Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 109 / Wednesday, June 6, 2018 / Notices 26341 

Number of Respondents: 90 

certificated air carriers and 300 charter 

operators. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3 hours 

per certificated air carrier 1 hour per 

charter operator. 

Total Annual Burden: 570 hours. 

Needs and Uses: Part 249 requires the 

retention of records such as: General 

and subsidiary ledgers, journals and 

journal vouchers, voucher distribution 

registers, accounts receivable and 

payable journals and legers, subsidy 

records documenting underlying 

financial and statistical reports to DOT, 

funds reports, consumer records, sales 

reports, auditors’ and flight coupons, air 

waybills, etc. Depending on the nature 

of the document, the carrier may be 

required to retain the document for a 

period of 30 days to 3 years. Public 

charter operators and overseas military 

personnel charter operators must retain 

documents which evidence or reflect 

deposits made by each charter 

participant and commissions received 

by, paid to, or deducted by travel agents, 

and all statements, invoices, bills and 

receipts from suppliers or furnishers of 

goods and services in connection with 

the tour or charter. These records are 

retained for 6 months after completion 

of the charter program. 

Not only is it imperative that carriers 

and charter operators retain source 

documentation, but it is critical that we 

ensure that DOT has access to these 

records. Given DOT’s established 

information needs for such reports, the 

underlying support documentation must 

be retained for a reasonable period of 

time. Absent the retention requirements, 

the support for such reports may or may 

not exist for audit/validation purposes 

and the relevance and usefulness of the 

carrier submissions would be impaired, 

since the data could not be verified to 

the source on a test basis. 

The Confidential Information 

Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act 

of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires 

a statistical agency to clearly identify 

information it collects for non-statistical 

purposes. BTS hereby notifies the 

respondents and the public that BTS 

uses the information it collects under 

this OMB approval for non-statistical 

purposes including, but not limited to, 

publication of both Respondent’s 

identity and its data, submission of the 

information to agencies outside BTS for 

review, analysis and possible use in 

regulatory and other administrative 

matters. 

Comments are invited on: Whether 

the proposed record retention 

requirements are necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the Department. Comments should 

address whether the information will 

have practical utility; the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31, 

2018. 

William Chadwick Jr., 

Director, Office of Airline Information, 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12154 Filed 6–5–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Transportation Statistics Bureau 

[Docket: DOT–OST–2014–0031 BTS 

Paperwork Reduction Notice] 

Agency Information Collection; 

Activity Under OMB Review; Report of 

Extension of Credit to Political 

Candidates 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Research and Technology 

(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS), Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces that the Information 

Collection Request, abstracted below, is 

being forwarded to the Office of 

Management and Budget for extension 

of currently approved reporting 

requirement. A Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period was 

published on March 28, 2018. No 

comments were received. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by July 6, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Gorham, Office of Airline Information, 

RTS–42, Room E34, OST–R, BTS, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590–0001, Telephone Number (202) 

366–4406, Fax Number (202) 366–3383 

or email jeff.gorham@dot.gov. 

Comments: Send comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 715 17th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: OST 

Desk Officer. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Approval No.: 2138–0016. 

Title: Report of Extension of Credit to 

Political Candidates. 

Form No.: 183. 

Type Of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved reporting 

requirement. 

Respondents: Certificated air carriers. 

Number of Respondents: 2 (Monthly 

Average). 

Number of Responses: 24. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. 

Total Annual Burden: 24 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The Department uses 

this form as the means to fulfill its 

obligation under the Federal Election 

Campaign Act of 1971 (the Act). The 

Act’s legislative history indicates that 

one of its statutory goals is to prevent 

candidates for Federal political office 

from incurring large amounts of 

unsecured debt with regulated 

transportation companies (e.g., airlines). 

This information collection allows the 

Department to monitor and disclose the 

amount of unsecured credit extended by 

airlines to candidates for Federal office. 

All certificated air carriers are required 

to submit this information. 

The Confidential Information 

Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act 

of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires 

a statistical agency to clearly identify 

information it collects for non-statistical 

purposes. BTS hereby notifies the 

respondents and the public that BTS 

uses the information it collects under 

this OMB approval for non-statistical 

purposes including, but not limited to, 

publication of both Respondent’s 

identity and its data, and submission of 

the information to agencies outside BTS 

for review, analysis and possible use in 

regulatory and other administrative 

matters. 

Comments are invited on whether the 

proposed retention of records is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Department of 

Transportation. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31, 

2018. 

William Chadwick, Jr., 

Director, Office of Airline Information, 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12153 Filed 6–5–18; 8:45 am] 

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