This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 80, No. 16 

Monday, January 26, 2015 

1 12 CFR part 702, subpart E; 79 FR 24311 (Apr. 

30, 2014). The rule refers to FICUs with assets of 

$10 billion or more as ‘‘covered credit unions.’’ 

2 78 FR 65583, 65584 (Nov. 1, 2013). 

3 12 CFR 46.5, 252.144, 252.154, and 325.204. 

4 79 FR 64026 (Oct. 27, 2014); 79 FR 69365 (Nov. 

21, 2014); 79 FR 71630 (Dec. 3, 2014). 

NATIONAL CREDIT UNION 

ADMINISTRATION 

12 CFR Part 702 

RIN 3133–AE44 

Capital Planning and Stress Testing— 

Schedule Shift 

AGENCY: National Credit Union 

Administration (NCUA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The NCUA Board (Board) is 

issuing proposed amendments to the 

regulation governing credit union 

capital planning and stress testing. The 

amendments would adjust the timing of 

certain events in the capital planning 

and stress testing cycles. If finalized, the 

revisions to the regulation would 

become effective January 1, 2016. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 27, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (Please 

send comments by one method only): 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• NCUA Web site: http://

www.ncua.gov/RegulationsOpinions

Laws/proposed_regs/proposed_

regs.html. Follow the instructions for 

submitting comments. 

• Email: Address to regcomments@

ncua.gov. Include ‘‘[Your name]— 

Comments on Proposed Rule—Capital 

Planning and Stress Testing—Schedule 

Shift’’ in the email subject line. 

• Fax: (703) 518–6319. Use the 

subject line described above for email. 

• Mail: Address to Gerard Poliquin, 

Secretary of the Board, National Credit 

Union Administration, 1775 Duke 

Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314– 

3428. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

mail address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeremy Taylor or Dale Klein, Senior 

Capital Markets Specialists, Office of 

National Examinations and Supervision, 

at the above address or telephone (703) 

518–6640. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. Proposed Amendments 

III. Regulatory Procedures 

I. Background 

In April 2014, the Board issued a final 

rule requiring capital planning and 

stress testing for federally insured credit 

unions (FICUs) with assets of $10 

billion or more.1 Capital planning 

requires covered credit unions to assess 

their financial condition and risks over 

the planning horizon under both 

expected and unfavorable conditions. 

Annual supervisory stress testing allows 

NCUA to obtain an independent test of 

these credit unions under stress 

scenarios. By setting a regulatory 

minimum capital ratio under stress, the 

final rule requires covered credit unions 

to take corrective action before they 

become undercapitalized to an extent 

that may cause loss to the National 

Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. 

The final rule provides several 

timeframes for the formulation and 

submission of capital plans and for the 

stress testing of covered credit unions. 

One critical date in the stress testing 

process is the date NCUA releases the 

baseline, adverse, and severely adverse 

economic scenarios that serve as basis 

for the testing. As noted in the preamble 

to the proposed rule, NCUA plans to 

base the scenarios on those developed 

by the Federal Reserve, the Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency (collectively, the banking 

agencies) for their regulated 

institutions.2 At the time the Board 

issued NCUA’s final rule, the banking 

agencies were scheduled to provide 

scenarios for their regulated institutions 

by November 15 each year.3 The 

banking agencies subsequently moved 

their scenario release dates to February 

15.4

The Board intends to ensure that 

scenarios used for credit union stress 

testing essentially conform to those used 

by the banking agencies, both in 

substance and timing. The new 

schedule on which the banking 

agencies’ scenarios are published 

necessitates NCUA’s modification of its 

own stress testing schedule. 

Accordingly, this proposed rule 

would amend the capital planning and 

stress testing rule to change NCUA’s 

scenario release date from December 1 

to February 28. In addition, the Board 

proposes to apply a more uniform fixed 

annual timeline for both capital 

planning and stress testing required 

under the rule. It also proposes to 

reword several provisions in the rule to 

clarify their meaning. The Board seeks 

comment on all aspects of this proposal. 

