[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 126 (Friday, June 29, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 38747-38751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16024]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
14 CFR Parts 234 and 235
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2010-0211]
RIN 2105-AE07
Reports by Air Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air
Transport
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
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SUMMARY: The Department is proposing to amend its existing rule
regarding the reporting of incidents involving animals during air
transport, 14 CFR 234.13, to expand the reporting requirement to U.S.
carriers that operate scheduled service with at least one aircraft with
a design capacity of more than 60 seats, to expand the definition of
``animal'' to include all cats and dogs transported by the carrier,
regardless of whether the cat or dog is transported as a pet by its
owner or as part of a commercial shipment (e.g., shipped by a breeder),
and to require all covered carriers to provide in their December
reports the total number of animals that were lost, injured, or died
during air transport. We also seek comment on requiring carriers to
report the total number of animals transported in the calendar year in
the December reports.
DATES: Comments should be filed by August 28, 2012. Late-filed comments
will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may file comments identified by the docket number DOT-
OST-2010-0211 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Room W12-140, Washington, DC
20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket number
DOT-OST-2010-0211 or Regulatory Identification Number (RIN) for the
rulemaking at the beginning of your comment. All comments will be
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received in any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment if submitted on behalf
of an association, a business, a labor union, etc.). You may review
DOT's complete Privacy Act statement in the Federal Register published
on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78), or you may visit http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or to the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vinh Q. Nguyen, Trial Attorney, Office
of the Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave.
SE., Washington, DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (phone), 202-366-7152 (fax),
[email protected]. You may also contact Blane A. Workie, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for
Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590, 202-
366-9342 (phone), 202-366-7152 (fax), [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The current rule regarding reporting of incidents involving animals
during air transport derives from the Wendell H. Ford Aviation
Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century or ``AIR-21'' (Pub. L.
106-181), which was signed into law on April 5, 2000. It included
section 710, ``Reports by Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals
During Air Transport,'' and was codified as 49 U.S.C. 41721. Section
41721 contains the following provisions:
(a) In General.--An air carrier that provides scheduled
passenger air transportation shall submit monthly to the Secretary a
report on any incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an
animal (as defined by the Secretary of Transportation) during air
transport provided by the air carrier. The report shall be in such
form and contain such information as the Secretary determines
appropriate.
* * * * *
(d) Publication of Data.--The Secretary shall publish data on
incidents and complaints involving the loss, injury, or death of an
animal during air transport in a manner comparable to other consumer
complaint and incident data.
(e) Air Transport.--For purposes of this section, the air
transport of an animal includes the entire period during which an
animal is in the custody of an air carrier, from check-in of the
animal prior to departure until the animal is returned to the owner
or guardian of the animal at the final destination of the animal.
On August 11, 2003, DOT, through its Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), issued a final rule implementing section 710 of
AIR-21. See 68 FR 47798. The rule required air carriers that provide
scheduled passenger air transportation to submit a report to the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) on any incident involving the loss,
injury, or death of an animal during air transportation provided by the
air carrier. Under the rule, the reports would then be shared with DOT,
which would publish the data, as required by AIR-21, in a format
similar to the manner in which it publishes data on consumer complaints
and other incidents. However, issues arose regarding whether APHIS had
the capability to accept such information directly from the carriers
and pass it on to DOT. In order to resolve any such issues, on February
14, 2005, DOT made a technical change in the rule to require reporting
airlines to submit the required information directly to DOT's Aviation
Consumer Protection Division (ACPD) rather than APHIS and to make the
rule part of DOT's economic regulations. See 70 FR 7392. The rule is
codified at 14 CFR 234.13.
Section 234.13 requires air carriers that provide scheduled
passenger air transportation to submit a report to the ACPD on any
incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air
transportation within 15 days of the end of the month during which the
incident occurred. It defines ``animal'' as any warm- or cold-blooded
animal which, at the time of transportation, is being kept as a pet in
a family household in the United States. The air transport of an animal
covers the
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entire period during which an animal is in the custody of an air
carrier, from check-in or delivery of the animal to the carrier prior
to departure until the animal is returned to the owner or guardian of
the animal at the final destination of the animal. Section 234.13 also
lists the information that is to be included in each report (e.g.,
carrier and flight number, date and time of the incident). However,
because section 234.13 is contained in Part 234 of Title 14 and that
part applies only to the domestic scheduled passenger flights of
carriers that account for at least 1 percent of domestic scheduled
passenger revenue (``reporting carriers''), there has been confusion
regarding which entities are required to submit a report to the ACPD on
incidents involving loss, injury, or death on an animal during air
transportation as well as which flights are covered (i.e., only
domestic scheduled passenger flights, or all scheduled passenger
flights, including international flights).
