Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 248 / Tuesday, December 27, 2011 / Notices 81009 

Issued in Washington, DC on December 19, 

2011. 

Albert R. Spence, 

FAA Assistant Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, IT Enterprises Business 

Services Division, AES–200. 

[FR Doc. 2011–33054 Filed 12–23–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: General 

Aviation and Air Taxi Activity and 

Avionics 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 to renew an information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on October 

26, 2011, vol. 76, no. 207, page 66346– 

66347. Respondents to this survey are 

owners of general aviation aircraft. This 

information is used by FAA, NTSB, and 

other government agencies, the aviation 

industry, and others for safety 

assessment, planning, forecasting, cost/ 

benefit analysis, and to target areas for 

research. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by January 26, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy DePaepe at (405) 954–9362, or by 

email at: Kathy A. DePaepe@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

Control Number: 2120–0060. 

Title: General Aviation and Air Taxi 

Activity and Avionics Survey. 

Form Numbers: There are no FAA 

forms associated with this collection. 

Type of Review: Renewal of an 

information collection. 

Background: Title 49, United States 

Code, empowers the Secretary of 

Transportation to collect and 

disseminate information relative to civil 

aeronautics, to study the possibilities for 

development of air commerce and the 

aeronautical industries, and to make 

long-range plans for, and formulate 

policy with respect to, the orderly 

development and use of the navigable 

airspace, radar installations and all 

other aids for air navigation. 

Respondents to this survey are owners 

of general aviation aircraft. This 

information is used by FAA, NTSB, and 

other government agencies, the aviation 

industry, and others for safety 

assessment, planning, forecasting, cost/ 

benefit analysis, and to target areas for 

research. 

Respondents: Approximately 83,500 

owners of general aviation aircraft. 

Frequency: Information is collected 

annually. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 20 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

13,000 hours. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget. Comments should be addressed 

to the attention of the Desk Officer, 

Department of Transportation/FAA, and 

sent via electronic mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed 

to (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

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. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued in Washington, DC on December 19, 

2011. 

Albert R. Spence, 

FAA Assistant Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, IT Enterprises Business 

Services Division, AES–200. 

[FR Doc. 2011–33043 Filed 12–23–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee—New Task 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of new task assignment 

for the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC). 

SUMMARY: The FAA assigned the 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) a new task to 

develop a comprehensive program of 

voluntary accreditation for commercial 

air tour operators that are not required 

under parts 91 and 135 of Title 14 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) to 

maintain their aircraft under a 

continuous airworthiness maintenance 

program (CAMP). This task addresses, 

in part, the ARAC recommendation 

developed by the Commercial Air Tours 

Maintenance (CATM) Working Group, 

which the FAA accepted on February 1, 

2011. This notice informs the public of 

a new ARAC activity and solicits 

membership for the new Commercial 

Air Tour Voluntary Accreditation 

Program Working Group. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Haley, Office of Rulemaking, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20591; telephone: (202) 

493–5708, facsimile: (202) 267–5075; 

email: Katherine.L.Haley@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The FAA established ARAC to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the FAA Administrator on the FAA’s 

rulemaking activities. ARAC’s objectives 

are to improve the development of the 

FAA’s regulations by providing 

information, advice, and 

recommendations related to aviation 

issues. 

On July 15, 2009, the FAA tasked 

ARAC (74 FR 34390) to provide advice 

and recommendations on a maintenance 

quality assurance system, a maintenance 

training program and a required 

inspection program for operators and air 

carriers that conduct air tours and who 

operate under parts 91 and 135 (aircraft 

type certificated for a passenger seating 

configuration, excluding any pilot seat, 

of 9 or fewer seats). That tasking was in 

response to two recommendations from 

the National Transportation Safety 

Board (NTSB) (A–08–32 and A–08–33) 

and an FAA recommendation on air 

tour accidents. The CATM Working 

Group formed and met between 

November 2009 and December 2010 to 

address the ARAC tasking. On 

December 16, 2010, the CATM working 

group presented the findings and 

recommendations to the ARAC 

Executive Committee. One of the 

recommendations was to develop an 

Advisory Circular (AC) to create a 

voluntary accreditation program 


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