Overflights of Units of the National Park System; Proposed Rule DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

SUMMARY: This document announces an extension of the comment period on

Notice 94-4 entitled, ``Overflights of Units of the National Park

System'' (59 FR 12740; March 17, 1994). This comment period is extended

from June 15, 1994, until July 15, 1994. The extension responds to the

request of the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) and

is needed to permit NCPA, and other affected parties, additional time

to develop comments responsive to Notice 94-4.

DATES: The comment period is being extended from June 15, 1994, to July

15, 1994.

ADDRESSES: As stated in Notice 94-4, comments should be mailed, in

triplicate, to: Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Chief

Counsel, Attention: Rules Docket (AGC-200), Docket No. 27643, 800

Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. All comments must be

marked: ``Docket No. 27643.'' Comments on this notice may be examined

in room 915G on weekdays, except on Federal holidays, between 8:30 a.m.

and 5 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David L. Bennett, Office of Chief Counsel, AGC-600, Federal Aviation

Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591,

telephone (202) 267-3473, or Michael M. Tiernan, Office of the

Solicitor, Department of Interior (DOI), 18th and C Streets, NW.,

Washington, DC 2040, telephone (202) 208-7597.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 17, 1994, the FAA issued Notice No.

94-4, entitled ``Overflights of Units of the National Park System.''

Notice No. 94-4 sought comment on general policy and specific

recommendations for voluntary and regulatory actions to address the

effects of aircraft overflights on national parks.

By a request dated May 12, 1994, the NPCA asked that the comment

period be extended 30 days. The NPCA explained that, unlike the airtour

industry and other vested interests that have formed cohesive groups

with streamlined communications systems, its 400,000 members are

individual citizens who share an interest of protecting and preserving

the national parks and national park values and are reliant on periodic

contact with the NPCA. It indicated that the additional time would

allow it to make the contents of the notice available to interested

members, and allow it sufficient time to digest the notice and draft

and file comments.

In order to give the NCPA and its members additional time to

prepare comments, the FAA finds that it would be in the public interest

to extend the comment period by 30 days. Accordingly, the comment

period is being extended to July 15, 1994, to afford all interested

persons the opportunity to comment on this notice.

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 10, 1994.

Harold W. Becker,

Acting Director, Air Traffic Rules and Procedures Service, Federal

Aviation Administration.

Michael V. Finley,

Acting Associate Director, Operations, National Park Service.

[FR Doc. 94-14953 Filed 6-15-94; 3:10 pm]

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