On August 10, 2010, Senators Richard Durbin, Robert Menendez, and
Joseph Lieberman wrote to the Secretary of Transportation urging the
Department to amend the rule so that airlines would be required to
report all incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of cats and
dogs that occur while they are traveling in an airline's care, custody,
or control, regardless of whether the cat or dog is being transported
as a pet by its owner or as part of a commercial shipment. In addition
to the letter, the Department received a petition for rulemaking on
this matter from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), an advocacy
group which works to protect the lives and advance the interest of
animals through the legal system. In its petition, ALDF requests that
the Department's regulation requiring the reporting of loss, injury, or
death of animals in air transport be revised to require airlines to
report any such incident involving animals they carry. It contends that
the data that are currently collected by the Department capture only
incidents affecting pets, even though pets make up only part of the
total number of animals transported by airlines. The ALDF's proposal
would apply to all species of animals, not just cats and dogs.
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
This NPRM proposes to expand the applicability of the rule to
require all U.S. carriers that operate scheduled service with at least
one aircraft with a design capacity of more than 60 passenger seats to
submit a report to the ACPD on any incidents involving the loss,
injury, or death of an animal during air transportation within 15 days
after the end of the month during which the incident occurred. Under
the current rule, most of the reports on incidents involving animals
during air transport have been submitted by ``reporting carriers,'' as
defined in 14 CFR 234.2. At the present time, there are 15 ``reporting
carriers.'' These airlines account for the vast majority of domestic
traffic. Nevertheless, we believe that it is important to expand the
requirement to all carriers that operate scheduled service with at
least one aircraft with a design capacity of more than 60 seats to
provide consumers and other interested parties a more complete picture
of the treatment of animals on scheduled passenger flights. By
expanding the applicability from the reporting carriers (i.e., U.S.
carriers that account for at least 1 percent of domestic scheduled
passenger revenue) to U.S. carriers that operate domestic or
international scheduled passenger service with at least one aircraft
with more than 60 seats, we would be requiring reports of loss, injury
or death of an animal from 36 carriers instead of only 15 carriers.
These 36 carriers carry about 99.6 percent of domestic passengers and
98 percent of international passengers that travel on U.S. airlines.
Consistent with section 605 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act
(RFA), 5 U.S.C. 605(b), as amended by the Small Business Regulatory
Enforcement and Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), we are not proposing to
expand this rule to carriers that operate scheduled service with only
aircraft that have a design capacity of 60 seats or less as these
carriers are considered small businesses.\1\ We invite comment on
whether there is any benefit to expanding the applicability of the rule
any further to encompass more U.S. carriers. We are not considering
expanding the requirement to report on the loss, injury or death of
animals to foreign air carriers that operate flights to and from the
U.S. or to charter flights, as Congress mandated the reporting of such
information only by U.S.-flag airlines that operate scheduled passenger
service. However, we are aware of an indirect cargo air carrier
operating under the provisions of Part 296 of the Department's
regulations that specializes in providing air transportation only to
pets. We seek comment on whether the reporting requirements should
apply to such entities.
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\1\ DOT defines small carriers based on the standard published
in 14 CFR 399.73: ``For the purposes of the Department's
implementation of chapter 6 of title 5, United State Code
(Regulatory Flexibility Act), a direct air carrier or foreign air
carrier is a small business if it provides air transportation only
with small aircraft as defined in Sec. 298.3 of this chapter (up to
60 seats/18,000 pound payload capacity).''
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The existing rule defines an animal as a pet in a family household.
The NPRM proposes to expand this definition to include cats and dogs
that are part of a commercial shipment. More specifically, the NPRM
proposes to retain that portion of the definition of ``animal'' that
refers to any warm- or cold-blooded animal which, at the time of
transportation, is being kept as a pet in a family household in the
United States and add to this definition ``and any dog or cat which, at
the time of transportation, is shipped as part of a commercial shipment
on a scheduled passenger flight.''
We are proposing this expansion in the definition of an animal
because dogs and cats that are being shipped on scheduled passenger
flights other than as pets by their owners are likely being transported
for the purpose of being sold as a pet in a family household in the
United States. Moreover, based on the data we collected of loss, injury
or death of household pets transported in commercial aviation from May
2005 to November 2011, we found that virtually all of the reports of
deaths (95%), injuries (100%), and loss (98%) involved cats and dogs.
