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considered private. The Small Business 

Administration will only submit 

collections if they meet the following 

criteria. 

• The collections are voluntary. 

• The collections are low-burden for 

respondents (based on considerations of 

total burden hours or burden-hours per 

respondent) and are low-cost for both 

the respondents and the Federal 

Government. 

• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of 

concern to other Federal agencies. 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future. 

• Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary and is not retained. 

• Information gathered is intended to 

be used for general service improvement 

and program management purposes. 

Upon agreement between OMB and 

the agency all or a subset of information 

may be released as part of A–11, Section 

280 requirements only on 

performance.gov. Summaries of 

customer research and user testing 

activities may be included in publicfacing customer journey maps or 

summaries. Additional release of data 

must be coordinated with OMB. 

These collections will allow for 

ongoing, collaborative and actionable 

communications between the Agency, 

its customers, stakeholders, and OMB as 

it monitors agency compliance on 

Section 280. These responses will 

inform efforts to improve or maintain 

the quality of service offered to the 

public. If this information is not 

collected, vital feedback from customers 

and stakeholders on services will be 

unavailable. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households, Businesses and 

Organizations, State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

Below is a preliminary estimate of the 

aggregate burden hours for this 

information collection. 

Average Expected Annual Number of 

Activities: Approximately five types of 

customer experience activities such as 

feedback surveys, focus groups, user 

testing, and interviews. 

Average Number of Respondents per 

Activity: 1 response per respondent per 

activity. 

Annual Responses: 501,550. 

Average Minutes per Response: 5 

minutes–120 minutes, dependent upon 

activity. 

Burden Hours: Small Business 

Administration requests approximately 

251,125 burden hours. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; to develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purpose of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information, to search 

data sources, to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

Request for Comments: Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Curtis Rich, 

Management Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01595 Filed 1–25–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–03–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2020–1056] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of a New Approval of 

Information Collection: Unmanned 

Aircraft Systems (UAS) Market Survey 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a new information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on 

November 17, 2020. The collection 

involves an electronic distribution of a 

survey to gather information on current 

practices for pilots of unmanned aircraft 

systems (UAS). The target information 

to be gathered is the common fatiguerelated practices, and the minimum 

knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), 

testing, and staffing procedures required 

for operating UAS. The information to 

be collected will be used to inform 

future rulemaking and the development 

of supporting guidance. The information 

is necessary because the existing 

regulatory framework, to include the 

certification of airmen, was not 

designed with remote pilots in mind. To 

broadly integrate UAS and remote pilots 

into the National Airspace System, 

further rulemaking will be required to 

address remote pilot certification for air 

carrier operations and flight and duty 

time periods applicable to remote pilot 

air carrier operations. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by February 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please send written 

comments: 

By Electronic Docket: https://

www.regulations.gov (Enter docket 

number into search field). 

By mail: Kevin Williams, Ph.D., Bldg. 

13, Rm. 250D, 6500 S MacArthur Blvd., 

Oklahoma City, OK 73125. 

By fax: (405) 954–4852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Awwad by email at: 

ashley.awwad@faa.gov; phone: (816) 

786–5716. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. 

OMB Control Number: 2120–XXXX. 

Title: Unmanned Aircraft Systems 

(UAS) Market Survey. 

Form Numbers: There are no forms 

associated with this collection. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection. 

Background: The FAA published a 

Notice in the Federal Register on 

November 17, 2020, seeking comment 

for a period of 60-days on its intent to 

conduct a UAS market survey that 

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would collect information pertaining to 

UAS air carrier-like operations (85 FR 

73334). The FAA received supporting 

comments from four organizations: 

Airlines for America, Small UAV 

Coalition, Helicopter Association 

International (HAI), and the National 

Agricultural Aviation Association 

(NAAA). 

HAI believes this collection is a 

valuable opportunity and will be an 

effective source of information to inform 

FAA. NAAA commented that it is vital 

that a safe, low-altitude airspace exist 

for all users and advocates for pilots of 

UAS operations to hold a pilot 

certificate. NAAA added that the 

proposed collection would support 

establishing the minimum knowledge, 

skills, abilities, testing, and staffing 

procedures required for operating UAS. 

Similarly, the Small UAV Coalition 

supports the proposed collection 

recognizing the benefits of establishing 

minimum requirements in terms of 

aeronautical knowledge and in-flight 

practical training and testing for remote 

pilots conducting air carrier operations 

and suggests adjustments are necessary 

from existing remote pilot certificate 

requirements for operations conducted 

under 14 CFR part 107. 

