81_FR_61317 81 FR 61145 - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Fifth Meeting

81 FR 61145 - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Fifth Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 172 (September 6, 2016)

Page Range61145-61146
FR Document2016-21357

This notice announces the fifth meeting of the Advisory Committee on Accessible Air Transportation (ACCESS Advisory Committee).

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 172 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 61145-61146]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21357]


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 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

14 CFR Part 382

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2015-0246]
RIN 2105-AE12


Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: 
Negotiated Rulemaking Committee Fifth Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of fifth public meeting of advisory committee.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the fifth meeting of the Advisory 
Committee on Accessible Air Transportation (ACCESS Advisory Committee).

DATES: The fifth meeting of the ACCESS Advisory Committee will be held 
on September 21-23, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City, 
1250 Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202. Attendance is open to the 
public up to the room's capacity of 150 attendees. Since space is 
limited, any member of the general public who plans to attend this 
meeting must notify the registration contact identified below no later 
than September 14, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To register to attend the meeting, 
please contact Kyle Ilgenfritz ([email protected]; 703-442-4575 
extension 128). For other information, please contact Livaughn Chapman 
or Vinh Nguyen, Office of the Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, 
U.S. Department of Transportation, by email at [email protected] 
or [email protected] or by telephone at 202-366-9342.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Fifth Public Meeting of the ACCESS Committee

    The fifth meeting of the ACCESS Advisory Committee will be held on 
September 21-23, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight 
Time. The meeting will be held at the Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City, 1250 
Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202. At the meeting, the ACCESS Advisory 
Committee will continue to address whether to require accessible 
inflight entertainment (IFE) and strengthen accessibility requirements 
for other in-flight communications, whether to require an accessible 
lavatory on new single-aisle aircraft over a certain size, and whether 
to amend the definition of ``service animals'' that may accompany 
passengers with a disability on a flight. We expect to negotiate on 
proposals to amend the Department's disability regulation regarding one 
or more of these issues. Prior to the meeting, the agenda will be 
available on the ACCESS Advisory Committee's Web site, 
www.transportation.gov/access-advisory-committee. Information on how to 
access advisory committee documents via the FDMC is contained in 
Section III, below.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Attendance will be limited 
by the size of the meeting room (maximum 150 attendees). Because space 
is limited, we ask that any member of the public who plans to attend 
the meeting notify the registration contact, Kyle Ilgenfritz 
([email protected]; 703-442-4575 extension 128) at Linkvisum, 
no later than September 14, 2016. At the discretion of the facilitator 
and the Committee and time permitting, members of the public are 
invited to contribute to the discussion and provide oral comments.

II. Submitting Written Comments

    Members of the public may submit written comments on the topics to 
be considered during the meeting by September 15, 2016, to FDMC, Docket 
Number DOT-OST-2015-0246. You may submit your comments and material 
online or by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but please use only one of 
these means. DOT recommends that you include your name and a mailing 
address, an email address, or a phone number in the body of your 
document so that DOT can contact you if there are questions regarding 
your submission.
    To submit your comment online, go to http://www.regulations.gov, 
put the docket number, DOT-OST-2015-0246, in the keyword box, and click 
``Search.'' When the new screen appears, click on the ``Comment Now!'' 
button and type your comment into the text box on the following screen. 
Choose whether you are submitting your comment as an individual or on 
behalf of a third party and then submit. If you submit your comments by 
mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 
8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing.

III. Viewing Comments and Documents

    To view comments and any documents mentioned in this preamble as 
being available in the docket, go to www.regulations.gov. Enter the 
docket number, DOT-OST-2015-0246, in the keyword box, and click 
``Search.'' Next, click the link to ``Open Docket Folder'' and choose 
the document to review. If you do not have access to the Internet, you 
may view the docket online by visiting the Docket Management Facility 
in Room W12-140 on the ground floor of the DOT West Building, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 
E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

IV. ACCESS Advisory Committee Charter

    The ACCESS Advisory Committee is established by charter in 
accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. 
App. 2. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx approved the ACCESS 
Advisory Committee charter on April 6, 2016. The committee's charter 
sets forth policies for the operation of the advisory committee and is 
available on the Department's Web site at www.transportation.gov/office-general-counsel/negotiated-regulations/charter.

