83_FR_23622 83 FR 23524 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB Agency Request for Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection Request: Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport

83 FR 23524 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB Agency Request for Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection Request: Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 98 (May 21, 2018)

Page Range23524-23525
FR Document2018-10763

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Department's intention to apply to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew the previously approved information collection request (ICR) OMB No. 2105-0552, ``Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport.'' The current information collection request approved by OMB expires August 31, 2018.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 98 (Monday, May 21, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 98 (Monday, May 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23524-23525]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10763]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2010-0211]
RIN 2105-AE07


Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB 
Agency Request for Renewal of a Previously Approved Information 
Collection Request: Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving 
Animals During Air Transport

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's intention to apply to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to renew the previously approved 
information collection request (ICR) OMB No. 2105-0552, ``Reports by 
Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport.'' The 
current information collection request approved by OMB expires August 
31, 2018.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by July 20, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments (identified by Docket No. DOT-OST-
2010-0211) through one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, West 
Building Ground Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except on Federal Holidays. The telephone number is 202-366-9329.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vinh Q. Nguyen, Senior Trial Attorney, 
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 vinh.nguyen@dot.gov 
(email).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals 
During Air Transport.
    OMB Control Number: 2105-0552.
    Type of Request: Renewal of currently approved Information 
Collection Request.
    Background: The Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act 
for the 21st Century or ``AIR-21'' (Pub. L. 106-181), which was signed 
into law on April 5, 2000, includes section 710, ``Reports by Carriers 
on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport.'' This provision 
was codified as 49 U.S.C. 41721. The statute requires air carriers that 
provide scheduled passenger air transportation to submit monthly to the 
Secretary of Transportation a report on any incidents involving the 
loss, injury, or death of an animal (as defined by the Secretary of 
Transportation) during air transport provided by the air carrier.
    On August 11, 2003, DOT, through its Federal Aviation 
Administration (FAA), issued a final rule implementing section 710 of 
AIR-21.\1\ The rule required air carriers that provide scheduled 
passenger air transportation to submit a report to APHIS on any 
incident involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air 
transportation provided by the air carrier. Due to issues regarding 
whether APHIS had the

