[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 71 (Thursday, April 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 18874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9154]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration


Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee; Transport Airplane and 
Engine Issues--New Task

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of new task assignment for the Aviation Rulemaking 
Advisory Committee (ARAC).

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SUMMARY: Notice is given of a new task assigned to and accepted by the 
Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC). This notice informs the 
public of the activities of ARAC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stewart R. Miller, Manager, Transport Standards Staff, ANM-110, FAA, 
Transport Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service, 1601 
Lind Ave. SW, Renton, WA 98055-4056, telephone (206) 227-2190, fax 
(206) 227-1320.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The FAA has established an Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee 
to provide advice and recommendations to the FAA Administrator, through 
the Associate Administrator for Regulation and Certification, on the 
full range of the FAA's rulemaking activities with respect to aviation-
related issues. This includes obtaining advice and recommendations on 
the FAA's commitment to harmonize its Federal Aviation Regulations 
(FAR) and practices with its trading partners in Europe and Canada.
    One area ARAC deals with is transport airplane and engine issues. 
These issues involve the airworthiness standards for transport category 
airplanes in 14 CFR parts 25, 33, and 35 and parallel provisions in 14 
CFR parts 121 and 135.

The Task

    This notice is to inform the public that the FAA has asked ARAC to 
provide advice and recommendation on the following harmonization task:

    Recommend disposition of public comments made to Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking No. 94-29, which proposed to revise the gust 
load design requirements for transport category airplanes, and 
provide for harmonization of the discrete gust requirements with the 
Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) of Europe as recently amended.

    Contrary to the usual practice, the FAA is not asking ARAC as part 
of this task to develop a final draft of the next action (i.e., 
supplemental notice, final rule, or withdrawal). However, ARAC must 
provide a document setting forth the rationale for the recommended 
disposition of each of the comments.

ARAC Acceptance of Task

    ARAC has accepted the task and has chosen to assign it to the 
existing Loads and Dynamics Harmonization Working Group. As a result of 
the new task assigned to the working group, membership is being 
reopened. The working group will serve as staff to ARAC to assist ARAC 
in the analysis of the assigned task. Working group recommendations 
must be reviewed and approved by ARAC. If ARAC accepts the working 
group's recommendations, it forwards them to the FAA as ARAC 
recommendations.

Working Group Reports to ARAC

    The Loads and Dynamic Harmonization Working Group is expected to 
comply with the procedures adopted by ARAC. As part of the procedures, 
the working group is expected to:
    1. Recommend a work plan for completion of the tasks, including the 
rationale supporting such a plan, for consideration at the meeting of 
ARAC to consider transport airplane and engine issues held following 
publication of this notice.
    2. Give a detailed conceptual presentation of the proposed 
recommendations, prior to proceeding with the work stated in item 3 
below.
    3. For each task, draft appropriate regulatory documents with 
supporting economic and other required analyses, and/or any other 
related guidance material or collateral documents the working group 
determines to be appropriate; or, if new or revised requirements or 
compliance methods are not recommended, a draft report stating the 
rationale for not making such recommendations.
    4. A status report at each meeting of ARAC held to consider 
transport airplane and engine issues.

Participation in the Working Group

    The Loads and Dynamic Harmonization Working Group is composed of 
experts from those organizations having an interest in the assigned 
task. A working group member need not be a representative of a member 
of the full committee.
    An individual who has expertise in the subject matter and wishes to 
become a member of the working group should write to the person listed 
under the caption FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT expressing that 
desire, describing his or her interest in the tasks, and stating the 
expertise he or she would bring to the working group. The request will 
be reviewed by the assistant chair, the assistant executive director, 
and the working group chair, and the individual will be advised whether 
or not the request can be accommodated.
    The Secretary of Transportation has determined that the formation 
and use of ARAC are necessary and in the public interest in connection 
with the performance of duties imposed on the FAA by law.
    Meetings of ARAC will be open to the public, except as authorized 
by section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Meetings of the 
Loads and Dynamics Harmonization Working Group will not be open to the 
public, except to the extent that individuals with an interest and 
expertise are selected to participate. No public announcement of 
working group meetings will be made.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 10, 1995.
Chris A. Christie,
Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. 95-9154 Filed 4-12-95; 8:45 am]
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