V. Privacy Act

    In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 
public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT posts these 
comments, without edit, including any personal information the 
commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the system 
of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 
www.dot.gov/privacy.

VI. Future Committee Meeting

    DOT anticipates that the ACCESS Advisory Committee will have one 
additional three-day meeting in

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Washington, DC. The sixth and final meeting is tentatively scheduled 
for October 12-14. Notices of all future meetings will be published in 
the Federal Register at least 15 calendar days prior to each meeting.
    Notice of this meeting is being provided in accordance with the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act and the General Services Administration 
regulations covering management of Federal advisory committees. See 41 
CFR part 102-3. Issued under the authority of delegation in 49 CFR 
1.27(n).

    Dated: August 29, 2016.
Molly J. Moran,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2016-21357 Filed 9-2-16; 8:45 am]
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61145 Proposed Rules Federal Register Vol. 81, No. 172 Tuesday, September 6, 2016 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER September 21–23, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. When the new screen appears, click on contains notices to the public of the proposed to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. The the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ button and type issuance of rules and regulations. The meeting will be held at the Ritz Carlton, your comment into the text box on the purpose of these notices is to give interested Pentagon City, 1250 Hayes Street, following screen. Choose whether you persons an opportunity to participate in the Arlington, VA 22202. At the meeting, are submitting your comment as an rule making prior to the adoption of the final the ACCESS Advisory Committee will individual or on behalf of a third party rules. continue to address whether to require and then submit. If you submit your accessible inflight entertainment (IFE) comments by mail or hand delivery, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and strengthen accessibility submit them in an unbound format, no requirements for other in-flight larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for Office of the Secretary communications, whether to require an copying and electronic filing. accessible lavatory on new single-aisle III. Viewing Comments and Documents 14 CFR Part 382 aircraft over a certain size, and whether to amend the definition of ‘‘service To view comments and any [Docket No. DOT–OST–2015–0246] documents mentioned in this preamble animals’’ that may accompany RIN 2105–AE12 passengers with a disability on a flight. as being available in the docket, go to We expect to negotiate on proposals to www.regulations.gov. Enter the docket Nondiscrimination on the Basis of amend the Department’s disability number, DOT–OST–2015–0246, in the Disability in Air Travel: Negotiated regulation regarding one or more of keyword box, and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, Rulemaking Committee Fifth Meeting these issues. Prior to the meeting, the click the link to ‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ agenda will be available on the ACCESS and choose the document to review. If AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, you do not have access to the Internet, Department of Transportation. Advisory Committee’s Web site, www.transportation.gov/access- you may view the docket online by ACTION: Notice of fifth public meeting of visiting the Docket Management Facility advisory-committee. Information on advisory committee. how to access advisory committee in Room W12–140 on the ground floor documents via the FDMC is contained of the DOT West Building, 1200 New SUMMARY: This notice announces the Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC fifth meeting of the Advisory Committee in Section III, below. The meeting will be open to the 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., E.T., on Accessible Air Transportation Monday through Friday, except Federal (ACCESS Advisory Committee). public. Attendance will be limited by the size of the meeting room (maximum holidays. DATES: The fifth meeting of the ACCESS 150 attendees). Because space is limited, IV. ACCESS Advisory Committee Advisory Committee will be held on we ask that any member of the public Charter September 21–23, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 who plans to attend the meeting notify The ACCESS Advisory Committee is p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. the registration contact, Kyle Ilgenfritz established by charter in accordance ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at (kilgenfritz@linkvisum.com; 703–442– the Ritz Carlton, Pentagon City, 1250 with the Federal Advisory Committee 4575 extension 128) at