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final rule, § 61.159(c) allows pilots to 

log SIC time in part 135 operations in 

a single engine turbine-powered 

airplane or a multi-engine airplane that 

otherwise does not require an SIC. This 

will require the pilot to obtain a logbook 

endorsement from the pilot in command 

for each individual flight to log this time 

as SIC. The FAA estimates that of the 

76,957 Commercial Pilots with airplane 

and instrument privileges that 

approximately 10% (7,696) may actively 

pursue a SIC position with a Part 135 

operator that is approved for logging SIC 

time as described for this provision. But, 

because of the limited number of 

operators (approximately 457 operators 

as of September 28, 2017) that would 

qualify or actually pursue this 

authorization, the FAA estimates that 

only 15% (1,154 pilots) might actually 

become qualified annually to log SIC 

time under this provision. This 

additional record keeping requirement 

will be reflected in Section 61.159, 

Aeronautical experience. The FAA 

estimates this SIC training program 

burden increase is 1,154 hours annually. 

Respondents: The total number of 

respondents in the airman certification 

program is estimated to be 

approximately 25 percent of the 

population of active certificated pilots 

and instructors. Given a population of 

825,000, the result is approximately 

206,250 respondents providing data on 

an annual basis. The total number of 

applicants for a remote pilot certificate 

with a small UAS rating is estimated to 

be 39,229 annually. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: For the hour burdens 

resulting from the application 

requirements of the collection of 

information other than remote pilots 

with small UAS ratings, the FAA 

estimates that forms are submitted for 

these certificates and ratings at an 

average preparation time of 15 minutes 

(0.25 hrs) each. The average time 

estimate of 0.25 hours assumes that 

many individual applicants will submit 

an 8710–1 form more than once for 

various reasons, and that most of the 

information provided on the form likely 

will not have changed. For Part 107 we 

estimate that an average of 39,229 forms 

are submitted annually that require an 

average preparation time of 0.25 hours 

to complete. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

total number of annual responses for the 

airman certification program is 

estimated to be 1,196,653. The FAA 

estimates the total reporting burden 

hours to be 43,157 hours. The FAA 

estimates the total recordkeeping 

burden hours to be 282,329 hours. The 

FAA estimates the burden for the 

collection of information to be 325,486 

hours annually. This is a burden 

reduction of 5,015 annual burden hours 

from the currently approved 

information collection. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 

2018. 

Barbara L. Hall, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Performance, Policy, and Records 

Management Branch, ASP–110. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12796 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of a Revision to an Approval 

of an Existing Information Collection: 

Operating Requirements: Commuter 

and On-Demand Operation 

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 revision of this 

collection involves the amendment of 

current regulations, which allows a 

certificate holder’s pilots to log secondin-command (SIC) time in operations 

conducted under part 135 in an airplane 

or operation that does not otherwise 

require a SIC. This revision also 

removes the burden for initial 

certification under current regulations, 

as that is already counted under ICR 

2120–0593 (Part 119). 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by August 13, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the FAA 

at the following address: Barbara Hall, 

Federal Aviation Administration, ASP– 

110, 10101 Hillwood Parkway, Fort 

Worth, TX 76177. 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Hall by email at: 

Barbara.L.Hall@faa.gov; phone: 940– 

594–5913. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0039. 

Title: Operating Requirements: 

Commuter and On-Demand Operation. 

Form Numbers: N/A. 

Type of Review: This is a revision of 

an existing information collection. 

Background: The FAA is publishing 

the final rule Regulatory Relief, Aviation 

Training devices; Pilot Certification, 

Training, and Pilot Schools; and Other 

Provisions (RIN 2120–AK28; Docket No. 

FAA–2016–6142). In that rule, the FAA 

is amending § 135.99 by adding 

paragraph (c) to allow a certificate 

holder to receive approval of a secondin-command (SIC) professional 

development program (SIC PDP) via 

operations specifications (Ops Specs) to 

allow the certificate holder’s pilots to 

log SIC time in operations conducted 

under part 135 in an airplane or 

operation that does not otherwise 

require a SIC. As explained in the rule, 

the FAA believes that a comprehensive 

SIC PDP will provide opportunities for 

beneficial flight experience that may not 

otherwise exist and also provide 

increased safety in operations for those 

flights conducted in a multicrew 

environment. The FAA is establishing 

requirements in § 135.99(c) for 

certificate holders, airplanes, and 

flightcrew members during operations 

conducted under an approved SIC PDP. 

Those changes are reflected in this 

information collection. 

The FAA is also changing certain 

logging requirements to enable the 

logging of SIC time obtained under a SIC 

PDP. Those changes are reflected in a 

revision to information collection 2120– 

0021. 

Respondents: Operators who 

currently possess an FAA approved PIC 

or SIC training program could revise 

and utilize those existing programs to 

qualify their pilots seeking approval to 

log SIC time. Those operators that do 

not already possess an approved PIC/ 

SIC training program (that must include 

crew resource management training) 

would be required to submit a proposed 

new SIC training program for FAA 

approval. This would be amending an 

existing part 119 certificate. As of 

September 28, 2017 the FAA estimates 

that there were approximately 457 part 

135 operators with single engine 

turbine-powered airplanes or 

multiengine airplanes that would 


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qualify or actually pursue the 

authorization to conduct a SIC 

professional development program. 

