---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 136.31"
title: "14"
number: "136.31"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/136.31"
---

# §136.31. Applicability.

- (a) This part restates and paraphrases several sections of the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, including [section 803](/cfr/14/803.md) (codified at [49 U.S.C. 40128](/usc/49/40128.md)) and sections [806](/cfr/14/806.md) and [809](/cfr/14/809.md). This subpart clarifies the requirements for the development of an air tour management plan for each park in the national park system where commercial air tour operations are flown.
- (b) Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, this subpart applies to each commercial air tour operator who conducts a commercial air tour operation over—
  - (1) A unit of the national park system;
  - (2) Tribal lands as defined in this subpart; or
  - (3) **Any area within one-half mile outside the boundary of any unit of the national park system.**
- (c) This subpart does not apply to a commercial air tour operator conducting a commercial air tour operation—
  - (1) Over the Grand Canyon National Park;
  - (2) Over that portion of tribal lands within or abutting the Grand Canyon National Park;
  - (3) Over any land or waters located in the State of Alaska; or
  - (4) While flying over or near the Lake Mead Recreation Area, solely as a transportation route, to conduct a commercial air tour over the Grand Canyon National Park.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2001-8690, 67 FR 65667, Oct. 25, 2002. Redesignated and amended by Amdt. 136-1, 72 FR 6912, Feb. 13, 2007]

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-1998-4521, 72 FR 6912, Feb. 13, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 40119, 44101, 44701-44702, 44705, 44709-44711, 44713, 44716-44717, 44722, 44901, 44903-44904, 44912, 46105.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2001-8690, 67 FR 65667, Oct. 25, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2001-8690, 67 FR 65667, Oct. 25, 2002. Redesignated and amended by Amdt. 136-1, 72 FR 6912, Feb. 13, 2007]