Linkvisum, no Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2. Secretary Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202. later than September 14, 2016. At the Attendance is open to the public up to of Transportation Anthony Foxx discretion of the facilitator and the approved the ACCESS Advisory the room’s capacity of 150 attendees. Committee and time permitting, Since space is limited, any member of Committee charter on April 6, 2016. The members of the public are invited to committee’s charter sets forth policies the general public who plans to attend contribute to the discussion and provide this meeting must notify the registration for the operation of the advisory oral comments. committee and is available on the contact identified below no later than September 14, 2016. II. Submitting Written Comments Department’s Web site at www.transportation.gov/office-general- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To Members of the public may submit counsel/negotiated-regulations/charter. register to attend the meeting, please written comments on the topics to be contact Kyle Ilgenfritz (kilgenfritz@ considered during the meeting by V. Privacy Act linkvisum.com; 703–442–4575 September 15, 2016, to FDMC, Docket In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), extension 128). For other information, Number DOT–OST–2015–0246. You DOT solicits comments from the public please contact Livaughn Chapman or may submit your comments and to better inform its rulemaking process. Vinh Nguyen, Office of the Aviation material online or by fax, mail, or hand DOT posts these comments, without Enforcement and Proceedings, U.S. delivery, but please use only one of edit, including any personal information Department of Transportation, by email these means. DOT recommends that you the commenter provides, to at livaughn.chapman@dot.gov or include your name and a mailing sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with PROPOSALS www.regulations.gov, as described in vinh.nguyen@dot.gov or by telephone at address, an email address, or a phone the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 202–366–9342. number in the body of your document 14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: so that DOT can contact you if there are www.dot.gov/privacy. questions regarding your submission. I. 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61146 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 172 / Tuesday, September 6, 2016 / Proposed Rules Washington, DC. The sixth and final Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) any substance or mixture of meeting is tentatively scheduled for 504–7923. substances’’ 3 which the Commission October 12–14. Notices of all future Instructions: All submissions received finds meets a series of statutory meetings will be published in the must include the agency name and requirements. Under the FHSA, the Federal Register at least 15 calendar docket number. All comments received Commission prohibits, as banned days prior to each meeting. may be posted without change, hazardous substances, the introduction Notice of this meeting is being including any personal identifiers, into interstate commerce of all provided in accordance with the Federal contact information, or other personal Fireworks devices intended to produce Advisory Committee Act and the information provided, to: http:// audible effects (including but not limited to General Services Administration www.regulations.gov. Do not submit cherry bombs, M–80 salutes, silver salutes, regulations covering management of confidential business information, trade and other large firecrackers, aerial bombs, Federal advisory committees. See 41 secret information, or other sensitive or and other fireworks designed to produce CFR part 102–3. Issued under the protected information that you do not audible effects, and including kits and authority of delegation in 49 CFR want to be available to the public. If components intended to produce such 1.27(n). furnished at all, such information fireworks) if the audible effect is produced by should be submitted in writing by mail/ a charge of more than 2 grains of pyrotechnic Dated: August 29, 2016. hand delivery/courier. composition.4 Molly J. Moran, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Acting General Counsel. The goal of this ban was to remove DeWane Ray, Deputy Executive Director [FR Doc. 2016–21357 Filed 9–2–16; 8:45 am] for Safety Operations, U.S. Consumer from consumer use the kinds of devices BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P Product Safety Commission, 4330 East that had, as noted in the 1970 Food and West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; Drug Administration (FDA) rulemaking telephone: (301)–504–7547; email: jray@ that imposed the ban, ‘‘caused eight CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY cpsc.gov. fatalities (six were teenage or younger) COMMISSION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the and a large number of serious injuries Federal Hazardous Substances Act ranging from puncture wounds to 16 CFR Part 1500 (FHSA),1 the Consumer Product Safety broken bones and shattered hands.’’ 