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>> After last week’s incident at Reagan Washington National Airport in which two departing commuter jets flew into the landing path of a third plane, the Federal Aviation Administration is banning the air traffic control procedure that led to the near-calamity, the Post reports. For the immediate future, airports will not be permitted to order arriving planes to approach in the opposite direction from which departing planes leave.

>> Pepco did such a bang-up job dealing with the effects of the June 29 derecho that… Wait a second. No it didn’t! But the utility is still asking its Maryland customers to pay a bit more on their monthly electric bills. At a meeting of the Maryland Public Service Commission in Rockville last night, Montgomery County residents railed into Pepco’s shoddy performance in getting its hundreds of thousands of customers back online after the storm, WAMU reports.

>> Jason Noble, the Louisville, Ky. musician who died last weekend in Bethesda after a long battle with cancer, understandably had some big medical bills. The D.C. musician Gordon Withers put together a benefit mixtape, which is available as a $10 download. Arts Desk has the details.

Briefly Noted: Top U.Va. official quits after Teresa Sullivan fiasco … Virginia breaks ground on I-95 express lane expansion … Sulaimon Brown pops his head up to compare Vince Gray to Colorado movie theater shooter … Maryland man arrested after looking for hitman.

This Day in DCist: Last year, the chairman of D.C.’s Board of Elections and Ethics quit. In 2010, we parsed Cathy Lanier’s non-comment quotes.