II. Proposed Amendments 

The proposed changes to the capital 

planning and stress testing rule are 

discussed in detail below. 

1. Section 702.502—Definitions 

Section 702.502 of the current rule 

defines certain terms used in the capital 

planning and stress testing rule. The 

proposed rule amends one current 

definition and adds one new definition. 

The current rule defines a ‘‘covered 

credit union’’ as a FICU whose assets 

were at least $10 billion on March 31 of 

‘‘the current calendar year,’’ which the 

Board believes may be unclear. The 

proposal clarifies that a covered credit 

union is one whose assets are $10 

billion or more and that a FICU that 

crosses the asset threshold as of March 

31 is subject to the capital planning and 

stress testing requirements of the rule in 

the following calendar year. In addition, 

the proposal adds a new definition for 

the term ‘‘capital planning process’’ to 

clarify that the process integrates the 

development of a capital planning 

policy with the formulation of a capital 

plan. 

2. Section 702.504—Capital Planning 

Paragraph (a)(1) of current § 702.504 

requires a covered credit union to 

submit a capital plan by February 28 of 

each year based on the credit union’s 

financial data as of September 30 of the 

preceding year. The proposal changes 

the capital plan submission date to 

April 30 and the as-of date to December 

31 of the preceding year. The Board 

believes that a year-end as-of date will 

coincide more closely with annual 

strategic planning cycles at the covered 

credit unions. With the as-of date 

shifted from September 30 to December 

31, the proposal correspondingly shifts 


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the capital plan submission date as well. 

The Board notes that the proposal 

provides a covered credit union four 

months from the as-of date to complete 

its capital plan, rather than the five 

months in the current rule. This reduces 

the time a covered credit union will 

have to complete its plan, but the Board 

believes the modification is necessary to 

enable other dates in the capital 

planning and stress testing cycles to be 

synchronized. The Board also believes it 

is sufficient time for covered credit 

unions to complete the capital planning 

process. 

3. Section 702.505—NCUA Action on 

Capital Plans 

Paragraph (a) of current § 702.505 

provides that NCUA will notify a 

covered credit union of the acceptance 

or rejection of its capital plan within 90 

calendar days of the plan’s submission. 

The proposal modifies this provision to 

establish a fixed date of July 31, which 

is 90 days after April 30, the revised 

date the covered credit union is 

required to submit its capital plan to 

NCUA under proposed § 702.504(a)(1). 

The Board has determined that agency 

resources will be more efficiently 

allocated with a fixed date. In addition, 

the fixed date will ensure uniform 

timing of NCUA acceptance or rejection 

of credit union capital plans. 

Paragraph (b) of current § 702.505 

enumerates the reasons NCUA may 

reject a covered credit union’s capital 

plan including, in paragraph (b)(5), that 

NCUA finds unacceptable weakness in 

the plan, the planning analysis, or any 

system or process supporting the 

analysis. The proposal adds ‘‘or policy’’ 

to this provision, clarifying the Board’s 

intention that a covered credit union’s 

capital policy and plan must intersect. 

Paragraph (d) of current § 702.505 

provides that if NCUA rejects a covered 

credit union’s capital plan, the credit 

union must update and resubmit a plan 

within 90 days of the rejection. For 

consistency with the other deadlines 

mandated by the rule, the proposal 

changes this to a fixed date of October 

31. The Board notes that this 

modification will not affect the amount 

of time a covered credit union will have 

to update and resubmit a capital plan. 

The proposal still provides a credit 

union 90 days to submit a revised plan. 

