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Annual Report on Restricted Area R-4808N
From: "Michael J. Poirier" <mpoirier@cruzio.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:51:05 -0800
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> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:34:30 +0200
> To: campbell@ufomind.com
> From: [withheld]
> Subject: A little suggestion
>
> So my question is: has
> anybody ever tried to get from the FAA (directly or via a FOIA
> request) this annual report about the Restricted Area R-4808 N
> activities and the mandatory sketches Far's part 73, section 73.19
> refers to? I have quite clear that any governement in the world can
> lie about the activities of a certain facility or group, but I think
> it could be quite interesting to know what the AEC (is it today
> enclosed within the DOE, perhaps?), or whatever R-4808 using agency
> is, has to officially say about it's activities in the Restricted Area
> R-4808 N.
I did submit an FOIA request to the FAA in the summer of '94 and here is
the transcribed reply: (it took them 30 days to answer my request)
=====================================================================================
U. S. Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20591
AUG xx 1994
Mr. Michael J. Poirier
P. O. Box xxx
xxxxxxxx, xx xxxxx-xxxx
Dear Mr. Poirier:
The enclosed copy of the Department of Energy annual utilization report
and chart for Restricted Area R-4808N is provided in response to your
Freedom of Information Act request, dated July xx, 1994. No
supplementary reports have been submitted to the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Classified activities are also conducted in addition to those activities
reflected in the utilization report. These activities require the
Restricted Area to be designated for continous use.
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Frank Hatfield, Military
Operations Program Manager, ATM-400, at 202-267-9362.
Sincerely,
<signed> David J. Hurley
Director, Air Traffic System Management
Enclosure
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ANNUAL UTILIZATION REPORT FOR SPECIAL USE AIRSPACE - R4808N
The following report is provided per FAR 73.19 (b):
1. Restricted Area R4808N
Period of Report Jan 1 - Dec 31, 1993
2. Activities (1993)
Flying 50,392
Average Operations 162
3. Hours of Operation
a. Daily Hours 24
b. Days of Week Mondays - Friday
(Weekends if needed)
c. Number of Weeks 52
d. Total hours Actual Use 4241.25
4. N/A
5. Altitude (Mean Sea Level) Surface to Infinity
6. No change
7. N/A
[Report item number 4 was to indicate the number of hours daily, the
days of the week, and the number of weeks during the year that the
joint-use restricted airspace was released to the controlling agency for
public use. R-4808N is NOT joint-use space. Item number 6 is to indicate
if there has been a change in the depiction of the airspace since the
original chart submission. Item number 7, FAR part 73.19(b) states
"Include any other information not otherwise required under this part
which is considered pertinent to activities carried on in the restricted
area." - mjp]
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[attached map was a very poor photocopy of a sectional chart showing
R-4808N; nothing special. - mjp]
Index: Dreamland Airspace