Nevertheless, we seek comment on whether the definition of an animal
should be expanded further to include not only dogs and cats in
commercial shipments but all species of animals in commercial air
transportation. We are seeking comment, rather than proposing specific
language, on expanding the definition of an animal to apply to all
species of animals, as suggested by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. We
are not proposing language at this time for two reasons. First, the
overwhelming majority of losses, injuries, and deaths of household pets
reported to DOT by airlines have involved cats and dogs. Second, the
legislative history of AIR-21 does not appear to show an intent to
require reporting of incidents involving commercial shipment of animals
such as fish and birds that are being shipped from breeders/wholesalers
to retailers. The rule would continue not to cover animals that
accompany a passenger at his or her seat in the cabin as the air
carrier does not take custody of such animals. In any event, the
likelihood of the loss, injury, or death of such animals is very
minimal.
We further propose in this NPRM to require each covered carrier to
provide in its December report a summary of the total number of animal
losses, injuries, and deaths and the total number of
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animals transported for the calendar year. Thus, each covered carrier
would be required to file a report for the month of December even if
the carrier did not experience any incidents involving animals and/or
carried no animals during that month or even that year. We seek comment
on requiring carriers to report the total number of animals transported
during that year. We believe the additional requirement of reporting
the number of animals transported may be important for providing a
complete picture of a covered carrier's animal transport record, as the
number of animals transported by each airline may vary widely. If we
were to gather this data from the airlines, we would use it to
calculate rates of animal loss, injury and death per unit of animals
transported for each airline (e.g., 1.04 deaths per 10,000 animals
transported) and include this information in our published animal
incident reports. Without this information, consumers and others will
not be able to compare the rate of animal incidents from one carrier to
another or one year to another.
We ask commenters to provide the following information to assist
our consideration of the question of requiring carriers to report the
total number of animals transported. How many cats, dogs and other
household pets are currently transported per year on scheduled flights
of U.S. air carriers? Has this number been increasing or decreasing in
recent years? Are current procedures for tracking animal incidents
adequate for tracking the total number of animals transported? If yes,
then what additional annual costs would be involved for tracking the
total number of animals transported? If not, what new procedures would
need to be put in place? What exactly would be involved? In terms of
costs: What are the set-up costs for such a system? What are annual
costs of running it? Are the annual costs fixed or do they depend on
the number of animals transported? Please describe capital costs, labor
hours, and other costs separately.
In order to limit the burden on the covered carriers, we seek
comment on whether we should require covered carriers to report only
once per year in the December reports on the total number of animals
transported during the previous year, or whether the total number of
animals transported should be reported each month. We also solicit
comment on whether carriers should be required to file negative reports
even if the carrier did not have any incidents involving the loss,
injury, or death of an animal during a particular month or year --i.e.,
reporting ``0'' for any reporting category where there were no such
incidents. Negative reports would require carriers to affirmatively
certify that there were no reportable animal incidents during that
period; they are an additional incentive to ensure that the reports are
complete and accurate. We also invite interested persons to comment on
whether the Department should continue not requiring carriers to file
negative monthly reports of animal incidents (i.e., not requiring
reports stating there were no incidents of death, loss, or injury of an
animal).
The Department is seeking comment on these issues. Our final action
will be based on the comments and supporting evidence filed in this
docket and on our own analysis.
Regulatory Analyses and Notices
A. Executive Order 13563 and 12866 and DOT Regulatory Policies and
Procedures
Executive Orders 13563 and 12866 direct agencies to assess all
costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public
health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). Executive
Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and
benefits, of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting
flexibility.
This action has been determined not to be significant under
Executive Order 12866 and DOT's Regulatory Policies and Procedures and
was not reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The
costs associated with this rule would be minimal.
1. Cost of Monthly Reports Other Than December Report
The cost of filing monthly reports would be minimal. Aside from the
December report, a carrier would be required to report only during the
months where the carrier experiences a reportable animal incident.
