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Environmental Review 

This proposal will be subject to an 

environmental analysis in accordance 

with FAA Order 1050.1F, 

‘‘Environmental Impacts: Policies and 

Procedures’’ prior to any FAA final 

regulatory action. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 

Airspace, Incorporation by reference, 

Navigation (air). 

The Proposed Amendment 

In consideration of the foregoing, the 

Federal Aviation Administration 

proposes to amend 14 CFR part 71 as 

follows: 

PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, 

B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR 

TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND 

REPORTING POINTS 

■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR 

part 71 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g); 40103, 

40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 

1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. 

§ 71.1 [Amended] 

■ 2. The incorporation by reference in 

14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order JO 7400.11J, 

Airspace Designations and Reporting 

Points, dated July 31, 2024, and 

effective September 15, 2024, is 

amended as follows: 

Paragraph 6005 Class E Airspace Areas 

Extending Upward From 700 Feet or More 

Above the Surface of the Earth. 

* * * * * 

AWP AZ E5 Buckeye, AZ [Establish] 

Buckeye Municipal Airport, AZ 

(Lat. 33°25′21′′ N, long. 112°41′10′′ W) 

That airspace extending upward from 700 

feet above the surface within a 6.5-mile 

radius of the Buckeye Municipal Airport; and 

within 1.2 miles each side of the 182° bearing 

from the airport extending from the 6.5-mile 

radius of the airport to 7.3 miles south of the 

airport. 

* * * * * 

Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 

2, 2024. 

Martin A. Skinner, 

Acting Manager, Operations Support Group, 

ATO Central Service Center. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28435 Filed 12–4–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 183 

[Docket No. FAA–2024–2063] 

FAA Requests Public Comment on 

Possible Delegation of Certain Air 

Operator Certification Tasks 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The FAA issues this 

document to assess interest in and 

invite public comment on the possible 

expansion of FAA’s delegation program 

to include new certification tasks that 

might be accomplished by individual 

designees or Organization Designation 

Authorization (ODA) holders. The 

expanded tasks being considered are 

certification of all commuter and ondemand operator types, excluding 10 or 

more passenger operations. The effort 

may require the FAA to initiate 

rulemaking corresponding with 

additional certification tasks for 

individual designees and a revision to 

policy for additional ODA authorized 

functions. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

February 3, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2024–2063, 

using any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

Electronic mail: Send comments to 9- 

AVS-ODA-Office@faa.gov. 

Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m., and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at (202) 493–2251. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov. All comments, 

including attachments and other 

supporting material, will become part of 

the public record and subject to public 

disclosure. 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI): CBI is commercial or financial 

information that is customarily and 

treated as private by its owner. Under 

the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

(5 United States Code (U.S.C.) 552), CBI 

is exempt from public disclosure. If 

your comments in response to this 

Notice contain commercial or financial 

information that is customarily treated 

as private, that you actually treat as 

private, and that is relevant or 

responsive to this Notice, it is important 

that you clearly designate the submitted 

comments as CBI. Please mark each 

page of your submission containing CBI 

as ‘‘PROPIN’’ to indicate that it contains 

proprietary information. FAA will treat 

such marked submissions as 

confidential under FOIA and not place 

them in the public docket of this Notice. 

Submissions containing CBI should be 

sent to the individual listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Scott Geddie, Policy and Oversight 

Integration Section, AVS–64, AVS ODA 

Office, Federal Aviation Administration, 

by telephone at 405–954–6897 or by 

email at Scott.Geddie@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Delegation in the FAA has been 

foundational to accomplishing the 

agency’s safety work for nearly 100 

years. Title 49 U.S.C. 44702(d) grants 

the FAA the authority to delegate to 

private persons a matter related to the 

examination, testing, and inspection 

necessary to issue certificates and 

issuance of the certificate. Regulations 

implementing those statutory 

requirements are contained in 14 CFR 

part 183, Representatives of the 

Administrator. The initial rule for 14 

CFR part 183 was published in 1962. 

Since that time, it has remained largely 

unchanged with few new designee types 

introduced. The last significant change 

occurred in 2009 with the introduction 

of the Organization Designation 

Authorization (ODA) when existing 

Designated Alteration Station (DAS), 

Delegation Option Authorization (DOA) 

and Special Federal Aviation Regulation 

36 (SFAR 36) authorization programs 

were phased out. The FAA is now 

potentially seeking to broaden the scope 

of approved tasks performed under the 

delegation program to assist with FAA 

roles in part 135 operations certification 

activities. 

In the last four years, the FAA Flight 

Standards Service (FS) experienced a 

steady increase in applications for Air 

Carrier, Air Operator, and Air Agency 

certificates. This increase has outpaced 

FAA’s capacity to timely process 


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applications and complete 

certifications. 

Growing concerns from industry 

stakeholders, increased congressional 

mandates to improve the certification 

process, and continual growth of the 

aviation industry over the next decade 

will continue to affect FAA resources 

available to conduct initial 

certifications. Comprehensive changes 

in the delegation program may be one 

way to increase operational performance 

to meet the increase in demand and 

lower the impact on FS resources. 

Description of Request for Comments 

on Expansion 

To address this issue, the FAA is 

considering additions to and expansion 

of the current delegation program to 

include tasks associated with issuing 

operator certificates under 14 CFR part 

135, excluding 10 or more passenger 

operations. 