The FAA estimates that 

approximately 20 operators would be 

required to submit a newly developed 

SIC Professional Development Training 

Program for approval in the first year 

that the program is available. The FAA 

estimates that 50 operators will request 

an amendment to their existing PIC/SIC 

training program. This time burden is 

reflected in § 135.325, Training program 

and revision. 

Frequency: As needed. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Section 135.99(c) permits a 

certificate holder to seek approval of an 

SIC professional development program 

via issuance of operations specifications 

(Ops Specs) to allow the certificate 

holder’s pilots to log SIC time. Under an 

approved SIC professional development 

program, pilots may log SIC time in part 

135 operations conducted in 

multiengine airplanes and single engine 

turbine-powered airplanes that do not 

otherwise require an SIC, if those pilots: 

(1) Meet certification, training, and 

qualification requirements for pilots in 

part 135 operations, and (2) serve under 

the supervision of a part 135 PIC who 

meets certain experience requirements. 

The FAA estimates that 20 operators 

will take approximately 40 hours each 

to develop and submit an acceptable 

new SIC training program. This program 

change will result in a burden increase 

of 800 hours in the first year of 

information collection only. 

The FAA estimates that 50 operators 

will take approximately 20 hours each 

to revise and submit an acceptable SIC 

training program. This program change 

will result in a burden increase of 1000 

hours. 

The new or revised SIC training 

program will result in a burden of 1800 

total hours in the first year of 

information collection. 

In addition, the FAA has revised the 

burden in section 135.325 to remove the 

calculation of the burden for new 

applicants (for initial approval of 

training programs); this burden should 

not be reflected in this collection as it 

is already addressed in a previously 

approved collection (2120–0593 

Certification: Air Carriers and 

Commercial Operators—FAR Part 119). 

This change is necessary to avoid 

double-counting the burden. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

overall burden for part 135 was 

previously estimated at 1,154,674 hours. 

With the removal of the initial 

certification burden already accounted 

for in the part 119 statement, addition 

of the SIC training program 

development and approval burden, the 

total new annual reduced burden 

estimate is 1,146,938.6 hours. This is a 

reduction of 7,735.4 hours from the 

previous estimate. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 

2018. 

Barbara L. Hall, 

FAA Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Performance, Policy, and Records 

Management Branch, ASP–110. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12798 Filed 6–13–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

[DOT–OST–2018–0081] 

Solving for Safety Visualization 

Challenge Solver Solicitation 

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics, Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (USDOT) is launching 

the Solving for Safety Visualization 

Challenge to incentivize the use of 

safety data in the development of 

innovative analytical visualization tools 

that will reveal insights into serious 

crashes and improve understanding of 

transportation safety. The Challenge 

serves as a platform to capture the 

imaginations of technology and data 

firms, transportation stakeholders, and 

state and local agencies to unlock their 

creativity, and empower them to 

develop innovative new data 

visualization tools that can help 

improve road and rail user safety, to 

benefit all transportation users. 

The Challenge is open to individuals 

and teams (Solvers) from the business 

and research communities, including 

technology companies, analytics firms, 

transportation carriers, industry 

associations, research institutions, 

universities, mapping and visualization 

providers. Solvers will compete for cash 

prizes that will be awarded throughout 

the multi-stage Challenge. The 

Challenge prize purse is $350,000, with 

four semi-finalists competing for a 

portion of the $100,000 interim prize 

and two final-stage Solvers competing 

for a portion of the $250,000 final prize. 

DATES: The Challenge will begin on June 

14, 2018. After the launch, USDOT will 

accept Stage I submissions up to 11:59 

p.m. EDT on July 31, 2018. A panel of 

judges will review team submissions 

and announce Stage I finalists in August 

2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information, and to register your 

intent to compete individually or as part 

of a team, visit www.transportation.gov/ 

Solve4Safety, email Solve4Safety@

dot.gov or contact Ed Strocko at 202– 

366–8189. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Problem 

In 2017, motor vehicle traffic crashes 

resulted in an estimated 37,150 

fatalities.1 Comprehensively, crashes are 

a societal harm that cost the Nation over 

$800 billion annually in lives lost or 

injured, as well as lost work 

productivity and property damage.2

When the cost of serious crashes is put 

into context, the weight of this issue 

becomes much more grave and the need 

for an innovative, non-traditional 

approach becomes apparent. Safety is 

USDOT’s number one priority, and we 

are committed to reducing the incidence 

of serious and fatal injuries on our 

roadways. 

The USDOT’s transportation safety 

programs have decades of research and 

design behind them and have proven 

effective in reducing injuries and 

fatalities by 40% between 1990 and 

2011. In recent years, these advances 

have leveled off, and new insights and 

strategies are required to make further 

advances. 

Traditional factors do not fully 

explain the causes of the recent 

significant increase in traffic fatalities. 

Increases in driving are one factor; 

however, the rate of fatalities per 100 

million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) 

also increased from 1.08 fatalities per 

100 million VMT in 2014 to an 

estimated 1.17 in 2017.1 Economic 

conditions, gasoline prices, weather and 

other factors are also correlated with 

increased traffic fatalities. 

USDOT seeks to reverse the current 

trend, rapidly detect changes that 

indicate unsafe conditions, and reduce 

transportation-related fatalities and 

serious injuries across the transportation 

system. The Department is pursuing 

data-informed decision-making to help 

strategically prioritize and address 

transportation safety risks. One pillar of 

this approach is data visualization. 

USDOT seeks clear, compelling data 

visualization tools that make data 

analysis and insights accessible to 

policy-makers, transportation providers 

and the public who make safety choices 

every day. 


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