Currently, 15 of the 36 carriers that would be affected are already
required to collect information on incidents involving the loss,
injury, or death of an animal. For these 15 carriers, who account for
approximately 90 percent of the domestic market, there would be no
additional costs. For the 21 other carriers who do not currently have
to report, the cost would vary depending on whether or not there is a
reportable incident during any given month. For example, if a carrier
experiences no reportable incidents all year, then the recurrent cost
of filing monthly reports for January to November is $0. However, if
the carrier experiences a reportable incident every month of the year,
the cost would be $401.52. This is based on our estimate that it would
take a Paralegal working in scheduled air transportation making $33.46
(the average wage rate plus benefits) one hour to prepare and submit
one monthly report. So, if all 21 carriers, who do not currently have
to report, each experience a reportable incident every month of the
year, the total cost would be $8,431.92. Therefore, the cost of monthly
reports would be between $0 and $8,431.92 per year depending on the
number of reportable incidents. Even the high estimate would still be a
minimal cost.
2. Cost of the December Report
All covered carriers would be required to submit a December report.
However, the burden on covered carriers to submit a December report
that includes the total number of animals that were lost, injured, or
died during air transport would be minimal. This report would merely be
an arithmetic total of the values in any report that a covered carrier
filed throughout the year.
3. Cost of Expanded Definition of an Animal
The cost of the proposed expanded definition of an animal would
impact airlines, but the cost would still be minimal. Since 2006, the
average number of reported incidents per year is 46. If we were to
assume that it takes a Paralegal one hour to prepare and submit a
report per incident, then we have estimated that the cost to the
industry is $1540 per year. This is based on our estimate of a
Paralegal's salary discussed above. Various trade sources indicate that
dogs and cats transported as part of a commercial shipment may account
for as much as half of all dogs, cats, and other household pets that
are transported by covered carriers. If we were to assume that
expanding the definition to include dogs and cats transported as part
of a commercial shipment would result in an additional 46 reported
incidents per year (i.e., a total of 92 incidents), the additional cost
of $1540 is still minimal.
The benefits of the rule, while difficult to quantify, exceed the
costs. Good data are not immediately available as to the total number
of animals that air carriers currently transport. Neither trade
associations for animal transportation providers nor airlines collect
data on the number of animals transported annually by air. Trade
association (e.g., pet transportation
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firms) and industry (airlines) sources estimate the actual number of
pets that carriers transport annually at up to 800,000. This proposal
would provide consumers with a fuller picture of the safety record of
airlines in the transportation of animals. If the benefit of expanding
reporting requirements to dogs and cats transported as a commercial
shipment were as little as a cent per animal shipped, the benefits of
the rule would exceed the costs.
A copy of the preliminary regulatory evaluation has been placed in
the docket. We invite comment on the quantification of costs and
benefits for this proposed requirement, as well as the methodology used
to develop our cost and benefit estimates. We also seek comment on how
unquantified costs and benefits could be measured.
B. Regulatory Flexibility Act
Pursuant to section 605 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5
U.S.C. 605(b), as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement
and Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), I certify that this rulemaking would
not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities. The NPRM would impose no new duties or obligations on small
entities. As discussed above, consistent with the RFA, as amended by
the SBREFA, we are not proposing to expand this rule to carriers that
operate scheduled service with only aircraft that have a design
capacity of 60 seats or less as these carriers are considered small
businesses.
C. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
This action would not have a substantial direct effect on the
States, on the relationship between the national Government and the
States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the
various levels of government, and therefore will not have federalism
implications.
D. Executive Order 13084
This notice has been analyzed in accordance with the principles and
criteria contained in Executive Order 13084 (``Consultation and
Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments''). Because the provision
on which we are seeking comment would not significantly or uniquely
affect the communities of the Indian tribal governments or impose
substantial direct compliance costs on them, the funding and
consultation requirements of Executive Order 13084 do not apply.
E. Paperwork Reduction Act
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, (Pub. L.
104-13, 49 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Department is seeking to renew
with change the information collection titled ``Reports by Carriers on
Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport'' (OMB No. 2105-055).
This information collection expired on June 6, 2011. This NPRM proposes
to modify the information collection requirement. Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act, before an agency submits a proposed collection of
information to OMB for approval, it must publish a document in the
Federal Register providing notice of the proposed collection of
information and a 60-day comment period, and must otherwise consult
with members of the public and affected agencies concerning the
proposed collection.
The collection of information proposed in the NPRM is a requirement
that U.S. carriers that operate scheduled passenger service with at
least one aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more than 60
passenger seats report to the Department's ACPD any incidents involving
the loss, injury, or death during air transport of cats and dogs that
were part of a commercial shipment. (Cats and dogs that were being kept
as a household pet at the time of such a loss, injury, or death are
already required to be reported by these airlines.) As discussed above,
this requirement would expand the reporting requirement from 15
carriers to 36 carriers, an increase of 21 carriers. We also propose to
require covered carriers to state in their report for the month of
December the total number of animals that were lost, injured, or died
during air transport. We solicit comment on whether we should also
require carriers to provide information about the total number of
animals transported in the calendar year.
