[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15949-15950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7624]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee, Air Carrier Operations--
New Task
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of new task assignment for the Aviation Rulemaking
Advisory Committee.
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SUMMARY: Notice is given of a new task assigned to the Aviation
Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) and its decision to form the
Fatigue Countermeasures and Alertness Management Techniques Working
Group to analyze and recommend to it solutions to issues contained in
the assigned tasks. This notice informs the public of the activities of
ARAC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Quentin Smith, Flight Standards Service, Federal Aviation
Administration, 800 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20591,
Telephone: (202) 267-8166.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established an
Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) (56 FR 2109, January 22,
1991; and 58 FR 9230, February 19, 1993). ARAC provides advice and
recommendations to the FAA Administrator, through the Associate
Administrator for Regulation and Certification, on the full range of
the FAA's rulemaking activities with respect to aviation-related
issues. One area ARAC deals with is Air Carrier Operations issues.
These issues involve the operational requirements for air carriers, to
include crewmember requirements, airplane operating performance and
limitations, and eequipment requirements. The new task is related to
these issues.
Task
The following new task is being assigned to ARAC:
To develop an advisory circular that ourlines fatigue
countermeasures and alertness management techniques that could improve
safety in air transportation. This advisory circular will discuss the
current state of the knowledge associated with the physiological
mechanisms underlying fatigue; demonstrate how this knowledge can be
applied to improve flight crew rest, alertness, and performance; and
provide practical recommendations for use by crewmembers.
A recommendation in the form of an advisory circular, or other
advisory material, will be submitted in a format prescribed by the FAA.
The recommendation should be fully justified, and the justification
should be presented as part of the recommendation.
ARAC recommendations to the FAA should be accompanied by
appropriate documents. Recommendations for rulemaking should be
accompanied by a complete draft of the notice(s) of proposed
rulemaking, including the benefit/cost analysis and other required
analyses. Recommendations for the issue of guidance material should be
accompanied by a complete advisory circular.
ARAC Activity
In order to carry out the functions of the committee to develop
advice and recommendations, ARAC may choose to establish working groups
to which specific tasks are assigned. Such working groups are comprised
of experts from those organizations having an interest in certain tasks
assigned to ARAC. This notice is intended to notify the public that
ARAC is establishing the Fatigue Countermeasures and Alertness
Management Working Group.
Working Group Formation
Any individual who has expertise in the subject matter and wishes
to become a member of the Fatigue Countermeasures and Alertness
Management Techniques Working Group should contact 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.
Working group recommendations must be reviewed and approved by
ARAC. If ARAC accepts the working group's recommendations, it forwards
them to the FAA as an ARAC recommendation.
Working Group Reports
Each working group formed to consider an ARAC task(s) 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(s), including
rationale, for consideration at the meeting of ARAC to consider Air
Carrier Operations issues held following publication of this notice.
B. Give a detailed conceptual presentation on the task to ARAC
before proceeding with the task.
C. Give a status report on the task at each meeting of ARAC held to
consider Air Carrier Operations issues.
The Secretary of Transportation has determined that the formation
and use of 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 Fatigue Countermeasures
and Alertness Management Techniques 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 March 22,1995.
Quentin Smith,
Assistant Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. 95-7624 Filed 3-27-95; 8:45 am]
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