5 [Docket No. CPSC–2016–0020] Commission (CPSC or Commission) has The Commission’s rules do not banned all ‘‘[f]ireworks devices further define or describe ‘‘devices Statement of Policy on the intended to produce audible effects . . . intended to produce audible effects,’’ Commission’s Interpretation of Intent if the audible effect is produced by a nor do they define how the Commission To Produce Audible Effects Within the charge of more than 2 grains of will determine whether a product falls Meaning of the Commission’s pyrotechnic composition.’’ 2 Pursuant to under this category. The Manual directs Fireworks Regulations Under the staff’s Consumer Fireworks Testing Commission staff to evaluate the relative Federal Hazardous Substances Act Manual (Manual), Commission staff intensity of any sound produced by a AGENCY: U.S. Consumer Product Safety determine whether a fireworks device firework device to determine whether Commission. was intended to produce an audible such sound is an intended effect or effect by evaluating the relative merely incidental to the operation of the ACTION: Proposed interpretive rule. intensity of the sound produced by such device. Any device in the former SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety device (the Sound Test). category must comply with the two Commission (CPSC) has approved a Through this publication, the grain limitation stated in the regulation. Proposed Statement of Policy regarding Commission proposes to interpret the Since the adoption of the Sound Test, the Commission’s interpretation of the ‘‘audible effects’’ provision such that there have been many developments in phrase ‘‘intended to produce audible staff will consider the presence of the fireworks market, including the use effects’’ that appears in the metallic powder less than 100 mesh in of fine-mesh metallic fuels to intensify Commission’s fireworks regulations. particle size within the burst (or break) device operation. Voluntary standards DATES: Submit comments by October 6, charge of a fireworks device to mean the bodies, including the APA, have 2016. device is intended to produce an addressed the use of metallic fuels audible effect, consistent with the directly.6 ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, American Pyrotechnic Association identified by Docket No. CPSC–2016– Under the APA standard, ‘‘any burst Standard 87–1 definition. 0020 by any of the following methods: The Commission notes that this [or break] charge containing metallic Electronic Submissions: Submit powder (such as magnalium or interpretation is not a binding rule and electronic comments to the Federal aluminum) less than 100 mesh in would not change any person’s rights, eRulemaking Portal at: http:// particle size, is considered to be duties, or obligations under the FHSA or www.regulations.gov. Follow the intended to produce an audible effect, any other Act administered by the instructions for submitting comments. and is limited to 130 mg [the equivalent Commission. The Commission invites The Commission does not accept of two grains] in [consumer] comment on this proposed comments submitted by electronic mail fireworks.’’ 7 This provides a bright-line interpretation. (email), except through regulations.gov. The Commission encourages you to A. Background sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with PROPOSALS 3 15 U.S.C. 1262(a)(1). submit electronic comments by using The FHSA empowers the Consumer 4 16 CFR 1500.17(a)(3). This rule provides an the Federal eRulemaking Portal, as Product Safety Commission (CPSC or exception for devices intended and sold for bona described above. fide agricultural use. Id. at § 1500.17(a)(3)(i)–(ii). Commission) to, ‘‘by regulation[,] 5 Fireworks Devices, 35 FR 7415 (May 13, 1970). Written Submissions: Submit written declare to be a hazardous substance . . . 6 Amer. Pyrotechnics Assoc., APA Standard 87– comments by mail/hand delivery/ 1: Standard for Construction and Approval for courier to: Office of the Secretary, 1 Pub. L. 86–613, 74 Stat. 372 (July 12, 1960) Transportation of Fireworks, Novelties, and Consumer Product Safety Commission, (codified as amended at 15 U.S.C. 1261–78). Theatrical Pyrotechnics § 2.5 (2001). Room 820, 4330 East-West Highway, 2 16 CFR 1500.17(a)(3). 7 Id. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:17 Sep 02, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\06SEP1.SGM 06SEP1


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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionProposed Rules
ActionNotice of fifth public meeting of advisory committee.
DatesThe fifth meeting of the ACCESS Advisory Committee will be held on September 21-23, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.
ContactTo register to attend the meeting, please contact Kyle Ilgenfritz ([email protected]; 703-442-4575 extension 128). For other information, please contact Livaughn Chapman or Vinh Nguyen, Office of the Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, U.S. Department of Transportation, by email at [email protected] or [email protected] or by telephone at 202-366-9342.
FR Citation81 FR 61145 
RIN Number2105-AE12
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