[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35236-35237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16624]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
Office of Transportation Policy and Federal Aviation
Administration, Civil Aero Medical Institute; Notice of Request for
Extension and Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT and Federal Aviation
Administration.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended) this notice announces the Department of
Transportation, DOT, intentions to request an extension for and
revision to a currently approved information collection.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by no later than August
30, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Four (4) copies of any comments should be sent to the Safety
and Health Division (P-140), Office of Transportation Policy, Office of
the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 7th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert M. Clarke, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Transportation Policy Development (P-100),
Department of Transportation, at the address above. Telephone: (202)
366-2916.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Infant Travel Survey.
OMB Control Number: 2105-0536.
Expiration Date: June 30, 1999.
Type of Request: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Children 2 years of age and younger are exempt from the
FAA requirement that they be restrained in a seat during transport
airplane takeoffs and landings. In February 1997, the White House
Commission on Aviation Safety and Security recommended that this
exemption be eliminated, requiring instead that those children be
placed in a separate aircraft seat equipped with an approved Child
Restraint System (CRS). In May 1995, in response to Section 522 of the
Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103-
305, the FAA published a report on CRS use in transport category
aircraft. A subsequent reanalysis of this issue conducted by staff in
the OST Policy Office has yielded different conclusions, because
certain of the assumptions used in the FAA study were deemed untenable.
FAA issued an ANPRM in April 2, 1998 (the comment period closed
June 28), seeking technical comments about what types of CRS could/
should be used in transport category aircraft. Responses to those
questions provide needed technical information relative to
implementation of CRS aboard transport airplanes, but economic
questions related to the issue were not included in that Notice. This
deficiency resulted in little information, on which to assess the
validity of the assumptions used in its analysis, being received from
the traveling public by the FAA. Accordingly, there is a need to gauge
the impact that requiring use of CRS would have on travelers
accompanied by infants and small children, 2 years of age and less.
Information needs to be obtained about the types of trips (length,
purpose, mode of travel) on which such children accompany adults; the
prevalence of actual CRS use, relative to air travel by infants and
small children; the factors that determine whether CRS are being used
for such children; and what types of changes to these travel events
would result from requiring the use of CRS.
Respondents: This is a relatively small-scale, one-time survey that
is not conducive to electronic collection techniques. Face-to-face
interviews, conducted in the departure waiting lounges at hub airports,
will be obtained with randomly-selected adults accompanied by infants
and small children in actual air-travel status. The interview will
conform to a scripted set of questions prepared for the interviewer,
and the answer form will be partially machine-coded for ease of data
reduction by the research team. This survey will target individual or
paired adults (typically parents) travelling with infants and small
children.
Average Annual Burden per Respondent: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 74.7 hours.
The information collection is available for inspection at the
Safety and Health Division (P-140), Room 10309, Office of
Transportation Policy, DOT.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of
the proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be
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collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 25, 1999.
Robert M. Clarke,
Safety and Health Team Leader, Office of Transportation Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 99-16624 Filed 6-29-99; 8:45 am]
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