Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 248 / Friday, December 27, 2024 / Rules and Regulations 105447 

1Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate 

Requirement final rule, 89 FR 51416 (Jun. 18, 2024), 

corrected at 89 FR 57729 (Jul. 16, 2024). 

Issued under authority provided by 49 

U.S.C. 106(f), 44701(a), and 44703 in 

Washington, DC. 

Brandon Roberts, 

Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30940 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 120 

[Docket No. FAA–2020–1058] 

RIN 2120–AK09 

Drug and Alcohol Testing of 

Certificated Repair Station Employees 

Located Outside of the United States; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: On December 18, 2024, the 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

published a final rule in the Federal 

Register titled ‘‘Drug and Alcohol 

Testing of Certificated Repair Station 

Employees Located Outside of the 

United States’’. 

The final rule inadvertently 

mischaracterized two commenters 

which does not accurately reflect their 

respective memberships. This document 

makes those corrections. 

DATES: Effective January 17, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Rodriguez Brown, Office of 

Aerospace Medicine, Drug Abatement 

Division, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone (202) 267–8442; email: 

drugabatement@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 18, 2024, the FAA published 

the final rule Drug and Alcohol Testing 

of Certificated Repair Station Employees 

Located Outside of the United States 

(RIN 2120–AK09) in the Federal 

Register at 89 FR 103416. That 

document requires certificated repair 

stations located outside the territory of 

the United States (U.S.) whose 

employees perform safety-sensitive 

maintenance functions on certain air 

carrier aircraft to conduct alcohol and 

controlled substance testing in a manner 

acceptable to the Administrator and 

consistent with the applicable laws of 

the country in which the repair station 

is located. The document also directs 

the repair station to comply with the 

requirements of the Drug and Alcohol 

Testing Program published by the FAA 

and the Procedures for Transportation 

Workplace Drug Testing Programs 

published by the Department of 

Transportation, as proposed. However, 

the documents also allows foreign 

governments, on behalf of certificated 

repair stations within their territories, 

and individual foreign repair stations 

subject to the rule to obtain the 

Administrator’s recognition of a 

compatible alternative that contains 

minimum criteria in lieu of compliance 

with certain components of the Drug 

and Alcohol Testing Program. 

In that final rule, the FAA 

inadvertently mischaracterized two 

commenters which does not accurately 

reflect their respective memberships. 

This document makes those corrections 

Correction 

In the final rule FR Doc. 2024–29837, 

beginning on page 103416, in the 

Federal Register of December 18, 2024, 

make the following correction: On page 

103423 in the first column, in the first 

full paragraph, correct the last sentence 

to read as: ‘‘The 17 supporting 

commenters included transportation 

labor groups and unions (International 

Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters), 

Transport Workers Union of America 

(TWU), and Transportation Trades 

Department, AFL–CIO (TTD)), a pilots’ 

union (Allied Pilots Association (APA)), 

a trade association (National Drug & 

Alcohol Screening Association 

(NDASA)), a Substance Abuse 

Professional (SAP) Directory service 

(SAPList), a software provider (Nexus 

33 Group LLC), and 10 individuals.’’ 

Issued under authority provided by 49 

U.S.C. 106(f), 45102, 44731(d) in 

Washington, DC. 

Brandon Roberts, 

Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30848 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 135 

[Docket No. FAA–2019–0360; Amdt. No. 

135–145A] 

RIN 2120–AL12 

Removal of Check Pilot Medical 

Certificate Requirement; Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Correcting amendments. 

SUMMARY: On June 18, 2024, the Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA) 

published a final rule titled ‘‘Removal of 

Check Pilot Medical Certificate 

Requirement,’’ which was corrected on 

July 16, 2024. That final rule removed 

inconsistencies applicable to the 

qualification requirements for check 

pilots and flight instructors in domestic, 

flag, and supplemental operations and 

flight instructors in commuter and on 

demand operations so that check pilots, 

check flight engineers, and flight 

instructors can continue to perform 

their functions in aircraft without a 

medical certificate unless they are 

serving as required flightcrew members. 

It also removed the medical certificate 

requirement for flight instructors in 

commuter and on-demand operations 

who perform their functions in aircraft 

and are not serving as required 

flightcrew members. The final rule 

inadvertently failed to revise two 

section headings. This document makes 

those corrections. 

DATES: This correction is effective 

December 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Jackson, Aviation Safety 

Inspector, Air Transportation Division, 

Flight Standards Service, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20591; telephone: 202–267–8166; 

email: joshua.jackson@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

18, 2024, the FAA published a final rule 

titled ‘‘Removal of Check Pilot Medical 

Certificate Requirement.’’ 1 That final 

rule removed inconsistencies applicable 

to the qualification requirements for 

check pilots and flight instructors in 

domestic, flag, and supplemental 

operations and flight instructors in 

commuter and on demand operations so 

that check pilots, check flight engineers, 

and flight instructors can continue to 

perform their functions in aircraft 

without a medical certificate unless they 

are serving as required flightcrew 

members. It also removed the medical 

certificate requirement for flight 

instructors in commuter and on-demand 

operations who perform their functions 

in aircraft and are not serving as 

required flightcrew members. This is the 

second set of corrections. The first set of 

corrections was published in the 

Federal Register on July 16, 2024 (89 FR 

57729). This document augments the 

previously published corrections. 

After publication of the final rule, the 

FAA determined that the revisions to 

the section headings for §§ 135.339 and 


khammond on DSK9W7S144PROD with RULES