Notice2025-24122
Extension of Comment Period of Proposed Voluntary Agreement for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Muir Woods National Monument
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Published
December 31, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
The FAA, in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), announces the extension of the public comment period on the proposed Voluntary Agreement for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Muir Woods National Monument from January 2, 2026, to January 9, 2026. On December 2, 2025, the agencies announced a comment period ending January 2, 2026. Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61497-61498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-24122]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Extension of Comment Period of Proposed Voluntary Agreement for
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Maritime National
Historical Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, and Muir Woods National
Monument
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The FAA, in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS),
announces the extension of the public comment period on the proposed
Voluntary Agreement for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San
Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Point Reyes National
Seashore, and Muir Woods National Monument from January 2, 2026, to
January 9, 2026. On December 2, 2025, the agencies announced a comment
period ending January 2, 2026. Comments previously submitted need not
be resubmitted.
DATES: The comment period for the notice published at 90 FR 55328 on
December 2, 2025, is extended. Comments must be received by 10:59 p.m.
PST January 9, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Comments will be received on the NPS Planning, Environment
and Public Comment System (PEPC) website. The PEPC website address is:
<a href="https://parkplanning.nps.gov/bayareaairtours25">https://parkplanning.nps.gov/bayareaairtours25</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandi Fox, telephone: (202) 267-0928,
email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e093818e849281ce99ce868f98a0868181ce878f96"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ee9d8f808a9c8fc097c0888196ae888f8fc0898198">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA is issuing this notice pursuant to
the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-181
(<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/link/plaw/106/public/181?link-type=html">https://www.govinfo.gov/link/plaw/106/public/181?link-type=html</a>) and
its implementing regulations contained in title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations, part 136, subpart B, National Parks Air
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Tour Management. The Act requires that commercial air tour operators
conducting or intending to conduct commercial air tours over a unit of
the National Park system to apply to the FAA for operating authority
before engaging in that activity. The Act further requires the FAA and
the NPS to establish an air tour management plan (ATMP) for each
National Park System unit for which one or more commercial air tour
applications have been submitted unless that unit is exempt from this
requirement.
As an alternative to an ATMP, the FAA and the NPS may enter into a
voluntary agreement with a commercial air tour operator who has applied
to conduct commercial air tour operations over a national park
including an operator that has interim operating authority for the park
or a new entrant commercial air tour operator. Voluntary agreements
must address the management issues necessary to protect the resources
and visitor use of the park without compromising aviation safety or the
air traffic control system. A voluntary agreement may also include
conditions for the conduct of air tour operations and provisions to
ensure stability of and compliance with the voluntary agreement. Each
voluntary agreement reflects the provisions and conditions appropriate
for the national park to which the agreement applies.
The San Francisco Bay Area Parks ATMP was finalized on January 11,
2023. A subsequent lawsuit led to a court order that the ATMP be
vacated (Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration, 121
F.4th 902 (D.C. Cir. 2024)), though the ATMP temporarily remains in
place due to a stay of that order. Consequently, the agencies
determined that development of a voluntary agreement is appropriate to
comply with the Act before the end of the court's stay on February 28,
2026. Operators have agreed to engage in the voluntary agreement
process.
Individual voluntary agreements will be established with each
operator for the Park. Part 135 operators who have been granted interim
operating authority for the Parks are included in this voluntary
agreement and operators who have applied for authority to conduct tours
of the Park are also included.
Written comments on the proposed voluntary agreement can be
submitted via PEPC. Comments will not be accepted by fax, email, or any
other way than as specified above. All written comments become part of
the official record. Before including your address, phone number, email
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire comment, including your personal
identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Dated: December 29, 2025.
Sandra Fox,
Environmental Protection Specialist.
[FR Doc. 2025-24122 Filed 12-30-25; 8:45 am]
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