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**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Federal Aviation Administration**

**[Docket No FAA–2013–0316]**

**Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee Airman Certification**  **System Working Group**

**AGENCY :**  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

**ACTION :**  Notice of Request for Comment.

**SUMMARY :**  This notice announces the availability of draft Airman Certification Standards documents developed by the Airman Certification Standards Working Group for the commercial pilot certificate and the authorized instructor certificate. The Airman Certification Standards documents are designed as the foundation for transitioning to a more integrated and systematic approach to airman certification testing and training. Given their importance in the ongoing evolution of the FAA’s airman certification testing and training system, the Airman Certification Standards Working Group wishes to make the draft Airman Certification Standards for the commercial pilot certificate and the revised Airman Certification Standards for the authorized instructor certificate available to the public for review and comment. The Airman Certification Standards Working Group will use the comments it receives to refine its work on this task. These documents are available for public review, download, and comment.

**DATES :**  Send comments on or before August 25, 2014.

**ADDRESSES :**  Send comments identified by docket number [FAA–2013–0316] using any of the following methods:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for sending your comments electronically.

• Mail: Send comments to Docket Operations, M–30, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC
20590–0001.

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take comments to Docket Operations in Room W12–140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket Operations at (202) 493–2251.

Privacy: The FAA will post all comments it receives, without change,
to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information the commenter provides. Using the search function of the docket Web site, anyone can find and read the electronic form of all comments received into any FAA dockets, including the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment for an association, business, labor union, etc.). DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement can be found in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477–19478), as well as at http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov.

Docket: Background documents or comments received may be read at http://www.regulations.gov at any time. Follow the online instructions for accessing the docket or Docket Operations in Room W12–140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Van L. Kerns, Manager, Regulatory Support Division, FAA Flight Standards Service, AFS 600, FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, P.O. Box 25082, Oklahoma City, OK 73125; telephone (405) 954–4431, email van.l.kerns@ faa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  Background

On December 19, 2013, the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) accepted the FAA’s assignment of a new task arising from recommendations of the ARAC Airman Testing Standards and Training Working Group (ATSTWG). The ATSTWG recommended specific steps the FAA should take to adopt, implement, and manage the integrated Airman Certification Standards (ACS) approach to airman certification testing and training. The new task instructed the ARAC to establish an Airman Certification System Working Group (ACS WG) to provide expert assistance and industry views to the FAA’s Flight Standards Service on the development, modification, and continued alignment of the major components of the airman certification system.

The FAA announced the ARAC’s acceptance of this task through a Federal Register Notice published on January 29, 2014 [79 FR 4800]. This Notice described the task elements and solicited participants for the ACS WG, which formed and began its work in March 2014.

The FAA has specifically tasked the ACS WG to support the FAA’s goal to enhance aviation safety and reduce the fatal general aviation accident rate by providing a means for the aviation industry to provide expert assistance and industry views to the FAA’s Flight Standards Service on the development, modification, and continued alignment of the major components of the airman certification system. These include:

1. The ACS for airman certificates and ratings (i.e. 8081-series documents);

2. Associated training guidance material (e.g., H-series handbooks);

3. Test management (e.g., test question development, test question boarding, test composition/test ‘‘mapping,’’ and CT–8080-series figures); and

4. Reference materials, to include AFS directives and Aviation Safety Inspector guidance; FAA Orders, Advisory Circulars (ACs), and other documents pertaining to the airman certification system.

In accordance with this tasking, the ACS WG has developed draft ACS documents that align the aeronautical knowledge testing standards with the flight proficiency standards set out in the existing Practical Test Standards. In addition to supporting the FAA’s effort to improve the relevance, reliability, validity, and effectiveness of aeronautical testing and training materials, the draft ACS documents support the FAA’s goal of reducing fatal general aviation accidents by incorporating task-specific risk management considerations into each Area of Operation.

Following the ACS model outlined by the ARAC ATSTWG, the ACS WG has completed its initial work on the ACS for the commercial pilot certificate. TheACS WG has also refined the ATSTWGdeveloped ACS for the authorized instructor certificate. At the request of the ACS WG, and in accordance with practices outlined by the ATSTWG for the private pilot certificate and instrument rating ACS documents, the ACS WG is making these documents available for public comment through docket number FAA–2013–0316. The ACS WG will use the comments it receives to refine its work toward completing FAA-assigned tasks.

