83 FR 2866 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Renewal, Rotorcraft External Load Operator Certificate Application

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 13 (January 19, 2018)

Page Range		2866-2867
FR Document		2018-00827

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The collection involves the submission of application FAA Form 8710-4 for the certification process. The information to be collected will be used to and/or is necessary to evaluate the operators request to become certified as a Rotorcraft External-Load Operator.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; 
Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Renewal, 
Rotorcraft External Load Operator Certificate Application

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 
invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information 
collection. The collection involves the submission of application FAA 
Form 8710-4 for the certification process. The information to be 
collected will be used to and/or is necessary to evaluate the operators 
request to become certified as a Rotorcraft External-Load Operator.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by March 20, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the FAA at the following address: Barbara 
Hall, Federal Aviation Administration, ASP-110, 10101 Hillwood Parkway, 
Fort Worth, TX 76177.
    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 FAA's performance; (b) the 
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to

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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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Hall by email at: 
Barbara.L.Hall@faa.gov; phone: 940-594-5913.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 2120-0044.
    Title: Rotorcraft External Load Operator Certificate Application.
    Form Numbers: FAA Form 8710-4.
    Type of Review: This is a renewal of an information collection.
    Background: Application for certificate issuance or renewal of a 14 
CFR part 133 Rotorcraft External Load Operator Certificate. Application 
for an original certificate or renewal of a certificate issued under 14 
CFR part 133 is made on a form, and in a manner, prescribed by the 
Administrator. The FAA form 8710-4 may be obtained from an FAA Flight 
Standards District Office. The completed application is sent to the 
district office that has jurisdiction over the area in which the 
applicant's home base of operation is located.
    The information collected includes: Type of application, Operators 
name/DBAs, telephone number, mailing address, physical address of the 
principal base of operations, Chief pilot/designee name, airman 
certificate grade and number, rotorcraft make/model registration 
numbers to be used and load combinations requested.
    Respondents: 358 active 14 CFR part 133 Certificate Holders.
    Frequency: New applications as industry dictates, however, current 
14 CFR part 133 certificate holders must renew every 24 months.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: Approximately 30 minutes per 
application.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 89.5 hours per year for 14 CFR part 
133 renewals.

