78328 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 242 / Friday, December 16, 2011 / Notices 

Dated: December 12, 2011. 

Joseph Burton, 

ACICIP Executive Secretary, Department of 

State. 

[FR Doc. 2011–32318 Filed 12–15–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2011–0183] 

Access to Aircraft Situation Display to 

Industry (ASDI) and National Airspace 

System Status Information (NASSI) 

Data 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA). 

ACTION: Notice of Interim Policy on 

Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed Via 

ASDI. 

SUMMARY: As a result of recent 

legislation, the FAA has begun the 

process of amending the circumstances 

in which aircraft owners or operators 

can limit the dissemination of their 

aircraft data via the FAA’s ASDI 

program. This Notice describes the 

immediate changes that the FAA has 

implemented. In a future Notice, the 

FAA will propose specific procedures 

by which owners or operators who want 

the FAA to block their aircraft data can 

express their preference regarding the 

FAA’s release of that information via 

ASDI. At that time, the FAA will invite 

comments on the FAA’s proposed 

procedures. In the interim, any aircraft 

that the FAA previously blocked under 

the Certified Security Concerns program 

published on June 3, 2011, will remain 

blocked. The FAA will address the 

future procedures concerning the 

blocking of those aircraft in its 

upcoming proposed and final 

procedures. In addition, the FAA is now 

accepting and implementing all direct 

requests of aircraft owners or operators 

to block their aircraft data from public 

display of ASDI and NASSI information. 

DATES: This interim policy is already in 

effect and will remain in effect until the 

FAA adopts final procedures. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may direct any questions on adding 

aircraft to and removing aircraft from 

the ASDI block list to Mr. John McClure 

by telephone at (540) 422–4648 or by 

electronic mail at john.mcclure@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 18, 2011, the President 

signed into law H.R. 2112, the 

‘‘Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2012,’’ which 

provides the U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s appropriation for the 

balance of fiscal year 2012. Section 

119A of that statute provides that: 

[n]otwithstanding any other provision of 

law, none of the funds made available under 

this Act or any prior Act may be used to 

implement or to continue to implement any 

limitation on the ability of any owner or 

operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon 

a request to the Administrator of the [FAA], 

a blocking of that owner’s or operator’s 

aircraft registration number from any display 

of the [FAA’s ASDI] data that is made 

available to the public, except data made 

available to a Government agency, for the 

noncommercial flights of that owner or 

operator. 

Pub. L. 112–55, § 119A, 125 Stat. 552, 

649. 

In light of this appropriation 

language, the FAA is withdrawing the 

policy that it published on June 3, 2011, 

which required owners or operators to 

submit a Certified Security Concern in 

order to have their aircraft blocked from 

the public’s view on public ASDI 

displays. The FAA will not reinstate 

those limitations on aircraft owners or 

operators at the conclusion of the 

current fiscal year. Instead, in early 

2012, the FAA will propose and solicit 

comments on procedures for all aircraft 

owners and operators to request that the 

FAA block their aircraft data from the 

FAA’s public ASDI data feed. 

In the interim until the FAA finalizes 

the blocking procedures, the FAA is 

currently accepting and implementing 

requests that aircraft owners or 

operators make directly to the FAA to 

have their aircraft blocked from public 

display of ASDI and NASSI information, 

including those not accompanied by a 

Certified Security Concern. Moreover, 

during this period, any aircraft that the 

FAA previously blocked under the 

Certified Security Concerns program 

that took effect in August 2011 will 

remain blocked, and the FAA will 

specifically address the future treatment 

of those aircraft in its upcoming 

proposed and final procedures. 

In order to ensure that the FAA has 

sufficient information to act on a 

blocking request, an aircraft owner or 

operator should specify the registration 

number of the aircraft, whether the 

requestor is an owner or operator of the 

aircraft, and whether the requestor 

desires ASDI blocking at the FAA data 

source or at the ASDI Subscriber level. 

The FAA will construe any request that 

does not specify whether the request is 

for blocking at the FAA data source or 

at the ASDI Subscriber level as a request 

to block the information at the FAA data 

source. 

Aircraft owners and operators are 

advised that they may need to re-submit 

their blocking request at a later date, 

depending on the specific procedures 

arrived at after the FAA considers the 

public views expressed on the 

upcoming FAA proposal. Aircraft 

owners and operators are further 

advised that all ASDI information will 

remain available without blocking to 

government users of ASDI and NASSI 

data. 

The FAA’s updates to the ASDI 

aircraft block lists currently take effect 

on the first Thursday of each month. It 

is possible that the volume of requests 

and their timeliness will preclude the 

FAA from processing some requests in 

time for them to take effect during the 

month following their submission. 

Nevertheless, the FAA will process 

requests in the order in which the FAA 

receives them. 

Until the FAA adopts final procedures 

for submitting ASDI block requests, 

aircraft owners or operators can submit 

their ASDI block requests via the 

electronic mail address for the prior 

program: 

CertifiedSecurityConcern@faa.gov. 

Alternatively, aircraft owners or 

operators can submit their request via 

regular mail at the mailing address 

specified in the June 3, 2011, final 

notice for the Certified Security 

Concerns program. For requests 

submitted by regular mail, the FAA 

prefers to receive those mail requests at: 

FAA ASDI Blocking Request; ATO 

System Operations Services, AJR–0; 

Wilbur Wright Building, Room 3E1500; 

600 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20597. 

Given the possibility that additional 

aircraft owners or operators will elect to 

have their aircraft data blocked at the 

ASDI Subscriber level, the FAA expects 

to amend its current Memorandum of 

Agreement with the ASDI Subscribers to 

reflect more specifically the new 

procedures. Such an amendment will 

not take place until after the FAA 

finalizes the procedural changes, 

however. In the meantime, ASDI 

Subscribers are advised that the existing 

Memorandum of Agreement will remain 

in effect insofar as it requires ASDI 

Subscribers to block requests based 

upon Certified Security Concerns, and 

further, that the FAA construes the 

Memorandum of Agreement to obligate 

ASDI Subscribers to filter any other 

aircraft data at the direction of the FAA. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 

12, 2011. 

Michael P. Huerta, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2011–32237 Filed 12–15–11; 8:45 am] 

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