83 FR 17221 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collections to OMB; Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information Collections: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 75 (April 18, 2018)

Page Range		17221-17222
FR Document		2018-08107

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Department of Transportation's (Department or DOT) intention to renew an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number for certain information collections. The collections involve requirements for carriers to provide a mechanism on their websites for passengers to provide online notification of their requests for disability accommodation services and for carriers to ensure that a disclaimer is activated when a user clicks a link on a primary website to embedded third-party software or an external website. The disclaimer must inform the user that the software/website in not within the carrier's control and may not follow the same accessibility policies.

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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2018)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2011-0177]


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collections to OMB; 
Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information 
Collections: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation 
(Department or DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces the Department of Transportation's (Department or DOT) 
intention to renew an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control 
number for certain information collections. The collections involve 
requirements for carriers to provide a mechanism on their websites for 
passengers to provide online notification of their requests for 
disability accommodation services and for carriers to ensure that a 
disclaimer is activated when a user clicks a link on a primary website 
to embedded third-party software or an external website. The disclaimer 
must inform the user that the software/website in not within the 
carrier's control and may not follow the same accessibility policies.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by June 18, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket No. DOT-OST-
2011-0177 through one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except on Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John C. Wood, Office of the General 
Counsel, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (Voice), 
202-366-7152 (Fax), or [email protected] (Email). Arrangements to 
receive this document in an alternative format may be made by 
contacting the above-named individual.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control Number: 2105-0571.
    Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel.
    Type of Review: Renewal of information collections.
    Background: This notice covers two information collection 
requirements in the Department's Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) 
implementing regulation, 14 CFR part 382 (part 382), Nondiscrimination 
on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel. Specifically, pursuant to 
section 382.43(d), covered carriers must provide an online mechanism 
for passengers to request disability accommodation services (e.g., 
enplaning/deplaning assistance, deaf/hard of hearing communication 
assistance, escort to service animal relief area, etc.) for a 
particular flight. Pursuant to section 382.43(e), covered carriers must 
also ensure that when a user activates a link on a carrier's primary 
website to embedded third-party software or to an external website, a 
disclaimer is displayed notifying the user that the application or 
website may not be accessible. These requirements became effective on 
December 12, 2015, and December 12, 2016, respectively. Covered 
carriers are U.S. and foreign air carriers that operate at least one 
aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more than 60 passengers 
and own or control a primary website that markets passenger air 
transportation or a tour, or tour component that must be purchased with 
air transportation, to the general public in the United States.\1\
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    \1\ While there are approximately 190 U.S. and foreign air 
carriers that conduct passenger-carrying service to, from, or in the 
United States with at least one aircraft having a designed seating 
capacity of more than 60 seats, not all of those carriers have a 
primary website that markets passenger air transportation to the 
general public in the U.S. The Department estimates that 
approximately 165 of those 190 carriers are subject to the 
Department's web-accessibility requirements as they operate such 
aircraft and have a primary website that markets to U.S. consumers.
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    The title, a description of the information collection and 
respondents, and the periodic reporting burden are set forth below for 
each of the information collections:
    1. Requirement to make a disability accommodation service request 
function available on the primary website. (14 CFR 382.43(d)).
    Each covered carrier must provide a mechanism on its website for 
passengers to request a disability accommodation service for a future 
flight and provide advance notice of their request. Carriers may, but 
need not, require passengers to include contact information on the form 
in order to follow-up and request more specific information about the 
passengers' accommodation needs. Carriers may also use the aggregate 
data from the online service requests to understand and better plan for 
the volume and types of service requests they receive across time 
periods and routes, but also are not required to do so. While the 
content and design of the online service request form is up to the 
carriers, the Department anticipates that each covered U.S. and foreign 
carrier that markets scheduled air transportation to the general public 
in the United States would incur initial costs associated with 
developing and reviewing a design and implementation plan for the 
request form, developing, coding, and integrating the form into the 
website, as well as testing, debugging, and connecting the form with a 
backend database to store the information. The final regulatory 
analysis (FRA) for the final rule entitled Nondiscrimination on the 
Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Accessibility of Websites and 
Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airports estimated that it will take an 
average of 32 labor hours per carrier to develop, implement, integrate, 
connect, and test the online request form. Initial costs are reduced 
for carriers that rely on a request form developed by another entity. 
There are no recordkeeping or reporting requirements. However, carriers 
should use the service request information to facilitate appropriate, 
timely assistance to their passengers.
    Respondents: Certificated U.S. and foreign air carriers operating 
to, from, and within the United States that operate at least one 
aircraft having a seating capacity of more than 60 passengers and own 
or control a primary website that markets air transportation to the 
general public in the U.S.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of 
which the Department expects all to have achieved compliance with the 
requirement in a prior year. The