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capability to accept such information directly from the carriers, DOT 
made a technical change in the rule on February 14, 2005, to require 
air carriers to submit the required information directly to DOT's 
Aviation Consumer Protection Division (ACPD) rather than APHIS and to 
make the rule part of DOT's economic regulations.\2\
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    \1\ Reporting Directive Regarding Incidents Involving Animals 
During Air Transport, 68 FR 47798 (August 11, 2003).
    \2\ Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals 
During Air Transport, 70 FR 7392 (February 14, 2005).
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    On July 3, 2014, DOT published a final rule amending the 
requirement that air carriers file reports with DOT on the loss, 
injury, or death of animals during air transport.\3\ The rule (1) 
expanded the reporting requirement from the largest U.S. carriers 
(i.e., U.S. carriers that account for at least 1 percent of domestic 
scheduled passenger revenue) to U.S. carriers that operate scheduled 
service with at least one aircraft with a design capacity of more than 
60 seats; (2) expanded the definition of ``animal'' from only a pet in 
a family household to include all cats and dogs transported by covered 
carriers, regardless of whether the cat or dog is transported as a pet 
by its owner or as part of a commercial shipment (e.g., shipped by a 
breeder); (3) required covered carriers to file a calendar-year report 
in December, even if the carrier did not have any reportable incidents 
during the calendar year; (4) required covered carriers to provide in 
their December reports the total number of animals that were lost, 
injured, or died during air transport in the calendar year; and (5) 
required covered carriers to provide in their December reports the 
total number of animals transported in the calendar year. On August 25, 
2015, OMB approved the information collection request, ``Reports by Air 
Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport,'' through 
August 31, 2018.
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    \3\ Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals 
During Air Transport, 79 FR 37938 (July 3, 2014) (codified at 14 CFR 
part 235).
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    In order to reduce burden to covered carriers, the ACPD established 
a website and online system for filing the required reports, http://animalreport.ost.dot.gov. This system enables covered carriers to 
easily and efficiently submit their reports through the internet rather 
than sending the reports to the Department by mail or email.
    Respondents: U.S. carriers that operate scheduled passenger service 
with at least one aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more 
than 60 seats.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 32.
    Frequency: For each respondent, one information set for the month 
of December, plus one information set during some other months (1 to 
12).
    Estimated Total Burden on Respondents: (1) Monthly reports of 
incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of animals during air 
transport: 0 to 384 hours (Respondents [32] x Time to Prepare One 
Monthly Report [1 hour] x Frequency [0 to 12 per year]). (2) December 
report containing the total number of animals that were lost, injured, 
or died during air transport in the calendar year and the total number 
of animals that were transported in the calendar year: 16 hours 
(Respondents [32] x Time to Prepare One December Report [0.5 hour] x 
Frequency (1 per year)].
    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.
    All comments will become a matter of public record. All responses 
to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB 
approval.
    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 
35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.27(n).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2018, under the authority 
delegated at 49 CFR 1.27(n).
Blane A. Workie,
Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings.
[FR Doc. 2018-10763 Filed 5-18-18; 8:45 am]
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23524 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 98 / Monday, May 21, 2018 / Notices comment period and otherwise consult Estimated annual burden: During DATES: Comments on this notice must be with members of the public and affected NHTSA’s last renewal of this received by July 20, 2018. agencies concerning each proposed information collection, the agency ADDRESSES: You may submit comments collection of information. The OMB has estimated it would receive one petition (identified by Docket No. DOT–OST– promulgated regulations describing a year, with an estimated one hour of 2010–0211) through one of the what must be included in such a preparation for each petition, for a total following methods: document. Under OMB’s regulation, See of one burden hour per year. That • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 5 CFR 1320.8(d), an agency must ask for estimate remains unchanged with this www.regulations.gov. Follow the online public comment on the following: notice. instructions for submitting comments. (i) Whether the proposed collection of Number of respondents: 1. • Mail: Docket Management Facility; information is necessary for the proper Comments are invited on: Whether U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 performance of the functions of the the proposed collection of information New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, agency, including whether the is necessary for the proper performance Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590. information will have practical utility; of the functions of the Department, • Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of (ii) the accuracy of the agency’s including whether the information will Transportation, West Building Ground estimate of the burden of the proposed have practical utility; the accuracy of Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, collection of information, including the the Department’s estimate of the burden Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590, validity of the methodology and of the proposed information collection; between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday assumptions used; ways to enhance the quality, utility and through Friday, except on Federal (iii) how to enhance the quality, clarity of the information to be Holidays. The telephone number is 202– utility, and clarity of the information to collected; and ways to minimize the 366–9329. be collected; and burden of the collection of information FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (iv) how to minimize the burden of on respondents, including the use of Vinh Q. Nguyen, Senior Trial Attorney, the collection of information on those automated collection techniques or Office of the General Counsel, Office of who are to respond, including the use other forms of information technology. the Secretary, U.S. Department of of appropriate automated, electronic, All responses to this notice will be Transportation, 1200 New Jersey mechanical, or other technological summarized and included in the request Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, collection techniques or other forms of for OMB approval. 