This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 88, No. 210 

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Parts 61, 63, 65 and 141 

[Docket No.: FAA–2023–0825; Notice No. 

23–06A] 

RIN 2120–AL25 

Removal of Expiration Date on a Flight 

Instructor Certificate; Additional 

Qualification Requirements To Train 

Initial Flight Instructor Applicants; and 

Other Provisions; Reopening of 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM); reopening of comment period. 

SUMMARY: This action reopens the 

comment period for the notice of 

proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published 

on May 23, 2023, titled ‘‘Removal of 

Expiration Date on a Flight Instructor 

Certificate; Additional Qualification 

Requirements To Train Initial Flight 

Instructor Applicants; and Other 

Provisions.’’ The proposed amendments 

would function to remove the expiration 

date from a flight instructor certificate, 

establish recent experience 

requirements, expand certain certificate 

reinstatement options for flight 

instructors, amend qualification 

requirements for flight instructors 

seeking to provide training to initial 

flight instructor applicants, and codify 

the requirements of a Special Federal 

Aviation Regulation. The FAA is 

reopening the comment period to allow 

commenters an additional opportunity 

to provide feedback on this proposed 

rule. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

NPRM published on May 23, 2023, at 88 

FR 32983, and closed on June 22, 2023, 

is reopened until December 1, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2023–0825 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to

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: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the 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: 

Allan G. Kash, Training and 

Certification Group, Flight Standards 

Service, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone (202) 267–1100; email 

allan.g.kash@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Comments Invited

The FAA invites interested persons to

participate in this rulemaking by 

submitting written comments, data, or 

views relating to the rulemaking. The 

most helpful comments reference a 

specific portion of the proposal, explain 

the reason for any recommended 

change, and include supporting data. To 

ensure the docket does not contain 

duplicate comments, commenters 

should submit only one time if 

comments are filed electronically, or 

commenters should send only one copy 

of written comments if comments are 

filed in writing. 

The FAA will file in the docket all 

comments it receives, as well as a report 

summarizing each substantive public 

contact with FAA personnel concerning 

this proposed rulemaking. Before acting 

on this proposal, the FAA will consider 

all comments it receives on or before the 

closing date for comments. The FAA 

will consider comments filed after the 

comment period has closed if it is 

possible to do so without incurring 

expense or delay. The FAA may change 

this proposal in light of the comments 

it receives. 

B. Confidential Business Information

Confidential Business Information

(CBI) is commercial or financial 

information that is both customarily and 

actually treated as private by its owner. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt 

from public disclosure. If your 

comments responsive to this NPRM 

contain commercial or financial 

information that is customarily treated 

as private, that you actually treat as 

private, and that is relevant or 

responsive to this NPRM, it is important 

that you clearly designate the submitted 

comments as CBI. Please mark each 

page of your submission containing CBI 

as ‘‘PROPIN.’’ The FAA will treat such 

marked submissions as confidential 

under the FOIA, and they will not be 

placed in the public docket of this 

NPRM. Submissions containing CBI 

should be sent to the person listed 

under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT heading at the beginning of the 

preamble. Any commentary that the 

FAA receives which is not specifically 

designated as CBI will be placed in the 

public docket for this rulemaking. 

C. Availability of Rulemaking

Documents

An electronic copy of rulemaking 

documents may be obtained from the 

internet by— 

1. Searching the Federal eRulemaking

Portal at www.regulations.gov; 

2. Visiting the FAA’s Regulations and

Policies web page at www.faa.gov/ 

regulations_policies/; or 

3. Accessing the Government Printing

Office’s web page at www.GovInfo.com. 

Copies may also be obtained by 

sending a request to the Federal 

Aviation Administration, Office of 


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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 210 / Wednesday, November 1, 2023 / Proposed Rules 74909 

1See comment from William Edwards, Docket 

No. FAA–2023–0825–0132. 

2The Experimental Aircraft Association’s 

AirVenture Oshkosh Air Show was held from July 

24 through July 30, 2023. 

Rulemaking, ARM–1, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591, or 

by calling (202) 267–9680. Commenters 

must identify the docket or notice 

number of this rulemaking. 

All documents the FAA considered in 

developing this proposed rule, 

including economic analyses and 

technical reports, may be accessed from 

the internet through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal referenced in item 

(1) above. 

I. Background 

On May 23, 2023, the FAA published 

an NPRM titled ‘‘Removal of Expiration 

Date on a Flight Instructor Certificate; 

Additional Qualification Requirements 

To Train Initial Flight Instructor 

Applicants; and Other Provisions,’’ in 

the Federal Register (88 FR 32983; 

Notice No. 23–06). The NPRM primarily 

proposed amendments to flight 

instructor certificate requirements in 

part 61. First, the FAA proposed to 

amend flight instructor certificate 

renewal requirements by changing the 

existing renewal requirements to recent 

experience requirements and adding a 

new method for persons to establish 

recent flight instructor experience. 

