TSA Aircraft Repair Station Security Proposed Rulemaking
Federal Register, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an “Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Lead Emissions for Piston-Engine Aircraft Using Leaded Aviation Gasoline” (ANPR). The ANPR requests comment on data available for evaluating lead emissions, ambient concentrations, and potential exposure to lead from the use of leaded aviation gasoline (avgas). After considering this data and the comments received in response to the ANPR, EPA will determine whether lead emissions from leaded avgas cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare and, if so, establish standards to address lead emissions from piston-engine aircraft.
The ANPR contains information about the health and welfare effects of lead and statistics on lead emissions from piston-engine aircraft. Section IV of the ANPR summarizes available monitoring and modeling studies regarding lead concentrations in the airport vicinity. Ambient air sampling data from Santa Monica (CA), Van Nuys (CA), O’Hare (IL), Toronto Buttonville, and Destin (FL) airports is discussed. Additional data is expected to be garnered through promulgation of the 2008 lead monitoring requirements, which includes the placement of monitors where lead emissions are grater than or equal to one ton or more per year and in many urban areas. These additional monitoring sites are expected to include Van Nuys, Phoenix Deer Valley (AZ), Centennial (CO), and Daytona Beach (FL) airports.
The ANPR is available online at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-9603.pdf.
More information about this issue is available on EPA’s website at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/aviation.htm.
EPA is accepting comments on the ANPR until June 28, 2010. Please provide me with any comments by Friday, June 11, 2010.
NBAA Resources for Understanding, and Commenting on, the TSA's Aircraft Repair Station Security NPRM
Please forward any comments to chair@akairports.org.
FAA Alaskan Region Organization Chart
(udpdate DEC 2009)
FAA Airports Division-Steven Powell, reported the availability of FAA Order 5190.6B
Airport Compliance Manual
at
www.faa.gov/airports/resources/publications/orders/compliance_5190.6
The updated manual, published in the Federal Register on October 13, 2009, is effective upon issuance. Comments received by March 31, 2010 will be considered by the agency in a determination whether any further revision of the order is required. The new compliance manual, with appendixes, is reported to be over 600 pages.
