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Federal Register :: Temporary Extension of Time Allowed for Certain Training and Testing
Temporary Extension of Time Allowed for Certain Training and Testing
This action is effective October 1, 2001.
Docket No. FAA-2001-10797
SFAR 93
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/01-25724 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/01-25724
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This action extends the time allowed to meet certain qualification requirements. The action is being taken because the affected persons may not have been able to timely fulfill requirements due to the circumstances in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The action will temporarily extend the time allowed to complete the requirements needed to remain qualified or to become qualified to perform certain functions.
Kent Stephens, Air Transportation Division, Flight Standards Service, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-9518.
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In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against four U.S. commercial aircraft resulting in the tragic loss of human life at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and southwest Pennsylvania, the U.S. airline transportation system was severely hampered in conducting normal operations.
Part 121 and 135 check airmen (simulator), part 121 and 135 flight instructors (simulator), part 121 aircraft dispatchers and part 142 training center instructors are required to successfully complete certain qualification requirements, inflight line observation programs, or operating familiarization, as part of their periodic qualifications. The FAA realizes that due to the critical circumstances and disruption of airline operations, it may have been impossible for some of these persons who needed to complete the necessary requirements during the month of September to do so. Accordingly, the FAA is issuing this SFAR to allow those persons additional time to complete the inflight requirements.
This action will not adversely affect aviation safety. It will only allow certain individuals, who do not directly operate the aircraft, additional time to complete the inflight requirements. This one-time 60-day extension does not change the 12-calendar month requirement for aircraft dispatchers or the anniversary month for check airmen, flight instructors, or training center instructors. Therefore, if you were due to complete one of the specified requirements in September 2000 you will be due again to meet that requirement in September 2002, regardless of this extension for 2001.
Certain applicants for a certificate or rating under parts 61 must pass a required knowledge test within the 24-calendar-month period preceding the month the applicant completes the practical test, if a knowledge test is required. This action extends the validity of those aeronautical knowledge test results with an expiration date of September 30, 2001 to November 30, 2001.
Because the circumstances described herein warrant immediate action, the Administrator finds that notice and public comment under 5 U.S.C. 553(b) are impracticable and contrary to the public interest. Further, the Administrator finds that the urgent need for this relief is good cause under 5 U.S.C. 553(d) for making this rule effective upon publication.
In keeping with U.S. obligations under the Convention on International Civil Aviation, it is FAA policy to comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices to the maximum extend practicable. The FAA determined that there are no ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices that relate to this SFAR.
Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, directs the FAA to assess both the costs and benefits of a regulatory change. We are not allowed to propose or adopt a regulation unless we make a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended regulation justify its costs. This rulemaking action is not a significant regulatory action under section 3(f) of Executive order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review. The Office of Management and Budget ha not review it under that Order. It is not significant under the Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulatory Policies and Procedures. The FAA expects the economic impact of this rule to be so minimal that a full Regulatory Evaluation under paragraph 10e of the regulatory policies and procedures of DOT is unnecessary.
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980, 5 U.S.C. 601-612, directs the FAA to fit regulatory requirements to the scale of the business, organizations, Start Printed Page 52279and governmental jurisdictions subject to the regulation. We are required to determine whether a proposed or final action will have a “significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities” as defined in the Act. If we find that the action will have a significant impact, we must do a “regulatory flexibility analysis.”
This final rule temporarily extends the time certain training and testing requirements must be completed. Its economic impact is minimal. Therefore, we certify that this action will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
The Trade Agreement Act of 1979 prohibits Federal agencies from engaging in any standards or related activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States. Legitimate domestic objectives, such as safety, are not considered unnecessary obstacles. The statute also requires consideration of international standards and where appropriate, that they be the basis for U.S. standards. The FAA has assessed the potential effect of this rulemaking and has determined that it will not have an effect on any trade-sensitive activity.
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (the Act), enacted as Pub. L. 104-4 on March 22, 1995, is intended, among other things, to curb the practice of imposing unfunded Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal governments. Title II of the Act requires each Federal agency to prepare a written statement assessing the effects of any Federal mandate in a proposed or final agency rule that may result in a $100 million or more expenditure (adjusted annually for inflation) in any one year by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector; such a mandate is deemed to be a “significant regulatory action.”
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 41706, 44113, 44701-44702, 44705, 44705, 44709, 44711-44713, 44715-44717, 44722.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113m, 40119, 44101, 44701-44703, 44705, 44707, 44709-44711, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.
6. Add Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) No. 93 to parts 61, 63, 121, 135, and 142 to read as follows:
3. Extension of Time to Fulfill Certain Qualification Requirements. Persons identified in paragraph 1 of this SFAR who had until the end of September 2001 to complete the specified qualification requirements in September 2001 will be deemed to have completed those requirements in September 2001 Start Printed Page 52280provided they satisfactorily complete those requirements by November 30, 2001. For those persons identified in paragraph 1, who are qualifying for the first time to be a check airmen (simulator), flight instructor (simulator), aircraft dispatcher, or training center instructor, they must fulfill the applicable qualification requirements before they may serve as a check airmen (simulator), flight instructor (simulator), aircraft dispatcher, or training center instructor, as appropriate. This extension does not change the 12-calendar-month requirement for aircraft dispatchers or the anniversary month for check airmen, flight instructors and training center instructors. Therefore, if you were due for qualification in September 2001 you will be due for qualification September 2002, regardless of this extension for 2001.
[FR Doc. 01-25724 Filed 10-9-01; 4:16 am]