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for purposes of completing an assigned 

tasked. Members must not disclose to 

any third party, or use for any purposes 

other than the assigned task, any and all 

Confidential Information disclosed to 

one party by the other party, without the 

prior written consent of the party whose 

Confidential Information is being 

disclosed. All parties must treat the 

Confidential Information of the 

disclosing party as it would treat its 

own Confidential Information, but in no 

event shall it use less than a reasonable 

degree of care. If any Confidential 

Information is shared with the FAA 

representative on a working group, it 

must be properly marked in accordance 

with the Office of Rulemaking 

Committee Manual, ARM–001–15. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 11, 

2018. 

Lirio Liu, 

Designated Federal Officer, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00819 Filed 1–17–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee—New Task (Avionics 

Systems Harmonization Working 

Group) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of a new task assignment 

for the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) and solicitation of 

membership applicants. 

SUMMARY: The FAA assigned the 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) a new task to 

identify and develop recommendations 

on low energy alerting requirements to 

supplement previous work 

accomplished on low speed alerting in 

new transport category airplanes. This 

notice informs the public of the new 

ARAC activity. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe 

Jacobsen, Airplane & Flight Crew 

Interface Branch, Transport Airplane 

Directorate, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 1601 Lind Ave. SW, 

Renton, Washington 98057; telephone 

(425) 227–2011, facsimile (425) 227– 

1149; email joe.jacobsen@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

ARAC Acceptance of Task 

At the September 14, 2017, ARAC 

meeting, the FAA assigned and ARAC 

accepted this task. ARAC designated the 

task to the Transport Airplane and 

Engine (TAE) Subcommittee, which will 

assign the task to the existing Avionics 

Systems Harmonization Working Group 

(ASHWG). The ASHWG will support 

the ARAC, through the TAE 

Subcommittee, and will provide advice 

and recommendations on the assigned 

task. The TAE Subcommittee will send 

the recommendation report to the ARAC 

for review and acceptance. After ARAC 

accepts the recommendation report, it 

will submit the recommendation report 

to the FAA. 

Background 

The FAA established the ARAC to 

provide information, advice, and 

recommendations on aviation related 

issues that could result in rulemaking to 

the FAA Administrator, through the 

Associate Administrator of Aviation 

Safety. 

The FAA previously examined low 

speed alerting requirements and tasked 

the ARAC to provide information to 

develop standards and guidance 

material for low speed alerting systems. 

The information from that tasking may 

result in additional standards that 

complement existing low speed alerting 

requirements. However, as a result of 

the Asiana Flight 214 accident, the FAA 

needs additional recommendations 

related to context-dependent low energy 

safeguards with respect to low speed 

protection and alerting. 

Following the Asiana Flight 214 

accident investigation, the National 

Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) 

issued the following recommendation to 

the FAA: 

Task a panel of human factors, aviation 

operations, and aircraft design specialists, 

such as the Avionics Systems Harmonization 

Working Group, to develop design 

requirements for context-dependent low 

energy alerting systems for airplanes engaged 

in commercial operations (NTSB Safety 

Recommendation A–14–043). 

The Task 

The ASHWG will provide advice and 

recommendations to the ARAC through 

the TAE Subcommittee in a report that 

addresses the following questions 

relative to new airplane designs. The 

report should include rationale for the 

responses. 

1. Do you recommend any changes to 

the existing low speed alerting 

requirements to provide additional pilot 

reaction time in cases where the 

airplane is both slow and close to the 

ground? 

2. Do you recommend any new or 

revised guidance material to define an 

acceptable low energy alert? 

3. After reviewing airworthiness, 

safety, cost, and other relevant factors, 

including recent certification and fleet 

experience, are there any additional 

considerations that the FAA should take 

into account regarding avoidance of low 

energy conditions? 

4. Is coordination necessary with 

other harmonization working groups 

(e.g., Human Factors, Flight Test)? If 

yes, coordinate with that working group 

and report on that coordination. 

5. Develop a report containing 

recommendations on the findings and 

results of the tasks explained above. 

a. The recommendation report should 

document both majority and dissenting 

positions on the findings and the 

rationale for each position. 

b. Any disagreements should be 

documented, including the rationale for 

each position and the reasons for the 

disagreement. 

Schedule 

ARAC should submit the 

recommendation report to the FAA for 

review and acceptance no later than 

thirty (30) months from the first 

ASHWG meeting. 

Working Group Activity 

The ASHWG must comply with the 

procedures adopted by the ARAC. As 

part of the procedures, the working 

group must: 

1. Conduct a review and analysis of 

the assigned tasks and any other related 

materials or documents. 

2. Draft and submit a work plan for 

completion of the task, including the 

rationale supporting such a plan, for 

consideration by the TAE 

Subcommittee. 

3. Provide a status report at each TAE 

Subcommittee meeting. 

4. Draft and submit the 

recommendation report based on the 

review and analysis of the assigned 

tasks. 

5. Present the recommendation report 

at the TAE Subcommittee meeting. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

The ASHWG comprises technical 

experts having an interest in the 

assigned task. A working group member 

need not be a member representative of 

the ARAC TAE Subcommittee. 

