FAA approval which sets forth the measures the operator has
taken or proposes to take to reduce existing non-compatible uses and
prevent the introduction of additional non-compatible uses.
    The FAA has completed its review of the noise exposure maps and
accompanying documentation submitted by the Town of Buckeye, Buckeye,
Arizona. The documentation that constitutes the ``Noise Exposure Maps''
as defined in section 150.7 of Part 150 includes: Exhibit I ``Existing
Aircraft Operations (2006) Noise Exposure Map,'' and Exhibit 2
``Projected Aircraft Operations (2011) Noise Exposure Map.'' The Noise
Exposure Maps contain current and forecast information including the
depiction of the airport and its boundaries, the runway configurations,
land uses such as residential, open space, commercial/office, community
facilities, libraries, churches, open space, infrastructure, vacant and
warehouse and those areas within the Yearly Day-Night Average Sound
Level (DNL) 65, 70 and 75 noise contours. Estimates for the number of
people within these contours for the year 2006 are shown in Table 46.
Estimates of the future residential population within the 2011 noise
contours are shown in Table 4E. Flight tracks for the existing and the
five-year forecast Noise Exposure Maps are found in Figures 3D, 3E and
3F. The type and frequency of aircraft operations (including nighttime
operations) are found in Table 3C. The FAA has determined that these
noise exposure maps and accompanying documentation are in compliance
with applicable requirements. This determination is effective on
September 22, 2008.
    FAA's determination on an airport operator's noise exposure maps is
limited to a finding that the maps were developed in accordance with
the procedures contained in Appendix A of FAR Part 150. Such
determination does not constitute approval of the applicant's data,
information or plans, or a commitment to approve a noise compatibility
program or to fund the implementation of that program. If questions
arise concerning the precise relationship of specific properties to
noise exposure contours depicted on a noise exposure map submitted
under section 47503 of the Act, it should be noted that the FAA is not
involved in any way in determining the relative locations of specific
properties with regard to the depicted noise contours, or

in interpreting the noise exposure maps to resolve questions
concerning, for example, which properties should be covered by the
provisions of section 47506 of the Act. These functions are inseparable
from the ultimate land use control and planning responsibilities of
local government. These local responsibilities are not changed in any
way under Part 150 or through FAA's review of noise exposure maps.
Therefore, the responsibility for the detailed overlaying of noise
exposure contours onto the map depicting properties on the surface
rests exclusively with the airport operator that submitted those maps,
or with those public agencies and planning agencies with which
consultation is required under section 47503 of the Act. The FAA has
relied on the certification by the airport operator, under section
150.21 of FAR Part 150, that the statutorily required consultation has
been accomplished.
    Copies of the full noise exposure map documentation and of the
FAA's evaluation of the maps are available for examination at the
following locations:

Federal Aviation Administration, Community and Environmental Needs
Division, APP-600, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591-
0001.
Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region, Airports
Division, Room 3012, 15000 Aviation Boulevard, Hawthorne, California
90261-1000.
Federal Aviation Administration, Los Angeles Airports District Office,
15000 Aviation Boulevard, Room 3000, Hawthorne, California 90261-1000.
Ann Quigley, Airport Manager, Buckeye Municipal Airport, 423 Arizona
Eastern Avenue, Buckeye, AZ 85326.

    Questions may be directed to the individual named above under the
heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

    Issued in Hawthorne, California on February 13, 2009.
George E. Aiken,
Acting Manager, Airports Division, AWP-600, Western-Pacific Region.
[FR Doc. E9-3816 Filed 2-24-09; 8:45 am]

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