Three of these commenters included 

recommendations for who should be 

eligible to respond to the survey. HAI 

suggested the FAA seek responses from 

the broadest possible cross-section of 

operations. HAI noted that many legacy 

rotorcraft organizations conducting a 

wide variety of operations have 

integrated UAS into their operations 

with more expected to follow. Data 

gathered from persons with experience 

in both manned and unmanned 

operations could be valuable. NAAA 

recommended that respondents include 

pilots with manned aircraft experience 

in operating around UAS, specifically 

those that normally conduct operations 

in low-altitude environments, though 

not necessarily experienced in flying 

unmanned aircraft. 

The FAA agrees that information from 

a broad cross-section of the aviation 

industry is important in gathering the 

data it seeks with this collection. The 

survey is designed such that 

respondents can indicate which area of 

the industry they represent. This will 

aid in understanding the more specific 

information gathered in the survey 

regarding knowledge, skill, training, 

testing, and fatigue-related policies and 

procedures. The FAA has specifically 

included some of the recommended 

industries of agriculture, infrastructure, 

and emergency response. If a 

respondent’s industry is not part of the 

generated listed, they will have the 

opportunity to write it in. Because of the 

UAS-specific information and 

experience we are seeking, we are 

requiring that the respondents have 

some kind of work-related experience 

with unmanned aircraft or that their 

organization currently operates or plans 

to operate unmanned aircraft 

commercially. 

The Small UAV Coalition noted in its 

comments that the FAA did not explain 

how it arrived at the estimate of 180 

respondents. The Small UAV Coalition 

believes the survey should include Part 

107 waiver holders because of the 

experience they have in complex UAS 

operations, particularly those beyond 

the line of sight of the remote pilot. 

The FAA arrived at the estimate of 

180 respondents due to both statistical 

reasons and prior experience with 

survey data collections. The 

requirement for 180 respondents 

represents a sufficient amount needed to 

draw reliable and valid conclusions 

from the data while reducing the 

American public’s paperwork burden as 

much as possible. Exceeding this 

number will not be problematic from a 

statistical viewpoint, and given that the 

survey is being distributed 

electronically, should not be a problem 

from a paperwork burden viewpoint as 

well. The FAA has generated a list of 

potential respondents to invite for 

participation, which helped to estimate 

the potential number. However, the 

number of respondents is not limited to 

only those on that list. The survey link 

can be forwarded or made available to 

others. Acknowledging the comments 

received regarding distribution and who 

it should include, the FAA will provide 

the survey link to NAAA, HAI, and the 

Small UAV Coalition by means of an 

invitational email. Enclosed in the 

invitational email is a survey link that 

states, ‘‘You may forward this survey to 

your colleagues and peers who meet this 

criteria, even if you do not.’’ Thus, these 

organizations can then email the survey 

invitation to their membership as they 

deem appropriate given the information 

the FAA has provided. Due to privacy 

concerns, the FAA will neither share 

nor accept participant contact lists but 

will encourage the organization to share 

the survey link with individuals who 

meet the survey criteria. 

The Small UAV Coalition also 

suggested that the academic experts 

should include those ‘‘who have 

examined how fatigue may occur while 

a human operates a machine with 

increasing levels of autonomy as well as 

complexity in tasks’’ noting that these 

experts may not have experience with 

UAS operations, but their information 

may be valuable. 

The FAA appreciates the suggestion 

and agrees that the fatigue information 

recommended would be valuable but 

such information exceeds the scope of 

the survey. The FAA has other research 

tasks that better capture this type of 

fatigue information. This particular 

survey is seeking operation-specific 

details and policies that organizations 

may have concerning time on duty in 

relationship to tasks, and other fatiguerelated policies. As noted previously, 

this survey would not prevent someone 

with that kind of expertise from 

responding, but the questions are not 

designed to capture other research that 

is available. 

Respondents: 180 respondents. 

Frequency: One-time collection. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 45-minute burden per 

response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 135 

hours, total burden. 

Issued in Oklahoma City, OK, on January 

21, 2021. 

Ashley Awwad, 

Management and Program Analyst, FAA 

Aviation Safety, Civil Aerospace Medical 

Institute, Flight Deck Human Factors 

Research Lab (AAM–510). 

[FR Doc. 2021–01686 Filed 1–25–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation: Notice of Availability 

for the Final Programmatic 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

the Shuttle Landing Facility Reentry 

Site Operator License 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), Council on 

Environmental Quality NEPA 

implementing regulations, and FAA 

Order 1050.1F, Environmental Impacts: 

Policies and Procedures, the FAA is 

announcing the availability of the Final 

Programmatic Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for the Shuttle 

Landing Facility (SLF) Reentry Site 

Operator License (Final PEA and 

FONSI). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stacey Zee, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Federal Aviation