[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26340-26341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12154]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Transportation Statistics Bureau
[Docket ID Number: DOT-OST-2014-0031]
Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; Part
249, Preservation of Records
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST-R), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for extension of currently approved collections. The ICR
describes the nature of the information collection and its expected
burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following collection of information was
published on March 28, 2018. Eleven comments were received. None
pertained to this Information Collection Request and will not be
addressed by the Department at this time.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted by July 6, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Gorham, Office of Airline
Information, RTS-42, Room E34-414, OST-R, BTS, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone Number (202) 366-4406, Fax
Number (202) 366-3383 or EMAIL [email protected].
Comments: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725--17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: OST Desk Officer.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Approval No. 2138-0006.
Title: Preservation of Air carrier Records--14 CFR part 249.
Form No.: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Certificated air carriers and charter operators.
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Number of Respondents: 90 certificated air carriers and 300 charter
operators.
Estimated Time per Response: 3 hours per certificated air carrier 1
hour per charter operator.
Total Annual Burden: 570 hours.
Needs and Uses: Part 249 requires the retention of records such as:
General and subsidiary ledgers, journals and journal vouchers, voucher
distribution registers, accounts receivable and payable journals and
legers, subsidy records documenting underlying financial and
statistical reports to DOT, funds reports, consumer records, sales
reports, auditors' and flight coupons, air waybills, etc. Depending on
the nature of the document, the carrier may be required to retain the
document for a period of 30 days to 3 years. Public charter operators
and overseas military personnel charter operators must retain documents
which evidence or reflect deposits made by each charter participant and
commissions received by, paid to, or deducted by travel agents, and all
statements, invoices, bills and receipts from suppliers or furnishers
of goods and services in connection with the tour or charter. These
records are retained for 6 months after completion of the charter
program.
Not only is it imperative that carriers and charter operators
retain source documentation, but it is critical that we ensure that DOT
has access to these records. Given DOT's established information needs
for such reports, the underlying support documentation must be retained
for a reasonable period of time. Absent the retention requirements, the
support for such reports may or may not exist for audit/validation
purposes and the relevance and usefulness of the carrier submissions
would be impaired, since the data could not be verified to the source
on a test basis.
The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency
Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires a statistical agency to
clearly identify information it collects for non-statistical purposes.
BTS hereby notifies the respondents and the public that BTS uses the
information it collects under this OMB approval for non-statistical
purposes including, but not limited to, publication of both
Respondent's identity and its data, submission of the information to
agencies outside BTS for review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative matters.
Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed record retention
requirements are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the Department. Comments should address whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of
the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and
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 May 31, 2018.
William Chadwick Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2018-12154 Filed 6-5-18; 8:45 am]
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