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Department estimates that each year there will be 3 new respondent 
carriers.
    Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 0 hours per carrier 
compliant in a prior year, unless the carrier voluntarily elects to 
modify or improve its form, and 32 hours per carrier creating an online 
request form.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 96 hours. This estimate was 
calculated by multiplying the total number of labor hours per year that 
a carrier is estimated to spend to develop, implement, integrate, 
connect, and test the online request form (32) by the estimated number 
of new respondent carriers each year (3).
    Frequency: One-time requirement.
    2. Requirement to provide a disclaimer notice to users when 
clicking a link on a primary website to embedded third-party software 
or an external website. (14 CFR 382.43(e)).
    Carriers must provide a disclaimer notice for each link on their 
primary website that enables a user to access software or an external 
website that is not in the carrier's control. The disclaimer notice 
must be activated the first time a user clicks the link and must notify 
the user that the application/website is not within the carrier's 
control and may not follow the same accessibility policies as the 
primary website. The Department anticipates that each covered U.S. and 
foreign carrier will incur costs associated with identifying all links 
on their websites that may require a disclaimer such as developing and 
reviewing the design and language for the disclaimer notice, as well as 
developing, testing, and deploying the code to the appropriate web 
pages.
    The incremental labor hours associated with providing the required 
disclaimer may vary depending on the number of links on the website to 
which this requirement applies. The FRA estimated that it will take an 
average of 6 labor hours per carrier to identify the links and then 
develop, test, and deploy the disclaimer notice on the website. We also 
estimate that it will take less than 30 minutes per year for a carrier 
to associate the notice with any new links to external websites or 
third-party software added to their websites.
    Respondents: Certificated U.S. and foreign air carriers operating 
to, from, and within the United States that operate at least one 
aircraft having a seating capacity of more than 60 passengers and own 
or control a primary website that markets air transportation to the 
general public in the U.S.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of 
which the Department expects all to have achieved compliance with the 
requirement in a prior year. The Department estimates that each year 
there will be 3 new respondent carriers.
    Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 6 hours for carriers to 
create, test, and deploy the disclaimer. 30 minutes for carriers 
compliant in prior years to associate the notice with new links and 
third-party software.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 100.5 hours. This estimate was 
calculated by multiplying the total number of labor hours per year that 
a carrier is estimated to spend to develop, test, and deploy the online 
request form (6) by the estimated number of new respondent carriers 
each year (3). To that total we added the product of the number of 
hours that we estimated carriers may spend associating the notice with 
new weblinks (.5 hours) and the number of carriers that are expected to 
have achieved compliance in a prior year (165).
    Frequency: One-time and recurrent requirements.
    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 the Department's 
performance; (b) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the 
Department 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.

