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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT
§ 11.71
P
UBLIC
M
EETINGS AND
O
THER
P
ROCEEDINGS
§ 11.51
May I request that FAA hold a
public meeting on a rulemaking ac-
tion?
Yes, you may request that we hold a
public meeting. FAA holds a public
meeting when we need more than writ-
ten comments to make a fully in-
formed decision. Submit your written
request to the address specified in the
rulemaking document on which you
are commenting. Specify at the top of
your letter or message that you are re-
questing that the agency hold a public
meeting. Submit your request no later
than 30 days after our rulemaking no-
tice. If we find good cause for a meet-
ing, we will notify you and publish a
notice of the meeting in the F
EDERAL
R
EGISTER
.
§ 11.53
What takes place at a public
meeting?
A public meeting is a non-adver-
sarial, fact-finding proceeding con-
ducted by an FAA representative. Pub-
lic meetings are announced in the F
ED
-
ERAL
R
EGISTER
. We invite interested
persons to attend and to present their
views to the agency on specific issues.
There are no formal pleadings and no
adverse parties, and any regulation
issued afterward is not necessarily
based exclusively on the record of the
meeting.
P
ETITIONS FOR
R
ULEMAKING AND FOR
E
XEMPTION
§ 11.61
May I ask FAA to adopt, amend,
or repeal a regulation, or grant re-
lief from the requirements of a cur-
rent regulation?
(a) Using a petition for rulemaking,
you may ask FAA to add a new regula-
tion to title 14 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (14 CFR) or ask FAA to
amend or repeal a current regulation in
14 CFR.
(b) Using a petition for exemption,
you may ask FAA to grant you relief
from current regulations in 14 CFR.
§ 11.63
How and to whom do I submit
my petition for rulemaking or peti-
tion for exemption?
(a) To submit a petition for rule-
making or exemption—
(1) By electronic submission, submit
your petition for rulemaking or exemp-
tion to the FAA through the internet
at
http://www.regulations.gov, the Fed-
eral Docket Management System
website. For additional instructions,
you may visit
http://www.faa.gov, and
navigate to the Rulemaking home
page.
(2) By paper submission, send the
original signed copy of your petition
for rulemaking or exemption to this
address: U.S. Department of Transpor-
tation, Docket Operations, West Build-
ing Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590.
(b) Submit a petition for rulemaking
or exemption from part 139 of this
chapter—
(1) To the appropriate FAA airport
field office in whose area your airport
is, or will be, established; and
(2) To the U.S. Department of Trans-
portation, Docket Operations, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Wash-
ington, DC 20590 or by electronic sub-
mission to this Internet address:
http://
www.regulations.gov.
(c) The FAA may designate other
means by which you can submit peti-
tions in the future.
(d) Submit your petition for exemp-
tion 120 days before you need the ex-
emption to take effect.
[Amdt. 11–50, 69 FR 22386, Apr. 26, 2004, as
amended at 72 FR 68474, Dec. 5, 2007; Amdt.
11–55, 74 FR 202, Jan. 5, 2009; FAA–2016–6761,
Amdt. No. 11–62, 83 FR 28534, June 20, 2016]
§ 11.71
What information must I in-
clude in my petition for rule-
making?
(a) You must include the following
information in your petition for rule-
making:
(1) Your name and mailing address
and, if you wish, other contact infor-
mation such as a fax number, tele-
phone number, or e-mail address.
(2) An explanation of your proposed
action and its purpose.
(3) The language you propose for a
new or amended rule, or the language
you would remove from a current rule.
(4) An explanation of why your pro-
posed action would be in the public in-
terest.
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