    Issued in Fort Worth, TX on January 8, 2018.
Barbara L. Hall,
FAA Information Collection Clearance Officer, Performance, Policy, and 
Records Management Branch, ASP-110.
[FR Doc. 2018-00827 Filed 1-18-18; 8:45 am]
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the requirements have changed, but submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to the mandates set by Congress. The
operator data have changed. The overall (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the Office information requested is limited to the
number of operators has decreased. of Information and Regulatory Affairs, minimum necessary to fulfill these
Additionally, the number of large Office of Management and Budget, reporting requirements mandated by the
operators (to which we attribute a Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Act and as developed by FAA. The
higher hourly burden) has increased and Street NW, Washington, DC 20503. amount of data required to be submitted
the number of small operators (to which Public Comments Invited: You are is proportional to the size of the
we attribute a lower hourly burden) has asked to comment on any aspect of this operation.
decreased. Therefore, in the aggregate, information collection, including (a) Respondents: 65 helicopter air
the average hourly burden increased Whether the proposed collection of ambulance certificate holders.
from six (6) hours to eleven (11) hours information is necessary for FAA’s Frequency: The information is
per operator. performance; (b) the accuracy of the collected annually.
The AMOA commented that they estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to Estimated Average Burden per
strongly supported the intent of the data enhance the quality, utility and clarity Response: 13.4 hours.
collection requirement, but also noted of the information collection; and (d) Estimated Total Annual Burden: 870
that the original collection requirement ways that the burden could be hours.
should have been the subject of notice minimized without reducing the quality Issued in Fort Worth, TX, on January 8,
and comment rulemaking. The FAA of the collected information. The agency 2018.
notes, as indicated in the August 12, will summarize and/or include your Barbara Hall,
2013 Requests for Comments; Clearance comments in the request for OMB’s FAA Information Collection Clearance
of a New Approval of Information clearance of this information collection. Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services
Collection: Helicopter Air Ambulance FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Division, ASP–110.
Operator Reports (78 FR 48925), that Barbara Hall at (940) 594–5913, or by [FR Doc. 2018–00826 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am]
prior to issuance of the first information email at: Barbara.L.Hall@faa.gov. BILLING CODE 4910–13–P
collection notice, representatives from SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
the Flight Standards Service, Office of OMB Control Number: 2120–0761.
Accident Investigation and Prevention, Title: Helicopter Air Ambulance DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
and the Office of the Chief Counsel met Operator Reports.
with representatives from AMOA to Federal Aviation Administration
Form Numbers: Helicopter Air
discuss the FAA’s approach to this data Ambulance Mandatory Flight
collection. Meetings were held on Agency Information Collection
Information Report. Activities: Requests for Comments;
October 15, 2012 and May 17, 2013. On Type of Review: Renewal of an
June 28, 2013 AMOA submitted a Clearance of Renewed Approval of
information collection. Information Collection: Renewal,
response to the FAA discussing its view Background: The Federal Register
of the method to collect the data being Rotorcraft External Load Operator
Notice with a 60-day comment period Certificate Application
pursued by the FAA. A copy of that soliciting comments on the following
letter was placed in the docket (FAA– collection of information was published AGENCY: Federal Aviation
2013–0684) and was considered by the on November 3, 2017 (82 FR 51331). Administration (FAA), DOT.
agency. The FAA Modernization and Reform ACTION: Notice and request for
AMOA also commented that the FAA Act of 2012 (The Act) mandates that all comments.
has underestimated the hourly burden helicopter air ambulance operators must
for both large and small operators. begin reporting the number of flights SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Although AMOA did not provide any and hours flown, along with other Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
specific data to support its comment, in specified information, during which invites public comments about our
response the FAA has increased the helicopters operated by the certificate intention to request the Office of
estimates of hourly burden for both holder were providing helicopter air Management and Budget (OMB)
large and small operators in this notice ambulance services. See Public Law approval to renew an information
and request for comments. 112–95, Sec. 306, 49 U.S.C. 44731. The collection. The collection involves the
AMOA also requested information FAA Administrator had 180 days to submission of application FAA Form
from the FAA’s Office of Accident develop a methodology to collect and 8710–4 for the certification process. The
Investigation and Prevention and store those data. The Act further information to be collected will be used
commented on the FAA’s mandates that not later than 2 years to and/or is necessary to evaluate the
implementation of certain provisions of after the date of enactment, and operators request to become certified as
the FAA Modernization and Reform Act annually thereafter, the Administrator a Rotorcraft External-Load Operator.
of 2012, which are both beyond the shall submit to the Committee on DATES: Written comments should be
scope of this clearance of a renewed Transportation and Infrastructure of the submitted by March 20, 2018.
approval of information collection. House of Representatives and the ADDRESSES: Send comments to the FAA
DATES: Written comments should be Committee on Commerce, Science, and at the following address: Barbara Hall,
submitted by February 20, 2018. Transportation of the Senate, a report Federal Aviation Administration, ASP–
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are containing a summary of the data 110, 10101 Hillwood Parkway, Fort
invited to submit written comments on collected. Worth, TX 76177.
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the proposed information collection to The helicopter air ambulance Public Comments Invited: You are
the Office of Information and Regulatory operational data provided to the FAA asked to comment on any aspect of this
Affairs, Office of Management and will be used by the agency as information collection, including (a)
Budget. Comments should be addressed background information useful in the Whether the proposed collection of
to the attention of the Desk Officer, development of risk mitigation information is necessary for FAA’s
Department of Transportation/FAA, and strategies to reduce the helicopter air performance; (b) the accuracy of the
sent via electronic mail to oira_ ambulance accident rate, and to meet estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to

