"Operating Limitations at Chicago O'Hare Int'l Airport; Extension of Request for Written Information"

Monday, August 16, 2004

Operating Limitations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport;
Extension of Request for Written Information
The Federal Register


DATES: Written information must be received on or before 12 p.m. on
August 13, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may send written information, identified by docket number
FAA-2004-16944, by any of the following methods:

* DOT Docket Web site: Go to http://dms.dot.gov and follow the
instructions for submitting information electronically.

* Fax: 1-202-493-2251.

* Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401, Washington, DC
20590-001. If sent by mail, information is to be submitted in two
copies. Persons wishing to receive confirmation of receipt of their
written submission should include a self-addressed stamped postcard.

* Hand Delivery: Docket Management System, Room PL-401 on the plaza
level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.

For more information on this proceeding, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.

Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket number
FAA-2004-16944 for this notice at the beginning of the information that
you submit. Note that the information received will be posted without
change to http://dms.dot.gov, including any personal information
provided.

Docket: To read background documents or review information received, go
to http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL-401 on the plaza level
of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerry Shakley, System Operations, Air
Traffic Organization, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence
Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-9424, facsimile:
(202) 267-7277; e-mail: gerry.shakley@xxxxxxxx

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On July 28, 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a
notice announcing that it would conduct a meeting to discuss flight
reductions at O'Hare to reduce over scheduling and flight delays
during peak hours at the airport (69 FR 46201; August 2, 2004). The FAA
also invited the submission of written information from interested
person on such schedule reductions. The FAA plans to issue a decision on
delay reductions in a final order. The meeting began on August 4 and is
continuing. It was open to all scheduled carriers, regardless of whether
they currently serve O'Hare. The FAA originally solicited written
information filed on or before August 11, 2004.

Extension of Request for Information

Discussions with the air carriers regarding their scheduled operations
at O'Hare are continuing. The FAA designated a short period for
submitting information, as the FAA has previously indicated its
intentions to address this issue as soon as possible to accommodate the
implementation of the air carriers' November 2004 schedules. Given
that the discussions are continuing, the FAA finds that it would benefit
the public and the agency to keep the public docket open for as long as
possible to afford interested persons more time to submit written
information.

The FAA will provide actual notice to all parties that attended the
meeting. The FAA has determined that extension of the period for
submitting written information is consistent with the public interest,
and that good cause exists for taking this action. Accordingly, the
period is extended until 12 p.m. on August 13, 2004.

We will consider all information we receive on or before the extended
closing date. We will consider information filed late if it is possible
to do so without incurring expense or delay.

Public Availability and Confidentiality of Information

Except as provided below, we will file in the docket without change all
information we receive. The docket is available for public inspection
before and after its closing date. If you wish to review the docket in
person, go to the address in the ADDRESSES section of this preamble
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. You may also review the docket via the Internet at the Web
address in the ADDRESSES section.

Proprietary or Confidential Business Information: As a result of the
written information's availability to the public, do not file with
the docket information that you consider to be proprietary or
confidential business information. Send or deliver this information
directly to the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this document. In addition, please mark the information that
you consider proprietary or confidential. If you send the information on
a disk or CD-ROM, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM and also
identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific
information that is proprietary or confidential.

Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), when we are aware of proprietary information
filed with a submission, we do not place it in the docket. We hold it in
a separate file to which the public does not have access, and place a
note in the docket that we have received it. If we receive a request to
examine or copy this information, we treat it as any other request under
the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). We process such a request
under the DOT procedures found in 49 CFR part 7.

Privacy Act: Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone
can find and read the information received in any docket, including the
name of the individual submitting the information or signing on behalf
of a submitting organization. You may review DOT's complete Privacy
Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000, (65
FR 19477-78) or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 11, 2004.

Andrew B. Steinberg,
Chief Counsel


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