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2018.
Blane A. Workie,
Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings.
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admissible under any final decision • Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket The title, a description of the
must indicate on the form HS–7 Management Facility, U.S. Department information collection and respondents,
accompanying entry the appropriate of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey and the periodic reporting burden are
vehicle eligibility number indicating Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12– set forth below for each of the
that the vehicle is eligible for entry. 140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 information collections:
VCP–59, the vehicle eligibility number a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 1. Requirement to make a disability
assigned to vehicles admissible under Friday, except on Federal holidays. accommodation service request function
the original decision, remains as the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John available on the primary website. (14
eligibility number for vehicles C. Wood, Office of the General Counsel, CFR 382.43(d)).
admissible under the decision as Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department Each covered carrier must provide a
corrected in this notice. of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey mechanism on its website for passengers
to request a disability accommodation
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30118, 30120: Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
service for a future flight and provide
delegations of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 202–366–9342 (Voice), 202–366–7152
501.8. advance notice of their request. Carriers
(Fax), or john.wood@dot.gov (Email).
may, but need not, require passengers to
Claudia W. Covell, Arrangements to receive this document
include contact information on the form
in an alternative format may be made by
Acting Director, Office of Vehicle Safety in order to follow-up and request more
Compliance. contacting the above-named individual.
specific information about the
[FR Doc. 2018–08060 Filed 4–17–18; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: passengers’ accommodation needs.
BILLING CODE 4910–59–P
OMB Control Number: 2105–0571. Carriers may also use the aggregate data
Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis from the online service requests to
of Disability in Air Travel. understand and better plan for the
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Type of Review: Renewal of volume and types of service requests
information collections. they receive across time periods and
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0177] Background: This notice covers two routes, but also are not required to do
Notice of Submission of Proposed information collection requirements in so. While the content and design of the
Information Collections to OMB; the Department’s Air Carrier Access Act online service request form is up to the
Agency Request for Renewal of (ACAA) implementing regulation, 14 carriers, the Department anticipates that
Previously Approved Information CFR part 382 (part 382), each covered U.S. and foreign carrier
Collections: Nondiscrimination on the Nondiscrimination on the Basis of that markets scheduled air
Basis of Disability in Air Travel Disability in Air Travel. Specifically, transportation to the general public in
pursuant to section 382.43(d), covered the United States would incur initial
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), carriers must provide an online costs associated with developing and
Department of Transportation mechanism for passengers to request reviewing a design and implementation
(Department or DOT). disability accommodation services (e.g., plan for the request form, developing,
ACTION: Notice and request for enplaning/deplaning assistance, deaf/ coding, and integrating the form into the
comments. hard of hearing communication website, as well as testing, debugging,
assistance, escort to service animal relief and connecting the form with a backend
SUMMARY: In accordance with the area, etc.) for a particular flight. database to store the information. The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this Pursuant to section 382.43(e), covered final regulatory analysis (FRA) for the
notice announces the Department of carriers must also ensure that when a final rule entitled Nondiscrimination on
Transportation’s (Department or DOT) user activates a link on a carrier’s the Basis of Disability in Air Travel:
intention to renew an Office of primary website to embedded third- Accessibility of Websites and
Management and Budget (OMB) control party software or to an external website, Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airports
number for certain information a disclaimer is displayed notifying the estimated that it will take an average of
collections. The collections involve user that the application or website may 32 labor hours per carrier to develop,
requirements for carriers to provide a not be accessible. These requirements implement, integrate, connect, and test
mechanism on their websites for became effective on December 12, 2015, the online request form. Initial costs are
passengers to provide online and December 12, 2016, respectively. reduced for carriers that rely on a
notification of their requests for Covered carriers are U.S. and foreign air request form developed by another
disability accommodation services and carriers that operate at least one aircraft entity. There are no recordkeeping or
for carriers to ensure that a disclaimer having a designed seating capacity of reporting requirements. However,
is activated when a user clicks a link on more than 60 passengers and own or carriers should use the service request
a primary website to embedded third- control a primary website that markets information to facilitate appropriate,
party software or an external website. passenger air transportation or a tour, or timely assistance to their passengers.
The disclaimer must inform the user tour component that must be purchased Respondents: Certificated U.S. and
that the software/website in not within with air transportation, to the general foreign air carriers operating to, from,
the carrier’s control and may not follow public in the United States.1 and within the United States that
the same accessibility policies. operate at least one aircraft having a
DATES: Written comments should be 1 While there are approximately 190 U.S. and seating capacity of more than 60
submitted by June 18, 2018. foreign air carriers that conduct passenger-carrying passengers and own or control a
service to, from, or in the United States with at least primary website that markets air
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
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identified by Docket No. DOT–OST– more than 60 seats, not all of those carriers have transportation to the general public in
2011–0177 through one of the following a primary website that markets passenger air the U.S.
methods: transportation to the general public in the U.S. The Estimated Number of Respondents:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// Department estimates that approximately 165 of 165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of which
those 190 carriers are subject to the Department’s
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online web-accessibility requirements as they operate such
the Department expects all to have
instructions for submitting comments. aircraft and have a primary website that markets to achieved compliance with the
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. U.S. consumers. requirement in a prior year. The

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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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Action		Notice and request for comments.
Dates		Written comments should be submitted by June 18, 2018.
Contact		John C. Wood, Office of the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (Voice), 202-366-7152 (Fax), or [email protected] (Email). Arrangements to receive this document in an alternative format may be made by contacting the above-named individual.
FR Citation		83 FR 17221