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enhance the quality, utility and clarity DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FONSI) for the following highway
of the information collection; and (d) project in the State of Rhode Island: Toll
ways that the burden could be Federal Highway Administration Locations 1 and 2 in the Towns of
minimized without reducing the quality Hopkinton, Richmond, and Exeter.
Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions RIDOT proposes to construct and
of the collected information. The agency
on Proposed Highway Project in operate electronic toll systems at two
will summarize and/or include your
Rhode Island locations (Toll Location 1—between
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection. AGENCY: Federal Highway Exits 2 and 3, and Location 2—between
Administration (FHWA), Department of Exits 4 and 5) along Interstate 95 in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: southwestern part of Rhode Island
Transportation (DOT).
Barbara Hall by email at: (Proposed Action). Revenue from Toll
ACTION: Notice of Limitation on Claims
Barbara.L.Hall@faa.gov; phone: 940– Locations 1 and 2 would be generated
for Judicial Review of Actions by
594–5913. FHWA. and used in accordance with The Rhode
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Island Bridge Replacement,
SUMMARY: This notice announces actions Reconstruction and Maintenance Fund
OMB Control Number: 2120–0044. taken by the FHWA that are final Act of 2016. The proposed toll systems
Title: Rotorcraft External Load pursuant to the statute. The actions would be used to collect toll revenue
Operator Certificate Application. relate to a proposed highway project, from a tractor or truck tractor as defined
Toll Locations 1 and 2 in the Towns of in 23 CFR 658.5, pulling a trailer or
Form Numbers: FAA Form 8710–4.
Hopkinton, Richmond, and Exeter in the trailers traveling across select bridges
Type of Review: This is a renewal of State of Rhode Island, FHWA Project associated with the toll locations. Each
an information collection. Number T0LL002, Rhode Island toll system would be comprised of one
Background: Application for Department of Transportation (RIDOT) or more gantries with communication
certificate issuance or renewal of a 14 Contract Number 2017–OT–002. and electrical connections, a roadside
CFR part 133 Rotorcraft External Load DATES: By this notice, the FHWA is cabinet on a concrete pad, and
Operator Certificate. Application for an advising the public of final agency additional safety guardrail.
original certificate or renewal of a actions subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). A The actions by the FHWA, and the
certificate issued under 14 CFR part 133 claim seeking judicial review of the laws under which such actions were
is made on a form, and in a manner, Federal agency actions on the highway taken, are described in the
prescribed by the Administrator. The project will be barred unless the claim Environmental Assessment (EA) for the
FAA form 8710–4 may be obtained from is filed on or before June 18, 2018. If the project approved on December 15, 2017,
an FAA Flight Standards District Office. Federal law that authorizes judicial and a Finding of No Significant Impact
review of a claim provides a time period (FONSI) issued on December 20, 2017.
The completed application is sent to the
of less than 150 days for filing such The EA, FONSI, and other project
district office that has jurisdiction over
claim, then that shorter time period still records are available by contacting the
the area in which the applicant’s home applies. FHWA or the Rhode Island Department
base of operation is located.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For of Transportation at the addresses
The information collected includes: FHWA: Mr. Carlos E. Padilla-Fresse, provided above. The EA and FONSI can
Type of application, Operators name/ MSCE, Program Delivery Supervisor, be viewed and downloaded from the
DBAs, telephone number, mailing Federal Highway Administration Rhode project website at http://www.dot.ri.gov/
address, physical address of the Island Division, 380 Westminster Mall, rhodeworks/.
principal base of operations, Chief pilot/ Suite 601, Providence, Rhode Island This notice applies to all Federal
designee name, airman certificate grade 02903: telephone: (401) 528–4577; agency decisions as of the issuance date
and number, rotorcraft make/model email: Carlos.Padilla@dot.gov. The of this notice and all laws under which
registration numbers to be used and FHWA Rhode Island Division Office’s such actions were taken, including but
load combinations requested. normal business hours are 8:00 a.m. to not limited to:
Respondents: 358 active 14 CFR part 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time), 1. General: National Environmental Policy
133 Certificate Holders. Monday through Friday, except Federal Act (NEPA) [42 U.S.C. 4321–4370h];
Holidays. For RIDOT: Mr. David Fish, Federal-Aid Highway Act [Title 23] and
Frequency: New applications as P.E., Administrator of Project associated regulations [CFR part 23].
industry dictates, however, current 14 Management, Rhode Island Department 2. Hazardous Materials: Comprehensive
CFR part 133 certificate holders must of Transportation, Two Capitol Hill, Environmental Response, Compensation,
renew every 24 months. and Liability Act [42 U.S.C. 9601–9675];
Providence, Rhode Island 02903–1124, Superfund Amendments and
Estimated Average Burden per telephone: (401) 222–2023, email: Reauthorization Act of 1986 [Pub. L. 99–
Response: Approximately 30 minutes david.fish@dot.ri.gov. RIDOT normal 499]; Resource Conservation and
per application. business hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Recovery Act [42 U.S.C. 6901–6992(k)].
(Eastern Standard Time), Monday 3. Air: Clean Air Act, [42 U.S.C. 7401–
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 89.5 7671(q)](transportation conformity);
through Friday, except Federal
hours per year for 14 CFR part 133 Intermodal Surface Transportation
Holidays.
renewals. Efficiency Act of 1991, Congestion
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
Issued in Fort Worth, TX on January 8,
December 20, 2017, the Federal Program (Sec 1008 U.S.C. 149).
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2018. 4. Noise: 23 U.S.C. 109(i) (Pub. L. 91–605)
Highway Administration (FHWA)
Barbara L. Hall, assumed environmental responsibilities (Pub. L. 93–87).
FAA Information Collection Clearance for this project pursuant to 23 U.S.C 5. Wildlife: Endangered Species Act [16
Officer, Performance, Policy, and Records U.S.C. 1531–1544]; Fish and Wildlife
327. Notice is hereby given that the Coordination Act [16 U.S.C. 661–667(e)];
Management Branch, ASP–110. FHWA has taken final agency actions Migratory Bird Treaty Act [16 U.S.C.
[FR Doc. 2018–00827 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am] subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1) by issuing 703–712]. Plant Protection Act [7 U.S.C.
BILLING CODE 4910–13–P a Finding of No Significant Impact 7701 et seq.].

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice and request for comments.
Dates		Written comments should be submitted by March 20, 2018.
Contact		Barbara Hall by email at: [email protected]; phone: 940-594-5913.
FR Citation		83 FR 2866

83 FR 2866 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Renewal, Rotorcraft External Load Operator Certificate Application

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONFederal Aviation Administration

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