[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 17, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 41930-41931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17368]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 137 / Tuesday, July 17, 2012 /
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 25
[Docket No. FAA-2012-0714]
Bleed Air Cleaning and Monitoring Equipment and Technology
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
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SUMMARY: The FAA seeks information from industry developers,
manufacturers, and the public related to effective air cleaning
technology and sensor technology for the engine and auxiliary power
unit bleed air supplied to the passenger cabin and flight deck of a
pressurized aircraft. The information obtained will inform the agency
of potential research and development plans.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 17,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Send comments identified by docket number FAA-2012-0714
using any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for sending your
comments electronically.
Mail: Send comments to Docket Operations, M-30; U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room
W12-140, West Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: Take comments to Docket
Operations in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: Fax comments to Docket Operations at 202-493-2251.
Privacy: The FAA will post all comments it receives, without
change, to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information the commenter provides. Using the search function of the
docket web site, anyone can find and read the electronic form of all
comments received into any FAA dockets, including the name of the
individual sending the comment (or signing the comment for an
association, business, labor union, etc.). DOT's complete Privacy Act
Statement can be found in the Federal Register published on April 11,
2000 (65 FR 19477-19478), as well as at http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: Background documents or comments received may be read at
http://www.regulations.gov at any time. Follow the online instructions
for accessing the docket or Docket Operations in Room W12-140 of the
West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions concerning this action,
contact Jim Knight, Research Planning Division, AVP-300, Office of
Accident Investigation and Prevention, Federal Aviation Administration,
800 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 493-
5634, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 917 of the approved FAA Modernization and Reform Act of
2012, H.R. Bill 658, requires the FAA to identify bleed air
purification technology. Specifically, the FAA seeks information about
bleed air cleaning, and contaminant detection and recording
technologies which are capable of removing oil-based contaminants from
the bleed air supplied to the passenger cabin and flight deck, and
detecting and recording oil-based contaminants in the total air
supplied to the passenger cabin and flight deck from bleed air.
The FAA recognizes there are various design concepts used by both
developers and manufacturers of cabin air environmental control units.
Given the design and performance variation in these technologies, the
FAA seeks information from the industry to assist in its evaluation of
the types of air cleaning and monitoring technology that will
successfully detect, remove and report on engine-produced, oil-based
cabin air contaminants.
Request for Information
The FAA requests that the comments specifically address the
following areas to this notice:
Design and operational description
Physical dimensions of the device(s), including weight
Power, interconnect, and other installation requirements
Operational dimensions for the technology/system
Maintenance needs to assure system performance
Safety mechanisms designed into the technology/system to
minimize or mitigate anticipated hazards
For detection technologies, please identify:
Contaminants the device can detect and sensitivity for each
Location of the detection device placed in the air
distribution system
For air cleaning technologies, please identify:
Contaminants the device can remove
Overall system capacity
Cleaning effectiveness for each contaminant
Again, this information must be submitted by September 17, 2012.
Comments Invited
The FAA invites interested persons to submit written comments,
data, or views. The most helpful comments reference a specific area of
concern, explain the reason for any recommended change, and include
supporting data. To ensure the docket does not contain duplicate
comments, commenters should send only one copy of written comments, or
if comments are filed electronically, commenters should submit only one
time.
The FAA will file in the docket all comments it receives, as well
as a report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA
personnel concerning this notice. The FAA will consider all comments it
receives on or before the closing date for comments. The FAA will
consider comments filed after the comment period has closed if it is
possible to do so without incurring expense or delay.
Proprietary or Confidential Business Information: Commenters should
not file proprietary or confidential business information in the
docket. Such information must be sent or delivered directly to the
person identified in the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document, and marked as
proprietary or confidential. If submitting information on a disk or CD-
ROM, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM, and identify
electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific information that
is proprietary or confidential.
Under 14 CFR 11.35(b), if the FAA is aware of proprietary
information filed with a comment, the agency does not place it in the
docket. It is held in a separate file to which the public does not have
access, and the FAA places a note in the docket that it has received
it. If the FAA receives a request to examine or copy this information,
it treats it as any other request under the Freedom of Information Act
(5 U.S.C. 552). The FAA processes such a request under Department of
Transportation procedures found in 49 CFR part 7.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 6, 2012.
Wendell L. Griffin,
Deputy Director, Office of Accident Investigation and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-17368 Filed 7-16-12; 8:45 am]
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