Additionally, the FAA proposed to 

allow a flight instructor whose recent 

experience lapsed by no more than three 

calendar months to reinstate flight 

instructor privileges by taking an 

approved flight instructor refresher 

course rather than completing a flight 

instructor certification practical test. 

Further, the FAA proposed to amend 

the qualification requirements for flight 

instructors seeking to provide training 

to initial flight instructor applicants by 

adding two new methods under which 

a flight instructor may become qualified 

to provide this training. Finally, the 

FAA proposed to relocate and codify 

Special Federal Aviation Regulation 

(SFAR) 100–2, Relief for U.S. Military 

and Civilian Personnel who are 

Assigned Outside the United States in 

Support of U.S. Armed Forces 

Operations into parts 61, 63, and 65. 

Commenters were instructed to 

provide comments on or before June 22, 

2023 (i.e., 30 days from the date of 

publication of the NPRM). However, 

during the original comment period, the 

FAA received a request to extend the 

comment period to provide additional 

time to the public to comment on the 

proposed rule.1 Specifically, the 

comment proposed several 

recommendations in lieu of the 

proposed rulemaking. One such 

comment urged the FAA to convene a 

working group and consult with the 

flight training industry and, at a 

minimum, an extension of the comment 

period until after AirVenture 2023.2

II. Reopening of Comment Period 

The FAA grants the commenter’s 

request for an extension of the comment 

period to comment on the proposed 

rule. Under the guidance of Executive 

Order 13563, which provides that the 

public must be afforded a meaningful 

opportunity to comment with a 

comment period that should generally 

be at least 60 days, the FAA finds that 

an additional thirty (30) days will 

provide sufficient opportunity for the 

public to comment (i.e., a total period of 

60 days). Therefore, the comment period 

for Notice No. 23–06 is reopened until 

December 1, 2023. 

The FAA will not grant any additional 

requests to further extend the comment 

period for this rulemaking. Issued under 

authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 

44701(a)(5), and 44703(a) in 

Washington, DC, on or about October 

26, 2023. 

Brandon Roberts, 

Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24082 Filed 10–31–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

16 CFR Part 1264 

[CPSC Docket No. 2011–0074] 

Safety Standard Addressing BladeContact Injuries on Table Saws 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Supplemental notice of 

proposed rulemaking; notice of 

opportunity for oral presentation of 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission (Commission or 

CPSC) has determined preliminarily 

that there may be an unreasonable risk 

of blade-contact injuries associated with 

table saws. To address this hazard, the 

Commission proposes a rule under the 

Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) 

that would establish a performance 

standard that requires table saws to 

limit the depth of cut to no more than 

3.5 millimeters when a test probe, acting 

as surrogate for a human finger or other 

body part, approaches the spinning 

blade at a rate of 1 meter per second 

(m/s). The Commission is providing an 

opportunity for interested parties to 

present comments on this supplemental 

notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPR). 

DATES: 

Deadline for Written Comments: 

Written comments must be received by 

January 2, 2024. 

Deadline for Request to Present Oral 

Comments: Any person interested in 

making an oral presentation must send 

an email indicating this intent to the 

Office of the Secretary at cpsc-os@

cpsc.gov by December 1, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: 

Written Comments: You may submit 

written comments in response to the 

proposed rule, identified by Docket No. 

CPSC–2011–0074, by any of the 

following methods: 

Electronic Submissions: Submit 

electronic comments to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit through this website: 

confidential business information, trade 

secret information, or other sensitive or 

protected information that you do not 

want to be available to the public. The 

Commission typically does not accept 

comments submitted by email, except as 

described below. 

Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier/Written 

Submissions: CPSC encourages you to 

submit electronic comments by using 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. You 

may, however, submit comments by 

mail/hand delivery/courier to: Office of 

the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 

504–7923. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this document. CPSC 

may post all comments without change, 

including any personal identifiers, 

contact information, or other personal 

information provided, to: http://

www.regulations.gov. If you wish to 

submit confidential business 

information, trade secret information, or 

other sensitive or protected information 

that you do not want to be available to 

the public, you may submit such 

comments by mail, hand delivery, or 

courier, or you may email them to cpscos@cpsc.gov. 

Docket SNPR: For access to the docket 

to read background documents or 

comments received, go to: http://

www.regulations.gov, insert docket 

number CPSC–2011–0074 into the 

‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the prompts. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Caroleene Paul, Directorate for 

Engineering Sciences, U.S. Consumer 


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