For individual designees, this effort 

would require the FAA to initiate 

rulemaking to amend part 183 and add 

these new certification tasks. Part 183, 

subpart C, Kinds of Designations: 

Privileges, does not allow an individual 

designee to perform functions related to 

operations. However, for organizations, 

current provisions in part 183, subpart 

D, Organization Designation 

Authorization, specifically §§ 183.41, 

183.59, and 183.65, already contain 

privileges related to operations and may 

provide an efficient method to expand 

the delegation program to part 135 

certification tasks. Accordingly, the 

FAA could expand the ODA program 

without rulemaking through a revision 

to its policy and guidance to include the 

additional ODA authorized functions for 

operations. 

The information obtained from this 

Notice will assist the FAA in 

determining potential interest from 

qualified private persons with 

operations, training, and/or 

maintenance experience applicable to 

air carrier and/or air operator 

certification activities, and application 

activities involving FAA roles. 

The FAA wishes to hear from the 

public and any stakeholders that would 

consider participating in an FAA 

delegation program specific to Part 135 

certification tasks. Through this Notice, 

the FAA seeks information regarding: 

• Recommended certification tasks to 

be delegated (refer to FAA Order 8900.1, 

Volume 2, Chapter 4, Section 1 through 

8), available at https://drs.faa.gov/ 

browse/ORDER_8900.1/doctypeDetails, 

Æ Phase 1—Preapplication 

Æ Phase 2—Formal Application 

(Safety Assurance System [SAS] 

Business Process Modules 1 and 2) 

Æ Phase 3—Design Assessment (SAS 

Business Process Modules 2, 3, & 4) 

Æ Phase 4—Performance Assessment 

(SAS Business Process Modules 2, 

3, & 4) 

Æ Phase 5—Administrative Functions 

Æ Single-Pilot, Single Pilot-inCommand, and Basic Part 135 

Operations 

Æ Evaluate a Part 135 (Nine or Less) 

Certificate Holder/Applicant’s 

Maintenance Requirements 

• Potential barriers to success, 

• Steps the FAA should consider to 

optimize implementation success, and 

• Commenters’ business information 

including address, primary contact, 

FAA certificate(s) held, and experience 

with FAA operator certification tasks. 

The following is intended to be an 

illustrative but not comprehensive list 

of possible certification tasks per FAA 

Order 8900.1 that are within the scope 

of this Notice. 

• Review, evaluate, and accept 

certification application documents. 

• Review, evaluate, and accept or 

approve operator manuals and written 

procedures, including operations and 

maintenance manuals. 

• Review and evaluate personnel 

qualifications. 

• Review and evaluate aircraft 

records. 

• Evaluate applicant demonstration 

activities. 

• Perform and evaluate aircraft 

configuration conformity. 

• Review, evaluate, and approve 

aircraft inspection programs. 

• Review, evaluate, and approve 

Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL). 

• Issuance of operating certificates. 

Comments Invited 

The FAA invites interested parties to 

provide comments on this notice and 

the specific information requested in the 

preceding paragraph. Send your 

comments to an address listed under the 

ADDRESSES section. The subject line 

should state ‘‘Response to FAA’s request 

for comment on possible delegation of 

14 CFR part 135 certification tasks’’ and 

should include ‘‘Docket No. FAA–2024– 

2063’’ at the beginning of the comments. 

The FAA will consider all comments 

received on or before the closing date 

and will consider comments filed late if 

it is possible to do so without incurring 

delay. 

Scott A. Geddie, 

Manager, AVS–64, Policy and Oversight 

Integration Section, AVS ODA Office. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27782 Filed 12–4–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

26 CFR Part 301 

[REG–120137–19] 

RIN 1545–BP66 

Update of Regulations Regarding 

Payment of Tax by Commercially 

Acceptable Means; Hearing 

Cancellation 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Cancellation of a notification of 

public hearing. 

SUMMARY: This document cancels a 

public hearing on the proposed rule that 

related to the payment of tax by 

commercially acceptable means and 

reflect changes to the law made by the 

Taxpayer First Act that would allow the 

IRS to directly accept payments of tax 

by credit or debit card, without having 

to connect taxpayers to third-party 

payment processors. 

DATES: The public hearing scheduled for 

December 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern 

Time (ET) is cancelled. 

ADDRESSES: Public comments submitted 

for the proposed rule (89 FR 54746, July 

2, 2024) can be viewed electronically 

via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

https://www.regulations.gov by 

searching REG–120137–19. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Concerning the proposed regulations, 

Crystal Jackson-Kaloz, Office of Chief 

Counsel (Procedure and Administration) 

at (202) 317–5191 (not a toll-free 

number); or any other concerns contact: 

Publications and Regulations Section at 

(202) 317–6901 (not a toll-free number), 

or by email at publichearings@irs.gov 

(preferred). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A 

notification of public hearing (REG– 

120137–19) that was published in the 

Federal Register on Friday, October 18, 

2024 (89 FR 83825), announced that a 

public hearing held in person and by 

teleconference was scheduled for 

December 6, 2024, at 10 a.m. E.T. The 

subject of the public hearing is under 26 

CFR part 301. The public comment 

period for these regulations expired on 

September 24, 2024. The notification of 

public hearing instructed those 

interested in testifying at the public 

hearing to submit a request to testify 

and an outline of the topics to be 

addressed by November 6, 2024. We did 

not receive any requests to testify at the 

Public Hearing. Therefore, the public 


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