[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 30195-30196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13877]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
49 CFR Part 1
[OST Docket No. 1; Amdt. 1-270]
Organization and Delegation of Powers and Duties Transfer of
Delegations From the Administrator of the Research and Special Programs
Administration to the Director of the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: Responsibility for the Department's aviation information
program has been transferred from the Administrator of the Research and
Special Programs Administration to the Director of the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics. This rule amends the delegations to be in
accordance with the changed responsibilities. The rule is necessary to
reflect the delegations in the Code of Federal Regulations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This rule is effective on May 28, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven B. Farbman, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for
Regulation and Enforcement (202) 366-9306, United States Department of
Transportation, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Responsibility for the Department's aviation
information program is being transferred from the Administrator of the
Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) to the Director of
the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The office within RSPA
that has had this responsibility is the Office of Airline Statistics
(OAS), formerly known as the Office of Aviation Information Management
(OAIM). The name change occurred as part of a 1990 reorganization of
RSPA. Although the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) was not revised to
reflect the name change, the industry was informed of the change by a
directive issued by RSPA.
The office within BTS that is receiving the responsibility is the
Office of Airline Information. This rule [[Page 30196]] amends the
delegations to be in accordance with the transfer. Included among the
delegations is the authority to make and amend whatever regulations are
necessary to carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40101 et seq.,
formerly the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended. (Pub. L. 103-
272, enacted July 5, 1994, revised and recodified the Federal Aviation
Act within Subtitle VII of Title 49.) We will publish another final
rule that will redesignate the Department's regulation that sets forth
the authority of the Director of OAIM and will revise those portions of
the CFR that still refer to RSPA and OAIM with respect to the aviation
information program.
Since this rule relates to departmental management, organization,
procedure, and practice, notice and public comment are unnecessary. For
the same reason, good cause exists for not publishing this rule at
least 30 days before its effective date, as is ordinarily required by 5
U.S.C. 553(d). Because the date of the transfer of responsibility for
the aviation information program is May 28, 1995, that is the effective
date of this rule.
List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 1
Authority delegations (Government agencies), Organizations and
functions (Government agencies).
PART 1--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for Part 1 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322; Pub. L. 101-552, 28 U.S.C. 2672, 31
U.S.C. 3711(a)(2).
Sec. 1.2 [Amended]
2. Section 1.2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as
follows:
* * * * *
(j) The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Sec. 1.3 [Amended]
3. Section 1.3(b) is amended by adding a new paragraph (b)(10) to
read as follows:
* * * * *
(10) The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, headed by the
Director.
Sec. 1.4 [Amended]
4. Section 1.4 is amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as
follows:
* * * * *
(l) The Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Is responsible for:
(1) Compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of
transportation statistics to provide timely summaries and total
(including industrywide aggregates and multiyear averages) of
transportation-related information;
(2) Establishing and implementing, in cooperation with the modal
administrators, the States, and other Federal officials, a
comprehensive, long-term program for the collection and analysis of
data relating to the performance of the national transportation system;
(3) Issuing guidelines for the collection of information by the
Department required for statistics to be compiled pursuant to 49 U.S.C.
111(c)(1) in order to ensure that such information is accurate,
reliable, relevant, and in a form that permits systematic analysis;
(4) Coordinating the collection of information by the Department
required for statistics to be compiled pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 111(c)(1)
with related information-gathering activities conducted by the other
Federal departments and agencies collecting appropriate data not
elsewhere gathered;
(5) Making the statistics published under this subsection readily
accessible, in compliance with all disclosure laws, regulations, and
requirements; and.
(6) Identifying information that is needed in accordance with 49
U.S.C. 111(c)(1) but which is not being collected, reviewing such needs
at least annually with the Advisory Council on Transportation
Statistics, and making recommendations to appropriate Department of
Transportation research officials concerning extramural and intramural
research programs to provide such information.
Sec. 1.53 [Amended]
5. Section 1.53(g) is removed and reserved.
6. A new Sec. 1.71 is added as follows:
Sec. 1.71 Delegations to the Director of the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics is
delegated authority to exercise powers and perform duties under the
following statutes:
(a) Aviation information. (1) 49 U.S.C. 329(b)(1), relating to
collection and dissemination of information on civil aeronautics;
(2) Section 4(a)(7) of the Civil Aeronautics Board Sunset Act of
1984 (October 4, 1984; Pub. L. 98-443), relating to the reporting of
the extension of unsecured credit to political candidates (section 401,
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971; 2 U.S.C. 451), in conjunction
with the General Counsel and the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and
International Affairs; and
(3) 49 U.S.C. 40113 (relating to taking such actions and issuing
such regulations as may be necessary to carry out responsibilities
under the Act), 49 U.S.C. 41702 (relating to the duty of carriers to
provide safe and adequate service), 49 U.S.C. 41708 and 41709 (relating
to the requirement to keep information and the forms in which it is to
be kept), and 49 U.S.C. 41701 (relating to establishing just and
reasonable classifications of carriers and rules to be followed by
each) as appropriate to carry out the responsibilities under this
paragraph in conjunction with the General Counsel and the Assistant
Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
(b) [Reserve].
Issued at Washington, DC this 25th day of May 1995.
Federico Pena,
Secretary of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 95-13877 Filed 6-7-95; 8:45 am]
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