In accordance with the provisions of 

the August 13, 2014, Office of 

Management and Budget guidance, 

‘‘Revised Guidance on Appointment of 

Lobbyists to Federal Advisory 

Committees, Boards, and Commissions’’ 

(79 FR 47482), continues the ban on 

registered lobbyists participating on 

Agency Boards and Commissions if 

participating in their ‘‘individual 

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on Agency Boards and Commissions in 

a ‘‘representative capacity’’ for the 

‘‘express purpose of providing a 

committee with the views of a 

nongovernmental entity, a recognizable 

group of persons or nongovernmental 

entities (an industry, sector, labor 

unions, or environmental groups, etc.) 

or state or local government.’’ (For 

further information see Lobbying 

Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) as 

amended, 2 U.S.C 1603, 1604, and 

1605.) 

If you wish to become a member of 

the ASHWG, write the person listed 

under the caption FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT expressing that 

desire. Describe your interest in the task 

and state the expertise you would bring 

to the working group. The FAA must 

receive all requests by February 20, 

2018. The ARAC, through the TAE 

Subcommittee, and the FAA will review 

the requests and advise you whether or 

not your request is approved. 

All members of the ASHWG who 

wish to participate in this task must 

actively participate in the working 

group, attend all meetings, and provide 

written comments when requested. 

Members must devote the resources 

necessary to support the working group 

in meeting any assigned deadlines. Each 

member must keep their management 

and those they may represent advised of 

working group activities and decisions 

to ensure the proposed technical 

solutions do not conflict with the 

position of those represented. Once the 

working group has begun deliberations, 

members will not be added or 

substituted without the approval of the 

TAE Subcommittee Chair, the FAA 

Subcommittee member, and the 

Working Group Chair. 

The Secretary of Transportation 

determined the formation and use of the 

ARAC is necessary and in the public 

interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed on the 

FAA by law. 

Confidential Information 

All final work products submitted to 

ARAC are public documents. Therefore, 

it should not contain any non-public 

proprietary, privileged, business, 

commercial, and other sensitive 

information (collectively, Confidential 

Information) that the working group 

members would not want to be publicly 

available. With respect to working 

groups, there may be instances where 

members will share Commercial 

Information within the working group 

for purposes of completing an assigned 

tasked. Members must not disclose to 

any third party, or use for any purposes 

other than the assigned task, any and all 

Confidential Information disclosed to 

one party by the other party, without the 

prior written consent of the party whose 

Confidential Information is being 

disclosed. All parties must treat the 

Confidential Information of the 

disclosing party as it would treat its 

own Confidential Information, but in no 

event shall it use less than a reasonable 

degree of care. If any Confidential 

Information is shared with the FAA 

representative on a working group, it 

must be properly marked in accordance 

with the Office of Rulemaking 

Committee Manual, ARM–001–15. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 11, 

2018. 

Lirio Liu, 

Designated Federal Officer, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00821 Filed 1–17–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Twenty Sixth RTCA SC–223 IPS and 

AeroMACS Plenary 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Twenty Sixth RTCA SC–223 IPS 

and AeroMACS Plenary. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

Twenty Sixth RTCA SC–223 IPS and 

AeroMACS Plenary. 

DATES: The meeting will be held March 

05–09, 2018 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at: 

Hosted by Rockwell Collins, Inc at, 

Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place, 200 

Rialto Place, Melbourne, FL 32901. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Morrison at rmorrison@rtca.org 

or 202–330–0654, or The RTCA 

Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW, Suite 

910, Washington, DC 20036, or by 

telephone at (202) 833–9339, fax at (202) 

833–9434, or website at http://

www.rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby 

given for a meeting of the Twenty Sixth 

RTCA SC–223 IPS and AeroMACS 

Plenary. The agenda will include the 

following: 

Monday, March 5, 2018, 9:00 A.M.–5:00 

P.M. 

1. Welcome, Introductions, 

Administrative Remarks 

2. Review of Previous Meeting Notes 

and Action Items 

3. Review of Current State of Industry 

Standards 

A. ICAO WG–I 

B. AEEC IPS Sub Committee 

C. EUROCAE WG Status 

4. Current State of Industry Activities 

A. SESAR Programs 

B. ESA IRIS Precursor 

C. Any Other Activities 

5. IPS Technical Discussions 

6. Review of IPS High Level Profile 

(Working Papers) 

7. Review of IPS RFC Detail Profiles 

8. Prioritization of Additional IETF 

RFCS for Profiling 

9. Discussion of Potential Joint Work 

With EUROCAE WG–108 

10. Any Other Topics of Interest 

11. Plans for Next Meetings 

12. Review of Action Items and Meeting 

Summary 

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 9:00 A.M.–5:00 

P.M. 

13. Continue With Plenary Agenda 

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 9:00 A.M.– 

5:00 P.M. 

14. Continue With Plenary Agenda 

Thursday, March 8, 2018, 9:00 A.M.– 

5:00 P.M. 

15. Continue With Plenary Agenda 

Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:00 A.M.–12:00 

P.M. 

16. Continue With Plenary Agenda 

17. Adjourn When Plenary Agenda is 

Complete 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 12, 

2018. 

Mohannad Dawoud, 

Management & Program Analyst, Partnership 

Contracts Branch, ANG–A17, NextGen, 

Procurement Services Division, Federal 

Aviation Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00773 Filed 1–17–18; 8:45 am] 

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