4. Section 702.506—Annual Supervisory 

Stress Testing 

Paragraph (a) of current § 702.506 

provides that NCUA will release the 

baseline, adverse, and severely adverse 

stress test scenarios by December 1 of 

each year. In light of the banking 

agencies’ new scenario release date of 

February 15, as discussed above, the 

proposal likewise shifts NCUA’s release 

date to February 28. The proposal also 

shifts the as-of date for financial data 

from September 30 to December 31, for 

consistency with the changes affecting 

the capital planning process. In 

addition, the proposal deletes a 

redundant reference in paragraph (a) 

that requires a credit union to include 

the stress test results in the following 

year’s capital plan, as the requirement is 

contained in paragraph (g). 

Paragraph (c) of current § 702.506 

provides that after NCUA has conducted 

three consecutive stress tests, a covered 

credit union may, with NCUA approval, 

conduct its own stress tests. It states that 

a credit union must submit its request 

to conduct the tests by July 31 and that 

NCUA will approve or disapprove the 

request by August 31. Consistent with 

the other proposed date shifts described 

above, the proposal moves the request 

date to October 31 and the response date 

to November 30. The proposal also adds 

language to paragraph (c) to clarify that 

a covered credit union must be subject 

to three NCUA-run stress tests before it 

seeks self-testing authority. This 

clarifying language makes paragraph (d) 

redundant, so the proposal deletes it. 

The proposal also redesignates 

paragraphs (e) through (i) as paragraphs 

(d) through (g), respectively. 

Paragraph (g) of current § 702.506 

states that NCUA will provide each 

covered credit union with its stress test 

results by May 31. Redesignated 

paragraph (f) of the proposal shifts that 

date to July 31. 

Paragraph (h) of current § 702.506 

states that if the NCUA-run stress tests 

show a covered credit union cannot 

maintain a stress test capital ratio of at 

least 5 percent, the credit union must 

provide NCUA, within 90 days of 

receipt of the stress test results, a stress 

test capital enhancement plan showing 

how it will meet the target. For 

consistency with the other deadlines in 

the rule, redesignated paragraph (g) of 

the proposal changes this to a fixed date 

of October 31, which is still 90 days 

from the time NCUA provides stress test 

results to the covered credit union. 

5. Table Summarizing Proposed Date 

Changes 

The following table summarizes the 

proposed changes to the annual 

timelines provided in the capital and 

stress testing rule. 

TABLE 1—REVISED ANNUAL CAPITAL PLANNING AND STRESS TESTING TIMELINES

Action required Current rule Proposed rule 

As-of date for covered credit union’s capital plan and NCUA stress test data ......... September 30 .......................................... December 31. 

NCUA releases stress test scenarios ......................................................................... December 1 ............................................. February 28. 

Covered credit union submits capital plan to NCUA (incorporating credit union–run 

stress tests, if authorized).

February 28 ............................................. April 30. 

NCUA provides NCUA-run stress test results to covered credit union ..................... May 31 ..................................................... July 31. 

NCUA accepts or rejects covered credit union’s capital plan .................................... Within 90 days of plan’s submission ....... July 31. 

Covered credit union submits stress test capital enhancement plan, if required ...... Within 90 days of receipt of test results October 31. 

Covered credit union submits revised capital plan, if required .................................. Within 90 days of NCUA rejection .......... October 31. 

Covered credit union requests authority to conduct stress tests ............................... July 31 ..................................................... October 31. 

NCUA approves or declines covered credit union’s request to conduct stress tests August 31 ................................................ November 30. 

III. Regulatory Procedures 

a. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

requires NCUA to prepare an analysis of 

any significant economic impact any 

proposed regulation may have on a 

substantial number of small entities 

(primarily those under $50 million in 

assets).5 Because the proposed rule only 

applies to FICUs with $10 billion or 

more in assets, it will not have any 

economic impact on small credit 

unions. 

b. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA) applies to rulemakings in which 

an agency by rule creates a new 

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or increases an existing burden.6 For 

purposes of the PRA, a paperwork 

burden may take the form of a reporting 

or recordkeeping requirement, both 

referred to as information collections. 