Title: Reports by Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During
Air Transport.
OMB Control Number: 2105-0552.
Type of Request: Modification of expired Information Collection
Request.
Respondents: U.S. carriers that operate scheduled passenger service
with at least one aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more
than 60 seats (36).
Frequency: For each respondent, one information set for the month
of December, plus one information set during some months (1 to 12).
Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 36 to 432 hours
(Respondents [36] x Frequency [1 to 12 per year]).
Comments are invited on: (1) The necessity and utility of the
information collection, (2) the accuracy of the estimate of the burden,
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
collection without reducing the quality of the collected information.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized or
included, or both, in the request for OMB approval of these information
collections.
F. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
The Department has determined that the requirements of Title II of
the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 do not apply to this
rulemaking.
Issued this 22nd day of June 2012, in Washington, DC.
Robert S. Rivkin,
General Counsel.
List of Subjects in Parts 234 and 235
Air carrier, Animal incidents, Consumer protection, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Department of
Transportation proposes to amend 14 CFR chapter II as follows:
PART 234--AIRLINE SERVICE QUALITY PERFORMANCE REPORTS
1. The authority citation for part 234 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 329 and Sections 41708 and 41709.
2. Section 234.13 is removed.
Sec. 234.13 [Removed]
3. A new part 235 is added to read as follows:
PART 235--REPORTS BY AIR CARRIERS ON INCIDENTS INVOLVING ANIMALS
DURING AIR TRANSPORT
Sec.
235.1 Definitions.
235.2 Applicability.
235.3 Reports by air carriers on incidents involving animals during
air transport.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 41721.
Sec. 235.1 Definitions.
For the purposes of this part:
Air transport includes the entire period during which an animal is
in the custody of an air carrier, from the time that the animal is
tendered to the air carrier prior to departure until the air carrier
tenders the animal to the owner, guardian or representative of the
shipper of the animal at the animal's final destination. It does not
include animals that accompany a passenger at his or her seat in the
cabin and of which the air carrier does not take custody.
Animal means any warm or cold blooded animal which, at the time of
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transportation, is being kept as a pet in a family household in the
United States and any dog or cat which, at the time of transportation,
is shipped as part of a commercial shipment on a scheduled passenger
flight, including shipments by trainers and breeders.
Sec. 235.2 Applicability.
This part applies to the scheduled domestic and international
passenger service of any U.S. air carrier that operates such service
with at least one aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more
than 60 passenger seats.
Sec. 235.3 Reports by air carriers on incidents involving animals
during air transport.
(a) Each covered carrier shall, within 15 days after the end of the
month to which the information applies, submit to the United States
Department of Transportation's Aviation Consumer Protection Division a
report on any incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an
animal during air transport provided by the air carrier, including
incidents on flights by that carrier that are operated with aircraft
having 60 or fewer seats. The report shall be made in the form and
manner set forth in reporting directives issued by the Deputy General
Counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation and shall contain the
following information:
(1) Carrier and flight number;
(2) Date and time of the incident;
(3) Description of the animal, including name, if applicable;
(4) Name and contact information of the owner(s), guardian and/or
shipper of the animal;
(5) Narrative description of the incident;
(6) Narrative description of the cause of the incident;
(7) Narrative description of any corrective action taken in
response to the incident; and
(8) Name, title, address, and telephone number of the individual
filing the report on behalf of the air carrier.
(b) Within 15 days after the end of December of each year, each
covered carrier shall submit the following information (this
information may be included in any report that the carrier may file for
the loss, injury, or death of animals during the month of December):
(1) The total number of incidents involving an animal during air
transport provided by the air carrier for the entire calendar year,
including incidents on flights by that carrier that are operated with
aircraft having 60 or fewer seats. The report shall include subtotals
for loss, injury, and death of animals. Report ``0'' for any category
for which there were no such incidents. If the carrier had no
reportable incidents for that calendar year, it shall report ``0'' in
each category.
(2) The December report must contain the following certification
signed by your authorized representative: ``I, the undersigned, do
certify that this report has been prepared under my direction in
accordance with the regulations in 14 CFR Part 235. I affirm that, to
the best of my knowledge and belief, this is a true, correct and
complete report.''
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