Document ID: FAA-2018-0082-0005
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Suspected Unapproved Parts Report
Posted Date: 2019-05-02T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18915-18916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08871]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. 2018-0082]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; 
Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Suspected 
Unapproved Parts Report

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 
invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information 
collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period 
soliciting comments on the following collection of information was 
published on February 19, 2019. The information collected on the FAA 
Form 8120-11 is reported voluntarily by manufacturers, repair stations, 
aircraft owner/operators, air carriers, and the general public who wish 
to report suspected unapproved parts to the FAA for review. The report 
information is collected and correlated by the FAA, Aviation Safety 
Hotline Program Office, and used to determine if an unapproved part 
investigation is warranted.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by June 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on 
the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Comments should be 
addressed to the attention of the Desk Officer, Department of 
Transportation/FAA, and sent via electronic mail to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to 
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management 
and Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, 
DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Palmisano by email at: 
Joseph.Palmisano@faa.gov; phone: 202-267-1638.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for FAA's performance; (b) the 
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to enhance the 
quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (d) 
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of 
the collected information. The agency will summarize and/or include 
your comments in the request for MB's clearance of this information 
collection.
    OMB Control Number: 2120-0552.
    Title: Suspected Unapproved Parts Report.
    Form Numbers: FAA Form 8120-1.
    Type of Review: Renewal of an information collection.
    Background: The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment 
period soliciting comments on the following collection of information 
was published on February 19, 2019 (84 FR 4892). The information 
collected on the FAA Form 8120-11 is reported voluntarily by

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manufacturers, repair stations, aircraft owner/operators, air carriers, 
and the general public who wish to report suspected unapproved parts to 
the FAA for review. The report information is collected and correlated 
by the FAA, Aviation Safety Hotline Program Office, and used to 
determine if an unapproved part investigation is warranted. When 
unapproved parts are confirmed that are likely to exist on other 
products or aircraft of the same or similar design or are being used in 
other facilities, the information is used as a basis for an aviation 
industry alert or notification. Alerts are used to inform industry of 
situations essential to the prevention of accidents, if the information 
had not been collected. The consequence to the aviation community would 
be the inability to determine whether or not unapproved parts are being 
offered for sale or use for installation on type-certificated products.
    Procedures and processes relating to the SUP program and associated 
reports are found in FAA Order 8120.16A, Suspected Unapproved Parts 
Program, and AC 21-29, Detecting and Reporting Suspected Unapproved 
Parts. When unapproved parts are identified, the FAA notifies the 
public by published Field Notifications (FN), disseminated using 
Unapproved Parts Notifications (UPN), Aviation Maintenance Alerts, 
Airworthiness Directives (AD), entry into an issue of the Service 
Difficulty Reporting Summary, a Special Airworthiness Information 
Bulletin, a display on an internet site, or direct mailing. Reporting 
of information is strictly voluntary. The information is requested from 
any individual or facility suspecting an unapproved part. Any burden is 
minimized by requesting only necessary information to warrant an 
investigation.
    Respondents: Anyone may fill out and send a Form 8120-11 into the 
FAA.
    Frequency: Whenever anyone discovers or suspects they have received 
an unapproved part.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: About 30 minutes to read and 
disposition each form.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: The FAA collects approximately 208 
forms from the public per year.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2019.
Joy Wolf,
Directives & Forms Management Officer (DMO/FMO), Aircraft Certification 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-08871 Filed 5-1-19; 8:45 am]
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