Document ID: FAA-2019-0228-0002
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Operations Specifications, Part 129 Application
Posted Date: 2019-10-11T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 198 (Friday, October 11, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54943-54944]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22330]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2019-0228]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; 
Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Operations 
Specifications, Part 129 Application

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 a previously approved 
information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 
comment period soliciting comments on the following collection of 
information was published on April 3, 2019. There were no comments. The 
FAA assesses the information collected and issues operations 
specifications to foreign air carriers. These operations specifications 
assure the foreign air carrier's ability to navigate and communicate 
safely within the U.S. National Airspace System. The FAA, based on 
additional data analysis, has amended the number of respondents and 
burden to include that on an existing operators. An existing operator 
is any operator who has already received their initial set of 
operations specifications.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by November 12, 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: Danuta Pronczuk by email at: 
danuta.pronczuk@faa.gov; phone: 202-267-0923.

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 OMB's clearance of this information 
collection.
    OMB Control Number: 2120-0749.
    Title: Operations Specifications, Part 129 Application.
    Form Numbers: There are no FAA forms associated with this 
collection.
    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 April 3, 2019 (84 FR 13095). The final rule published 
in 2013, clarified and standardized the rules for applications by 
foreign air carriers and foreign persons for operations specifications 
issued under 14 CFR part 129 and established standards for amendment, 
suspension and termination of those operations specifications. The 
final rule also applied to foreign air carriers and foreign persons 
operating U.S.-registered aircraft in common carriage solely outside 
the United States. This

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action was necessary to update the process for issuing operations 
specifications, and it established a regulatory basis for current 
practices, such as amending, terminating, and suspending operations 
specifications.
    Respondents: Approximately 28 new applicants and 467 existing 
foreign air carriers and foreign persons annually.
    Frequency: Information is collected on occasion.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 10 Hours for new applicants. 
One to ten hours for existing applicants.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 280 hours for new applicants and 467 
to 4670 hours for existing applicants.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2019.
Robert C. Carty,
Deputy Executive Director, Flight Standards Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-22330 Filed 10-10-19; 8:45 am]
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