202–366–9342 (Voice), 202–366–7152 information technology, e.g., permitting Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c); delegation of (fax), or vinh.nguyen@dot.gov (email). electronic submission of responses. authority at 49 CFR 1.50 and 501.8(f). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with these Stephen A. Ridella, Title: Reports by Air Carriers on requirements, NHTSA asks for public Incidents Involving Animals During Air Director, Office of Defects Investigation. comments on the following collection of Transport. [FR Doc. 2018–10805 Filed 5–18–18; 8:45 am] OMB Control Number: 2105–0552. information: Title of Collection: Petitions for BILLING CODE 4910–59–P Type of Request: Renewal of currently Hearings on Notification and Remedy of approved Information Collection Defects. Request. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Background: The Wendell H. Ford Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information Aviation Investment and Reform Act for Office of the Secretary collection. the 21st Century or ‘‘AIR–21’’ (Pub. L. OMB Control Number: 2127–0039. [Docket No. DOT–OST–2010–0211] 106–181), which was signed into law on Affected Public: Businesses or others RIN 2105–AE07 April 5, 2000, includes section 710, for profit. ‘‘Reports by Carriers on Incidents Notice of Submission of Proposed Involving Animals During Air Abstract: Sections 30118(e) and Information Collection to OMB Agency Transport.’’ This provision was codified 30120(e) of Title 49 of the United States Request for Renewal of a Previously as 49 U.S.C. 41721. The statute requires Code specify that any interested person Approved Information Collection air carriers that provide scheduled may petition NHTSA to hold a hearing Request: Reports by Air Carriers on passenger air transportation to submit to determine whether a manufacturer of Incidents Involving Animals During Air monthly to the Secretary of motor vehicles or motor vehicle Transport Transportation a report on any incidents equipment has met its obligation to involving the loss, injury, or death of an notify owners, purchasers, and dealers AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), animal (as defined by the Secretary of of vehicles or equipment of a safety- Department of Transportation Transportation) during air transport related defect or noncompliance with a (Department or DOT). provided by the air carrier. Federal motor vehicle safety standard in ACTION: Notice and request for On August 11, 2003, DOT, through its the manufacturer’s products and to comments. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), remedy that defect or noncompliance. issued a final rule implementing section To implement these statutory SUMMARY: In accordance with the 710 of AIR–21.1 The rule required air provisions, NHTSA promulgated 49 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this carriers that provide scheduled CFR part 557, Petitions for Hearings on notice announces the Department’s passenger air transportation to submit a Notification and Remedy of Defects. Part intention to apply to the Office of report to APHIS on any incident 557 establishes procedures providing for Management and Budget (OMB) to sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES involving the loss, injury, or death of an the submission and disposition of renew the previously approved animal during air transportation petitions for hearings on the issues of information collection request (ICR) provided by the air carrier. Due to issues whether the manufacturer has met its OMB No. 2105–0552, ‘‘Reports by Air regarding whether APHIS had the obligation to notify owners, purchasers, Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals and dealers of safety-related defects or During Air Transport.’’ The current 1 Reporting Directive Regarding Incidents noncompliance, or to remedy such information collection request approved Involving Animals During Air Transport, 68 FR defect or noncompliance free of charge. by OMB expires August 31, 2018. 47798 (August 11, 2003). VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:20 May 18, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 98 / Monday, May 21, 2018 / Notices 23525 capability to accept such information Frequency: For each respondent, one Reduction Act of 1995, the Department directly from the carriers, DOT made a information set for the month of of Transportation (the Department) technical change in the rule on February December, plus one information set invites public comments on a request to 14, 2005, to require air carriers to during some other months (1 to 12). the Office of Management and Budget submit the required information directly Estimated Total Burden on (OMB) to approve modifications to two to DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Respondents: (1) Monthly reports of currently approved Information Division (ACPD) rather than APHIS and incidents involving the loss, injury, or Collection Requests (ICRs). As part of to make the rule part of DOT’s economic death of animals during air transport: 0 the modifications to the ICRs, one ICR regulations.2 to 384 hours (Respondents [32] × Time will be integrated into the other ICR. On July 3, 2014, DOT published a to Prepare One Monthly Report [1 hour] The modified and integrated ICR will be final rule amending the requirement × Frequency [0 to 12 per year]). (2) used to allow entities to apply for that air carriers file reports with DOT on December report containing the total Railroad Rehabilitation and the loss, injury, or death