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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 93.321 

number of commercial air tours con-
ducted by the certificate holder and re-
ported to the FAA during the period 
beginning on May 1, 1997 and ending on 
April 30, 1998, unless excepted under 
paragraph (g). 

(c) Certificate holders who conducted 

commercial air tours during the base 
year and reported them to the FAA re-
ceive an initial allocation. 

(d) A certificate holder must use one 

allocation for each flight that is a com-
mercial air tour, unless excepted under 
paragraph (f) or (g) of this section. 

(e) Each certificate holder’s oper-

ation specifications will identify the 
following information, as applicable: 

(1) Total SFRA allocations; and 
(2) Dragon corridor and Zuni Point 

corridor allocations. 

(f) Certificate holders satisfying the 

requirements of § 93.315 of this subpart 
are not required to use a commercial 
air tour allocation for each commercial 
air tour flight in the GCNP SFRA pro-
vided the following conditions are sat-
isfied: 

(1) The certificate holder conducts its 

operations in conformance with the 
routes and airspace authorizations as 
specified in its Grand Canyon National 
Park Special Flight Rules Area oper-
ations specifications; 

(2) The certificate holder must have 

executed a written contract with the 
Hualapai Indian Nation which grants 
the certificate holder a trespass permit 
and specifies the maximum number of 
flights to be permitted to land at 
Grand Canyon West Airport and at 
other sites located in the vicinity of 
that airport and operates in compli-
ance with that contract; and 

(3) The certificate holder must have a 

valid operations specification that au-
thorizes the certificate holder to con-
duct the operations specified in the 
contract with the Hualapai Indian Na-
tion and specifically approves the num-
ber of operations that may transit the 
Grand Canyon National Park Special 
Flight Rules Area under this exception. 

(g) Certificate holders conducting 

commercial air tours at or above 14,500 
feet MSL but below 18,000 feet MSL 
who did not receive initial allocations 
in 1999 because they were not required 
to report during the base year may op-
erate without an allocation when con-

ducting air tours at those altitudes. 
Certificate holders conducting com-
mercial air tours in the area affected 
by the eastward shift of the SFRA who 
did not receive initial allocations in 
1999 because they were not required to 
report during the base year may con-
tinue to operate on the specified routes 
without an allocation in the area 
bounded by longitude line 111 degrees 
42 minutes east and longitude line 111 
degrees 36 minutes east. This exception 
does not include operation in the Zuni 
Point corridor. 

[65 FR 17732, Apr. 4, 2000] 

§ 93.321

Transfer and termination of 

allocations. 

(a) Allocations are not a property in-

terest; they are an operating privilege 
subject to absolute FAA control. 

(b) Allocations are subject to the fol-

lowing conditions: 

(1) The Administrator will re-author-

ize and re-distribute allocations no ear-
lier than two years from the effective 
date of this rule. 

(2) Allocations that are held by the 

FAA at the time of reallocation may be 
distributed among remaining certifi-
cate holders, proportionate to the size 
of each certificate holder’s allocation. 

(3) The aggregate SFRA allocations 

will not exceed the number of oper-
ations reported to the FAA for the base 
year beginning on May 1, 1997 and end-
ing on April 30, 1998, except as adjusted 
to incorporate operations occurring for 
the base year of April 1, 2000 and end-
ing on March 31, 2001, that operate at 
or above 14,500 feet MSL and below 
18,000 feet MSL and operations in the 
area affected by the eastward shift of 
the SFRA bounded by longitude line 
111 degrees 42 minutes east to lon-
gitude 111 degrees 36 minutes east. 

(4) Allocations may be transferred 

among Part 135 or Part 121 certificate 
holders, subject to all of the following: 

(i) Such transactions are subject to 

all other applicable requirements of 
this chapter. 

(ii) Allocations authorizing commer-

cial air tours outside the Dragon and 
Zuni Point corridors may not be trans-
ferred into the Dragon and Zuni Point 
corridors. Allocations authorizing com-
mercial air tours within the Dragon 

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