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(e) Electrical power characteristics. 

The applicant must identify, declare, 

document, and provide to the installer 

as part of the requirements in § 33.5, the 

characteristics of any electrical power 

supplied from— 

(1) the aircraft to the engine electrical 

system, for starting and operating the 

engine, including transient and steadystate voltage limits, and 

(2) the engine to the aircraft via 

energy regeneration, and any other 

characteristics necessary for safe 

operation of the engine. 

(f) Environmental limits. 

Environmental limits that cannot 

adequately be substantiated by 

endurance demonstration, validated 

analysis, or a combination thereof must 

be demonstrated by the system and 

component tests in special condition no. 

27 of these special conditions. 

(g) Electrical system failures. The 

engine electrical system must— 

(1) Have a maximum rate of LOPC 

that is suitable for the intended aircraft 

application; 

(2) When in the full-up configuration, 

be single-fault tolerant, as determined 

by the Administrator, for electrical, 

electrically detectable, and electronic 

failures involving LOPC events; 

(3) Not have any single failure that 

results in hazardous engine effects; and 

(4) Ensure failures or malfunctions 

that lead to local events in the intended 

aircraft application do not result in 

hazardous engine effects, as defined in 

special condition no. 17(d)(2) of these 

special conditions, due to electrical 

system failures or malfunctions. 

(h) System safety assessment. The 

applicant must perform a system safety 

assessment. This assessment must 

identify faults or failures that affect 

normal operation, together with the 

predicted frequency of occurrence of 

these faults or failures. The intended 

aircraft application must be taken into 

account to assure the assessment of the 

engine system safety is valid. The rates 

of hazardous and major faults must be 

declared, documented, and provided to 

the installer as part of the requirements 

in § 33.5. 

Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on 

December 19, 2024. 

Patrick R. Mullen, 

Manager, Technical Policy Branch, Policy and 

Standards Division, Aircraft Certification 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30855 Filed 12–26–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 61 

[Docket No. FAA–2024–2580; Amdt. No. 61– 

158A] 

RIN 2120–AM06 

Regulatory Updates to BasicMed; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Correcting amendment. 

SUMMARY: On November 18, 2024, the 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

published a final rule titled ‘‘Regulatory 

Updates to BasicMed.’’ That document 

implemented the provisions of sections 

815 and 828 of the FAA Reauthorization 

Act of 2024. The final rule’s revision to 

the part 61 authority citation that cites 

the 2024 FAA Reauthorization Act was 

erroneously overwritten by another 

rulemaking action revising part 61. This 

document corrects the amendatory 

instruction and revises the part 61 

authority citation to be inclusive of the 

intended updates promulgated in the 

BasicMed final rule. 

DATES: This correction is effective 

December 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bradley C. Zeigler, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; 

telephone: (202) 267–1100; email: 

Bradley.C.Zeigler@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 1, 2024, the FAA published the 

final rule Removal of Expiration Date on 

a Flight Instructor Certificate; 

Additional Qualification Requirements 

To Train Initial Flight Instructor 

Applicants; and Other Provisions in the 

Federal Register (89 FR 80020) 

(hereinafter the CFI rule). That final rule 

removed the expiration date on flight 

instructor certificates to align with other 

airman certificates. Additional 

amendments included updating renewal 

requirements to recent experience 

requirements, introducing a new 

method for establishing recent flight 

instructor experience, and allowing 

instructors with a lapse of no more than 

three months to reinstate privileges via 

an approved flight instructor refresher 

course instead of a practical test. The 

final rule also added two new methods 

for flight instructors to qualify to train 

initial applicants. 

As part of the amendments made in 

the CFI rule, the FAA revised the 

authority citation for part 61 by 

removing 49 U.S.C. 106(g) as that 

paragraph had been removed and 

reserved as part of the FAA 

Reauthorization Act of 2024. The final 

rule added section 820 of Public Law 

118–63 to the authority citation. Section 

820 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 

2024 required the FAA to promulgate 

the CFI final rule within 18 months after 

the date of enactment of the Act, to at 

a minimum, update part 61, Code of 

Federal Regulations, to remove the 

expiration date on the flight instructor 

certificate and replace the requirement 

that a flight instructor renews their 

flight instructor certificate with 

appropriate recent experience 

requirements. The CFI rule became 

effective on December 1, 2024. 

Subsequently, on November 18, 2024, 

the FAA published the final rule 

Regulatory Updates to BasicMed (89 FR 

90572) (hereinafter the BasicMed rule). 

That final rule implemented the 

provisions of sections 815 and 828 of 

the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024. In 

the BasicMed rule, the FAA revised the 

authority citation for part 61 by adding 

sections 815 and 828 of Public Law 

118–63 to the authority citation for part 

61. The BasicMed final rule became 

effective on the date of publication, 

November 18, 2024. 

However, when the CFI rule became 

effective on December 1, 2024, and the 

authority citation for part 61 was 

revised in accordance with the 

instructions contained in the CFI rule, 

those revisions inadvertently removed 

the revisions made in the BasicMed 

final rule which published after, but 

became effective before, the CFI rule. 

Therefore, this correction revises the 

authority citation for part 61 to include 

both the revisions from the CFI rule and 

the BasicMed rule. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 61 

Aircraft, Airmen, Aviation safety, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

PART 61—CERTIFICATION: PILOTS, 

FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS, AND GROUND 

INSTRUCTORS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 61 is 

revised to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701– 

44703, 44707, 44709–44711, 44729, 44903, 

45102–45103, 45301–45302; Sec. 2307, Pub. 

L. 114–190, 130 Stat. 615 (49 U.S.C. 44703 

note); sec. 318, Pub. L. 115–254, 132 Stat. 

3186 (49 U.S.C. 44703 note); sec. 820, Pub. 

L. 118–63, 138 Stat. 1330 (49 U.S.C. 44939 

note); secs. 815 and 828, Pub. L. 118–63, 138 

Stat. 1328, 1336 (49 U.S.C. 44703 note). 


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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] 

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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] 

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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 


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