Notice2022-15524
Termination of the Preparation of an Air Tour Management Plan at Everglades National Park, Florida
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Published
July 21, 2022
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS) (together, the agencies), announces that it has discontinued its preparation of the Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP) for commercial air tour operations over Everglades National Park in Florida because the sole air tour operator with interim operating authority (IOA) for the park voluntarily surrendered its Part 135 operating certificate and is no longer authorized to conduct tours over the park. In addition, the voluntary agreements between the operator and the agencies for Biscayne National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve have been terminated and the operator will be deleted from the FAA's records of authorized commercial air tour operators.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 139 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 43595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15524]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Termination of the Preparation of an Air Tour Management Plan at
Everglades National Park, Florida
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration.
ACTION: Notice of Termination of the Preparation of Air Tour Management
Plan.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in cooperation with
the National Park Service (NPS) (together, the agencies), announces
that it has discontinued its preparation of the Air Tour Management
Plan (ATMP) for commercial air tour operations over Everglades National
Park in Florida because the sole air tour operator with interim
operating authority (IOA) for the park voluntarily surrendered its Part
135 operating certificate and is no longer authorized to conduct tours
over the park. In addition, the voluntary agreements between the
operator and the agencies for Biscayne National Park and Big Cypress
National Preserve have been terminated and the operator will be deleted
from the FAA's records of authorized commercial air tour operators.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Lusk, Program Manager, AWP-1SP,
Federal Aviation Administration, Western-Pacific Region, 777 South
Aviation Boulevard, Suite 150, El Segundo, California 90245. Telephone:
(424) 405-7017.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a September 3, 2020 Federal Register
notice (85 FR 55060), the FAA in cooperation with the National Park
Service (NPS) provided notice of its intent to complete Air Tour
Management Plans (ATMPs) for 23 National Park System units. The
agencies began developing ATMPs for these parks, including Everglades
National Park, pursuant to the National Parks Air Tour Management Act
of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-181) and its implementing regulations contained in
14 CFR part 136, subpart B, National Parks Air Tour Management.
In a July 29, 2021 Federal Register notice (86 FR 40897), the FAA,
in cooperation with the NPS, announced public meetings and the
availability of proposed ATMPs for four National Park System units,
including Everglades National Park. The agencies posted the draft ATMP
for Everglades National Park on their respective websites and took
comments over a 30-day period on the NPS Planning, Environment, and
Public Comment System website. The agencies conducted a public meeting
for the proposed ATMP for Everglades National Park on August 19, 2021.
On April 13, 2022, the sole operator with interim operating
authority (IOA) for Everglades National Park voluntarily surrendered
its Part 135 certificate. This certificate is required by the FAA for
an operator that provides air transportation of persons or property for
compensation or hire. Upon surrender of a Part 135 certificate, all
authorizations given to an operator through its Operations
Specifications are cancelled, including IOA to conduct commercial air
tours over a park. In this case, the operator also had IOA for Biscayne
National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Dry Tortugas National
Park. Given that the operator is no longer authorized to conduct air
tours over any of these parks, the operator will be deleted from the
FAA's records of authorized commercial air tour operators.
As the sole operator conducting commercial air tours over
Everglades National Park has voluntarily surrendered its operating
certificate and no longer has the authority to conduct air tours over
the park, an ATMP is no longer required or needed at this time. 49
U.S.C. 40128(b)(1)(A). Therefore, the FAA, in cooperation with the NPS,
has discontinued its preparation of an ATMP for Everglades National
Park.
The FAA and the NPS had also previously entered into voluntary
agreements for the conduct of commercial air tours over Big Cypress
National Preserve and Biscayne National Park with this same operator
under 49 U.S.C. 40128(b)(7). This notice also announces that both of
these voluntary agreements have been terminated due to the operator's
voluntary surrender of its operating certificate and with it, its
authority to conduct air tours over both Big Cypress National Preserve
and Biscayne National Park.
Issued in El Segundo, California, on July 15, 2022.
Keith Lusk,
Program Manager, Special Programs Staff, Western-Pacific Region.
[FR Doc. 2022-15524 Filed 7-20-22; 8:45 am]
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