Under the Bryce Canyon plan, which takes effect in January, up to 515 air tours per year may be flown over the park on defined routes. At Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility, Jeff Ruch has said the two agencies were bypassing the NEPA requirements and simply grandfathering in existing numbers of allowed flights.
“… NPS and FAA took the [overflight] average for the past three years and adopted it as their plan. There were no noise surveys or studies, no NEPA compliance or serious consideration of alternatives,” Ruch told the Traveler earlier in November after Bryce Canyon released its plan.