The proposed changes to part 702 do 

not impose any new information 

collection requirements, and there is no 

new burden. 

c. Executive Order 13132 

Executive Order 13132 encourages 

independent regulatory agencies to 

consider the impact of their actions on 

state and local interests. NCUA, an 

independent regulatory agency as 

defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(5), voluntarily 

complies with the executive order to 

adhere to fundamental federalism 

principles. The proposed rule does not 

have substantial direct effects on the 

states, on the relationship between the 

national government and the states, or 

on the distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government. NCUA has, 

therefore, determined that this proposal 

does not constitute a policy that has 

federalism implications for purposes of 

the executive order. 

d. Assessment of Federal Regulations 

and Policies on Families 

NCUA has determined that this 

proposed rule will not affect family 

well-being within the meaning of 

section 654 of the Treasury and General 

Government Appropriations Act, 1999, 

Public Law 105–277, 112 Stat. 2681 

(1998). 

List of Subjects in 12 CFR Part 702 

Credit unions, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

By the National Credit Union 

Administration Board, on January 15, 2015. 

Gerard Poliquin, 

Secretary of the Board. 

For the reasons discussed above, the 

National Credit Union Administration 

proposes to amend part 702 as follows: 

PART 702—CAPITAL ADEQUACY 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 702 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1766(a), 1790d. 

■ 2. Amend § 702.502 by adding a 

definition of ‘‘Capital planning process’’ 

in alphabetical order and revising the 

definition of ‘‘Covered credit union’’ to 

read as follows: 

§ 702.502 Definitions. 

* * * * * 

Capital planning process means 

development of a capital policy and 

formulation of a capital plan that 

conforms to this policy. 

Covered credit union means a 

federally insured credit union whose 

assets are $10 billion or more. A credit 

union that crosses the asset threshold as 

of March 31 is subject to the capital 

planning and stress testing requirements 

of this subpart in the following calendar 

year. 

* * * * * 

■ 3. Amend § 702.504 by revising 

paragraph (a)(1) to read as follows: 

§ 702.504 Capital planning. 

(a) * * * 

(1) A covered credit union must 

develop and maintain a capital plan. It 

must submit this plan and its capital 

policy to NCUA by April 30 each year, 

or such later date as directed by NCUA. 

The plan must be based on the credit 

union’s financial data as of December 31 

of the preceding calendar year, or such 

other date as directed by NCUA. NCUA 

will assess whether the capital planning 

and analysis process is sufficiently 

robust in determining whether to accept 

a credit union’s capital plan. 

* * * * * 

■ 4. Amend § 702.505 by revising 

paragraphs (a), (b)(5), and (d) to read as 

follows: 

§ 702.505 NCUA action on capital plans. 

(a) Timing. NCUA will notify the 

covered credit union of the acceptance 

or rejection of its capital plan by July 31 

of the year in which the credit union 

submitted its plan. 

(b) * * * 

(5) NCUA finds unacceptable 

weakness in the capital plan or policy, 

the capital planning analysis, or any 

critical system or process supporting 

capital analysis; 

* * * * * 

(d) Resubmission of a capital plan. If 

NCUA rejects a credit union’s capital 

plan, the credit union must update and 

resubmit an acceptable capital plan to 

NCUA by October 31 of the year in 

which the credit union submitted its 

plan. The resubmitted capital plan 

must, at a minimum, address: 

(1) NCUA-noted deficiencies in the 

credit union’s original capital plan or 

policy; and 

(2) Remediation plans for unresolved 

supervisory issues contributing to the 

rejection of the credit union’s original 

capital plan. 

* * * * * 

■ 5. Amend § 702.506 by: 

■ a. Revising the first two sentences of 

paragraph (a); 

■ b. Revising paragraph (c); 

■ b. Removing paragraph (d); 

■ c. Redesignating paragraphs (e) 

through (i) as (d) through (h), 

respectively; and 

■ d. Revising newly redesignated 

paragraphs (d) through (g). 

