Day: September 3, 2021
Call: Gina Kerzman, 406-888-5838
WEST GLACIER, Mont. [September 3, 2021] – The National Park Services (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are trying to find community comments on a draft Air Tour Management Program (ATMP) that is becoming proposed for Glacier Countrywide Park.
The businesses really encourage anyone with an desire in or worry about air tours about Glacier Countrywide Park to evaluation and comment on the draft ATMP. The proposed plan would authorize the present business air tour operators to offer up to 144 air tours for each year on described routes. This is the three-12 months ordinary between 2017-2019 for these operators. The draft ATMP also features a provision to section out industrial air excursions by means of attrition, which is regular with the Park’s General Administration System.
General public comments can be presented as a result of the NPS Setting up, Surroundings and Public Remark (PEPC) website from September 3, 2021 via October 3, 2021. The NPS and FAA will take into account responses to help inform the final ATMP for Glacier Nationwide Park. The job web site is offered at: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/GlacierATMP
A general public assembly for Glacier National Park’s ATMP is scheduled Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:30-6:00 pm MT / 6:30-8:00 pm ET and will be livestreamed through YouTube, Fb, and Twitter. Hyperlinks to meeting notifications and recordings will be posted to the project web page.
“We inspire everyone who is intrigued in air tours around the park to share their ideas on the proposed prepare for Glacier National Park on the project site,” stated Pete Webster, Performing Superintendent. “The draft prepare proceeds scenic air tour action in excess of the park at present amounts whilst lowering the number of flight allocations annually from what was set in the course of the interim operating authority supplied by the Countrywide Air Tour Management Act. It achieves the course, established forth in Glacier’s Normal Administration Approach, to inevitably phase out air tour exercise in excess of Glacier National Park.”
Glacier National Park is among the 24 parks of the National Park System producing air tour administration programs in cooperation with the FAA. The companies hope to full all air tour administration designs by the end of August 2022. The program is part of a approach authorized by the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the organizations to comply with the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000 within two years.
Please go to this NPS site and this FAA web-site for more thorough information about air tour administration plans.
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