of animals number of animals that were lost, Improvement Financing (RRIF) and during air transport.3 The rule (1) injured, or died during air transport in Transportation Infrastructure Financing expanded the reporting requirement the calendar year and the total number and Innovation Act (TIFIA) credit from the largest U.S. carriers (i.e., U.S. of animals that were transported in the assistance using a common set of forms, carriers that account for at least 1 calendar year: 16 hours (Respondents rather than having a separate set of percent of domestic scheduled [32] × Time to Prepare One December forms for each of RRIF and TIFIA. The passenger revenue) to U.S. carriers that Report [0.5 hour] × Frequency (1 per new, integrated forms have also been operate scheduled service with at least year)]. updated to reflect changes in law, one aircraft with a design capacity of Public comments invited: You are streamlining of the credit programs, and more than 60 seats; (2) expanded the asked to comment on any aspect of this efficiencies in the application process definition of ‘‘animal’’ from only a pet information collection, including (a) adopted by the Department. However, in a family household to include all cats whether the proposed collection of the general process of applying for and dogs transported by covered information is necessary for the credit assistance is not changing; carriers, regardless of whether the cat or Department’s performance; (b) the applications are still accepted on a dog is transported as a pet by its owner accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) rolling basis. The ICR continues to be or as part of a commercial shipment ways for the Department to enhance the necessary for the Department to evaluate (e.g., shipped by a breeder); (3) required quality, utility, and clarity of the projects and project sponsors for credit covered carriers to file a calendar-year information collection; and (d) ways program eligibility and creditworthiness report in December, even if the carrier that the burden could be minimized as required by law. did not have any reportable incidents without reducing the quality of the DATES: We must receive your comments during the calendar year; (4) required collected information. on or before July 20, 2018. covered carriers to provide in their All comments will become a matter of ADDRESSES: All comments should December reports the total number of public record. All responses to this notice will be summarized and included reference Federal Docket Management animals that were lost, injured, or died System (FDMS) Docket No. DOT–OST– during air transport in the calendar year; in the request for OMB approval. Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 2018–0044. Interested persons are and (5) required covered carriers to invited to submit written comments on provide in their December reports the Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.27(n). the proposed information collection total number of animals transported in through one of the following methods: the calendar year. On August 25, 2015, Issued in Washington, DC, on May 15, • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// OMB approved the information 2018, under the authority delegated at 49 CFR 1.27(n). www.regulations.gov. Follow the online collection request, ‘‘Reports by Air instructions for submitting comments. Blane A. Workie, Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. During Air Transport,’’ through August Assistant General Counsel for Aviation • Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket 31, 2018. Enforcement and Proceedings. Management Facility, U.S. Department In order to reduce burden to covered [FR Doc. 2018–10763 Filed 5–18–18; 8:45 am] of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey carriers, the ACPD established a website BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12– and online system for filing the required 140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 reports, http://animalreport.ost.dot.gov. a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through This system enables covered carriers to DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Friday, except on Federal holidays. easily and efficiently submit their [Docket No. DOT–OST–2018–0044] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: reports through the internet rather than Jenny Barket at Jenny.Barket@dot.gov or sending the reports to the Department Notice of Proposed Agency (202) 366–9993, or The Build America by mail or email. Information Collection Activities; Bureau via email at BuildAmerica@ Respondents: U.S. carriers that Agency Request To Modify Existing dot.gov or (202) 366–2300. operate scheduled passenger service Information Collections: Railroad SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: with at least one aircraft having a Rehabilitation and Improvement OMB Control Number: 2105–0569. designed seating capacity of more than Financing (RRIF) and Transportation Title: Letter of Interest and 60 seats. Infrastructure Financing and Application Forms for the Railroad Estimated Number of Respondents: Innovation Act (TIFIA) Credit Programs sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Rehabilitation and Improvement 32. Financing and Transportation AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation. Infrastructure Financing and Innovation 2 Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving ACTION: Notice and request for Act Credit Programs. Animals During Air Transport, 70 FR 7392 (February 14, 2005). comments. Type of Review: Modification of 3 Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving existing information collections. Animals During Air Transport, 79 FR 37938 (July SUMMARY: In accordance with the Background: The RRIF credit program 3, 2014) (codified at 14 CFR part 235). requirements of the Paperwork has its origins in Title V of the Railroad VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:20 May 18, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00112 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1


Document Created: 2018-11-02 11:07:30
Document Modified: 2018-11-02 11:07:30
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesComments on this notice must be received by July 20, 2018.
ContactVinh Q. Nguyen, Senior Trial Attorney, 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).
FR Citation83 FR 23524 
RIN Number2105-AE07
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