The revisions read as follows: 

§ 702.506 Annual supervisory stress 

testing. 

(a) General requirements. The 

supervisory stress tests consist of 

baseline, adverse, and severely adverse 

scenarios, which NCUA will provide by 

February 28 of each year. The tests will 

be based on the credit union’s financial 

data as of December 31 of the preceding 

calendar year, or such other date as 

directed by NCUA. * * * 

* * * * * 

(c) Credit union-run tests under 

NCUA supervision. After NCUA has 

completed three consecutive 

supervisory stress tests of a covered 

credit union, the covered credit union 

may, with NCUA approval, conduct the 

tests described in this section. A 

covered credit union must submit its 

request to NCUA to conduct its own 

stress test by October 31 for the 

following annual cycle. NCUA will 

approve or decline the credit union’s 

request by November 30 of the year in 

which the credit union submitted its 

request. NCUA reserves the right to 

conduct the tests described in this 

section on any covered credit union at 

any time. Where both NCUA and a 

covered credit union have conducted 

the tests, the results of NCUA’s tests 

will determine whether the covered 

credit union has met the requirements 

of this section. 

(d) Potential impact on capital. In 

conducting stress tests under this 

subpart, NCUA or the covered credit 

union will estimate the following for 

each scenario during each quarter of the 

stress test horizon: 

(1) Losses, pre-provision net revenues, 

loan and lease loss provisions, and net 

income; and 

(2) The potential impact on the stress 

test capital ratio, incorporating the 

effects of any capital action over the 9- 

quarter stress test horizon and 

maintenance of an allowance for loan 

losses appropriate for credit exposures 

throughout the horizon. NCUA or the 

covered credit union will conduct the 

stress tests without assuming any risk 

mitigation actions on the part of the 

covered credit union, except those 

existing and identified as part of the 

covered credit union’s balance sheet, or 

off-balance sheet positions, such as asset 

sales or derivatives positions, on the 

date of the stress test. 

(e) Information collection. Upon 

request, the covered credit union must 


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provide NCUA with any relevant 

qualitative or quantitative information 

requested by NCUA pertinent to the 

stress tests under this section. 

(f) Stress test results. NCUA will 

provide each covered credit union with 

the results of the stress tests by July 31 

of the year in which it conducted the 

tests. A credit union conducting its own 

stress tests must incorporate the test 

results in its capital plan. 

(g) Supervisory actions. If NCUA-run 

stress tests show that a covered credit 

union does not have the ability to 

maintain a stress test capital ratio of 5 

percent or more under expected and 

stressed conditions in each quarter of 

the 9-quarter horizon, the credit union 

must provide NCUA, by October 31 of 

the calendar year in which NCUA 

conducted the tests, a stress test capital 

enhancement plan showing how it will 

meet that target. If credit union-run 

stress tests show that a covered credit 

union does not have the ability to 

maintain a stress test capital ratio of 5 

percent or more under expected and 

stressed conditions in each quarter of 

the 9-quarter horizon, the credit union 

must incorporate a stress test capital 

enhancement plan into its capital plan. 

Any affected credit union operating 

without a stress test capital 

enhancement plan accepted by NCUA 

may be subject to supervisory actions on 

the part of NCUA. 

* * * * * 

[FR Doc. 2015–01239 Filed 1–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7535–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2015–0080; Directorate 

Identifier 2012–NM–189–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; ATR—GIE 

Avions de Transport Re ́gional 

Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: We propose to adopt a new 

airworthiness directive (AD) for all 

ATR—GIE Avions de Transport 

Re ́gional Model ATR42 airplanes. This 

proposed AD was prompted by several 

reports of a cracked floor beam at frame 

(FR) 26, and of discrepancies in certain 

wing inspection tasks in maintenance 

documents that could lead to errors in 

scheduling inspection intervals of 

structurally significant items (SSIs). 