The ACS WG notes that while the draft authorized instructor ACS follows the overall conceptual framework developed for the private pilot ACS, theinstrument rating ACS, and the newlydeveloped commercial pilot ACS, its construction reflects fundamental differences between the family of pilot certificates/ratings and the instructor certificate. The core of the authorized instructor ACS addresses practical application of the instructional concepts and techniques presented in the traditional Fundamentals of Instructing (FOI). The authorized instructor ACS


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uses appendices to define the acceptable standards for knowledge, skill, and risk management in the aeronautical proficiency tasks unique to a particular instructor certificate or rating.

The ACS WG also wishes to emphasize that the authorized instructor ACS is not intended to be a stand-alone document. Rather, it is intended to be used in conjunction with the pilot certificate level or rating ACS for which the instructor-applicant seeks authorization to provide instruction. Therefore, in addition to mastery of the knowledge and skills defined in the authorized instructor ACS, the instructor-applicant must demonstrate instructional competence for Tasks in the ACS for the appropriate certificate level or rating, to include analyzing and correcting common learner errors.

Issued in Washington, DC, under the authority set forth in 49 U.S.C. 106(f) on June 19, 2014. Brenda D. Courtney, Acting, Designated Federal Officer, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. 2014–14791 Filed 6–24–14; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–13–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Federal Aviation Administration**

**[Summary Notice No. PE–2014–36]**

**Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received** 

**AGENCY :**  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

**ACTION :**  Notice of petition for exemption received.

**SUMMARY :**  This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public’s awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA’s regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of the petition or its final disposition.

**DATES :**  Comments on this petition must identify the petition docket number and must be received on or before July 15,
2014.

**ADDRESSES :**  You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA– 2014–0361 using any of the following methods:

• Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for sending your comments electronically.

• Mail: Send comments to the Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590.

• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at 202–493–2251.

• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to the Docket Management Facility in Room W12–140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change, to http:// www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you provide. Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone can find and read the comments received into any of our dockets, including the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment for an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477–78).

Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to the Docket Management Facility in Room W12–140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Nia Daniels, (202) 267–9677, 800 Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20591.

This notice is published pursuant to 14 CFR 11.85.
Brenda D. Courtney, Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking. Petition for Exemption

Docket No.: FAA–2014–0361.

Petitioner: Gulf and Caribbean Cargo, Inc.

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 121.436. Description of Relief Sought: Gulf and Caribbean Cargo, Inc. seeks an exemption from 14 CFR 121.436 for its pilots in cargo operations to allow the pilot in command of the turbojet airplanes in Part 135 operations to count that pilot in command time toward the experience requirements of 14 CFR 121.436 regardless of whether the airplane was configured to carry
passengers or cargo.
[FR Doc. 2014–14797 Filed 6–24–14; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–13–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION** 

**Federal Railroad Administration**

**Notice of Application for Approval of Railroad Safety Program Plans and**  **Product Safety Plans**

In accordance with part 236 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations and 49 U.S.C. 20502(a), this document provides the public notice that by documents dated March 31, 2014, the railroads listed below have petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for approval of their Railroad Safety Program Plans (RSPP) and Product Safety Plans (PSP) for the Railsoft TrackAccess system. FRA assigned the petitions the following docket numbers:

• Kettle Falls International Railway: FRA–2014–0049.

• Georgia & Florida Railway: FRA–
2014–0050.

• Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railway: FRA–2014–0052.

• Panhandle Northern Railroad: FRA–2014–0053.

• Illinois Railway: FRA–2014–0051 TrackAccess is a processor-based dispatch system developed for operation in autonomous mode (without dispatcher intervention) for low-density rail lines. The system provides a processor-based methodology of requesting and issuing track authority to either qualified train crewmembers or roadway workers. It does so while increasing railroad productivity and significantly improving the safety of train operations, roadway workers, and other railway equipment.

FRA is providing public notice that the railroads’ RSPPs and related documents have been placed in the dockets listed above and are available for public inspection. FRA is not accepting public comment on the RSPP documents; notice regarding these documents is provided for information only.

FRA is accepting comments on the PSPs for each railroad, which are posted in the dockets listed above for public inspection. The railroads assert that their RSPPs and PSPs contain the same information and analysis as the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway’s (ATN) RSPP Revision 1, dated February 16, 2009, and the ATN PSP Revision 1, dated March 15, 2012. The ATN RSPP Revision 1 and the ATN PSP Revision 1 were previously approved by FRA on January 28, 2014 (Docket FRA–2013– 0088).

The PSPs provide descriptions of the TrackAccess system. The railroads state that in the case of ATN, FRA found that the PSP demonstrates that TrackAccess