[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 13 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4219-4220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1544]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Avaition Rulemaking Advisory Committee; Transport Airplane and
Engine Issues
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of establishment of the Alternative Methods of
Compliance (AMOC) Working Group.
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SUMMARY: Notice is given of the establishment of the Alternative
Methods of Compliance (AMOC) Working Group and a new task assigned to
the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC). This notice informs
the public of the activities of ARAC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stewart R. Miller, Manager, Transport Standards Staff, ANM-110,
Transport Airplane Directorate, Federal Aviation Administration, 1601
Lind Avenue, SW., Renton, WA 98055-4056; telephone (206) 227-2190; fax
(206) 227-1320.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
has established an Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) (56 FR
2190, January 22, 1991; and 58 FR 9230, February 19, 1993). One area
the ARAC deals with is transport airplane and engine issues. These
issues involve the airworthiness standards for transport category
airplanes and engines in 14 CFR parts 25, 33, and 35 and parallel
provisions in 14 CFR parts 121 and 135.
Task
The Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOC) Working Group is
charged with the following task and making its recommendations to ARAC:
Develop industry and FAA methods for improving the timeliness of
approvals for alternative methods of compliance with Airworthiness
Directives (AD), while maintaining at least the same level of safety.
[[Page 4220]] The objectives of the task are to evaluate the
process for issuing alternative means of compliance (AMOC) and to
develop recommendations for improving that process in order to
accomplish the following:
(1) Improve the timeliness of the AMOC issuance;
(2) Maintain at least the same level of safety achieved under the
existing process;
(3) Reduce the need for AMOC while maintaining legal enforceability
of ADs;
(4) Standardize the process for issuing AMOCs throughout the FAA;
and
(5) Accomplish the foregoing in a cost effective manner for
industry and without increasing the need for FAA resources.
ARAC is forming the Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOC)
Working Group to analyze and recommend to its solutions to issues
contained in the assigned task. If ARAC accepts the working group's
recommendations, it forwards them to the FAA.
ARAC working groups are comprised of technical experts on the
subject matter. A working group member need not necessarily be a
representative of one of the member organizations of ARAC. An
individual who has expertise in the subject matter and wishes to become
a member of the working group should write the person listed under the
caption FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT expressing that desire,
describing his or her interest in the task, and the expertise he or she
would bring to the working group. The request will be reviewed by the
ARAC assistant chair, the working group leader, and the assistant
executive director, and the individual will be advised whether or not
the request can be accommodated.
Working Group Reports
Each working group formed to consider an ARAC task is expected to
comply with the procedures adopted by ARAC and given to the working
group chair. As part of the procedures, the working group is expected
to:
A. Recommend a work plan for completion of the task, including
rationale for consideration at the meeting of the ARAC to consider
transport airplane and engine issues held following publication of this
notice.
B. Give a detailed conceptual presentation on the task to the ARAC
before proceeding with the task.
C. Give a status report on the task at each meeting of ARAC held to
consider transport airplane and engine issues.
The Secretary of Transportation has determined that the formation
and use of the ARAC are necessary in the public interest in connection
with the performance of duties imposed on the FAA by law. Meetings of
ARAC will be open to the public except as authorized by section 10(d)
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Meetings of the Alternative
Methods of Compliance (AMOC) Working Group will not be open to the
public, except to the extent that individuals with an interest and
expertise are selected to participate. No public announcement of
working group meetings will be made.
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 13, 1995.
Chris A. Christie,
Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. 95-1544 Filed 1-19-95; 8:45 am]
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