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- E January 22, 2015

Exemption No. 11152 Regulatory Docket No. FAA

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Ms. Stacey Bechdolt Senior Director, Safety and Technical Affairs Regional Airline A ssociation 2025 M Street, NW., Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036

Dear Ms. Bechdolt :

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your request for exemption. It transmits our decision, explains its basis, and gives you the conditions and limitations o f the exemption, including

the date it ends.

The Basis for Our Decision

By letter dated October 6, 2014 , you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on

behalf of Regional Airline Association (RAA ) for an exemption from § § 61.3(a)

, 61.3(c), an d

121.383 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) to the extent necessary to allow RAA

to issue written confirmation of an FAA

- issued crewmember certificate to a flight crewmember employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carri er’s approved record system.

The FAA has determined that good cause exists for not publishing a summary of the petition in the Federal Register because the requested exemption would not set a precedent, and any delay in acting on this petition would be de trimental to RAA

.

The FAA has issued a grant of exemption in circumstances similar in all material respects to those presented in your petition. In Grant of Exemption No. 5487 (copy enclosed), the FAA found that2

the proposed exemption was in the public i nterest and provide d a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the affected regulation, subject to certain conditions and limitations.

Having reviewed your reasons for requesting an exemption, I find that

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• they are similar in all material respects to relief previously requested in the enclosed Grant of Exemption No. 5487 ;

• the reasons stated by the FAA for granting the enclosed Grant of Exemption No. 5487 also apply to the situation you present; and

• a grant of exemption is in the public interest.

O ur Decision

Under the authority contained in 49 U.S.C. §§ 106(f), 40113 and 44701, which the FAA Administrator has delegated to me, I hereby grant Regional Airlines Association an exemption from

14 CFR §§ 61.3(a), 61.3(c), and 121.383 to the extent necessa ry to allow RAA to issue written

confirmation of an FAA

- issued crewmember certificate to a flight crewmember employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system , subj ect to the conditions

and limitations described below.

Conditions and Limitations

1. Prior to utilizing any provision of this plan each air carrier must develop, submit to, and have approved by the FAA Principal Operations Inspector assigned to that carrier a plan outlining the procedures it expects to e mploy in issuing a temporary confirmation document to crewmembers who do not have in their personal possession the airmen or medical certificate required under §§ 61.3 and/or 63.3 for a particular flight.

2. If the individual no longer has any identification, the carrier’s procedures, specified in

C ondition No. 1, must include a method to assure positive identification of the individual.

3. Each airman who operates a flight under this exemption must comply with §§ 61.29(c) and/or 63.16(d) and assure that a reques t for an official communication from the FAA confirming the applicable certificate is made within 72 hours of the initiation of any flight conducted under this exemption. The air carrier is authorized to make this application to the

FAA on behalf of each applicable airman. The airman must provide a copy of the official communication to the air carrier within 24 hours of the receipt of that official communication.

4. The carrier’s confirmation must include the written words “Issued under the authority of

Exem ption No. ‘XXXX’ , as amended.”3

5. The privileges of this exemption may only be exercised when the affected airman operates totally within the District of Columbia and the 48 contiguous states of the United States.

This exemption terminates on January 31, 20 17 , unless sooner superseded or rescinded.

Sincerely,

/s/ John Barbagallo Acting Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service

Enclosure