This proposed AD would require 

repetitive inspections of certain floor 

beams and revision of the maintenance 

or inspection program to include 

inspections of several areas of the 

wings. We are proposing this AD to 

detect and correct any cracking of the 

floor beam at FR 26 and several areas of 

the wings, which could lead to reduced 

structural integrity of the airplane. 

DATES: We must receive comments on 

this proposed AD by March 12, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

using the procedures found in 14 CFR 

11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

For service information identified in 

this proposed AD, contact ATR—GIE 

Avions de Transport Re ́gional, 1, Alle ́e 

Pierre Nadot, 31712 Blagnac Cedex, 

France; telephone +33 (0) 5 62 21 62 21; 

fax +33 (0) 5 62 21 67 18; email 

continued.airworthiness@atr.fr; Internet 

http://www.aerochain.com. You may 

view this referenced service information 

at the FAA, Transport Airplane 

Directorate, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., 

Renton, WA. For information on the 

availability of this material at the FAA, 

call 425–227–1221. 

Examining the AD Docket 

You may examine the AD docket on 

the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov by searching for 

and locating Docket No. FAA–2015– 

0080; or in person at the Docket 

Management Facility between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. The AD docket 

contains this proposed AD, the 

regulatory evaluation, any comments 

received, and other information. The 

street address for the Docket Operations 

office (telephone 800–647–5527) is in 

the ADDRESSES section. Comments will 

be available in the AD docket shortly 

after receipt. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Rodriguez, Aerospace Engineer, 

International Branch, ANM–116, 

Transport Airplane Directorate, FAA, 

1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 

98057–3356; telephone 425–227–1137; 

fax 425–227–1149. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

We invite you to send any written 

relevant data, views, or arguments about 

this proposed AD. Send your comments 

to an address listed under the 

ADDRESSES section. Include ‘‘Docket No. 

FAA–2015–0080; Directorate Identifier 

2012–NM–189–AD’’ at the beginning of 

your comments. We specifically invite 

comments on the overall regulatory, 

economic, environmental, and energy 

aspects of this proposed AD. We will 

consider all comments received by the 

closing date and may amend this 

proposed AD based on those comments. 

We will post all comments we 

receive, without change, to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information you provide. We 

will also post a report summarizing each 

substantive verbal contact we receive 

about this proposed AD. 

Discussion 

The European Aviation Safety Agency 

(EASA), which is the Technical Agent 

for the Member States of the European 

Union, has issued EASA Airworthiness 

Directive 2012–0193, dated September 

25, 2012 (referred to after this as the 

Mandatory Continuing Airworthiness 

Information, or ‘‘the MCAI’’), to correct 

an unsafe condition for all ATR—GIE 

Avions de Transport Re ́gional Model 

ATR42 airplanes. The MCAI states: 

Floor beam at Frame 26: During 

maintenance checks, the floor beam at frame 

(FR) 26 was found cracked on several ATR 

42 aeroplanes. 

This condition, if not detected and 

corrected, could lead to reduce the structural 

integrity of the aeroplane. A new Structural 

Significant Items (SSI) task will be 

introduced in the next revision of the ATR42 

Time Limits document in order to address 

this issue. 

MRBR/MPD discrepancy on Wings item: A 

discrepancy has been noticed between the 

Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR)/ 

Maintenance Planning Document (MPD) and 

the Time Limits document. ATR 

modifications 02805 and 08039 were 

erroneously stated similar in the MRBR/

MPD, inducing misleading applicability of 

the SSI tasks depending upon the document 

used and leading operators to miss several 

inspections, as evidenced during a recent 

review. 

Following the structural investigation, new 

inspection thresholds have been calculated 

and will be introduced in the next revisions 

of the ATR Time Limits documents (Revision 

8 and Revision 9, as applicable to the 

aeroplane models) and MRBR/MPD 

documents. 


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