80 FR 25215 - Air Carrier Contract Maintenance Requirements; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 85 (May 4, 2015)

The FAA is correcting a final rule published on March 4, 2015 (80 FR 11537). In that rule, the FAA amended its maintenance regulations for domestic, flag, and supplemental operations, and for commuter and on-demand operations for aircraft type certificated with a passenger seating configuration of 10 seats or more (excluding any pilot seat). The FAA originally proposed to make the effective date of the rule one year after its publication date to give affected operators time to come into compliance with the new requirements, and to allow the FAA time to review information submitted by the operators under the rule. However, in the final rule, the FAA inadvertently overlooked the proposed one-year compliance time, and included an effective date of 60 days after publication. This document corrects the effective date of that document.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 85 (Monday, May 4, 2015)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 25215-25216]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-10423]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Parts 121 and 135

[Docket No. FAA-2011-1136; Amdt. Nos. 121-371A and 135-132A]
RIN 2120-AJ33


Air Carrier Contract Maintenance Requirements; Correction

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting a final rule published on March 4, 2015 
(80 FR 11537). In that rule, the FAA amended its maintenance 
regulations for domestic, flag, and supplemental operations, and for 
commuter and on-demand operations for aircraft type certificated with a 
passenger seating configuration of 10 seats or more (excluding any 
pilot seat). The FAA originally proposed to make the effective date of 
the rule one year after its publication date to give affected operators 
time to come into compliance with the new requirements, and to allow 
the FAA time to review information submitted by the operators under the 
rule. However, in the final rule, the FAA inadvertently overlooked the 
proposed one-year compliance time, and included an effective date of 60 
days after publication. This document corrects the effective date of 
that document.

DATES: This correction is effective on May 4, 2015. The effective date 
of the final rule published March 4, 2015 (80 FR 11537), is corrected 
to March 4, 2016.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical questions concerning this action, contact Wende T. 
DiMuro, AFS-330, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-1685; email 
[email protected].
    For legal questions concerning this action, contact Edmund Averman, 
AGC-200, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3147, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 4, 2015, the FAA published a final rule entitled, ``Air 
Carrier Contract Maintenance Requirements'' (80 FR 11537).
    In that final rule, the FAA revised its maintenance regulations for 
domestic, flag, and supplemental operations, and for commuter and on-
demand operations for aircraft type certificated with a passenger 
seating configuration of 10 seats or more (excluding any pilot seat). 
The new rules require affected air carriers and operators to develop 
policies, procedures, methods, and instructions for performing contract 
maintenance that are acceptable to the FAA, and to include them in 
their maintenance manuals. The rules also require the air carriers and 
operators to provide a list to the FAA of all persons with whom they 
contract their maintenance, which also must include the physical 
address where the work will be carried out and a description of the 
type of work that is to be carried out at each location.
    In the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) (77 FR 67584; Nov. 13, 
2012), the FAA proposed to make the effective date one year after the 
publication of the final rule. The stated reason for this was that the 
agency recognized that the affected operators would need time to fully 
develop the policies, procedures, methods, and instructions for 
contract maintenance and to provide them in an acceptable format to the 
FAA. We also noted that operators would need time to prepare the list 
with the required information of their contract maintenance providers 
and to provide them in an acceptable format to their Certificate 
Holding District Offices (77 FR 67587). The FAA also noted that it 
would need time to review the information submitted by the operators. 
In publishing the final rule, the FAA inadvertently overlooked this 
proposed one-year compliance time, and included an effective date of 60 
days after publication. This document corrects that oversight so that 
the effective date is one year after the publication of the final rule, 
or March 4, 2016.

Correction

    In FR Doc. 2015-04179, beginning on page 11537 in the Federal 
Register of March 4, 2015, make the following corrections:

Correction

    1. On page 11537, in the second column, in the paragraph entitled 
``DATES:'', correct ``May 4, 2015'' to read ``March 4, 2016.''

    Issued under authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 106(f) in 
Washington, DC, on April 29, 2015.
John Barbagallo,
Acting Director, Flight Standards Office.
[FR Doc. 2015-10423 Filed 5-1-15; 8:45 am]
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