Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 122 / Wednesday, June 25, 2014 / Notices 36121 

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. The 

ACS 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, the 

instrument 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 

mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

36122 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 122 / Wednesday, June 25, 2014 / Notices 

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 

mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES