Confidential Business Information Reporting Requirements, 7525-7526 [2015-02665]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathy DePaepe at (405) 954–9362, or by
email at: Kathy.DePaepe@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2120–0684.
Title: Fractional Aircraft Ownership
Programs.
Form Numbers: There are no FAA
forms associated with this collection.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of an information collection.
Background: The Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on December 4, 2014 (79 FR 72056).
Each fractional ownership program
manager and each fractional owner must
comply with the requirements of 14 CFR
part 91, subpart K. Information is used
to determine if these entities are
operating in accordance with the
minimum safety standards of these
regulations. The FAA will use the
information it reviews and collects to
evaluate the effectiveness of the
program and make improvements as
needed, and ensure compliance and
adherence to regulations.
Respondents: 11 fractional aircraft
program managers/operators.
Frequency: Information is collected
on occasion.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 46 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
19,609 hours.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 4,
2015.
Albert R. Spence,
FAA Assistant Information Collection
Clearance Officer, IT Enterprises Business
Services Division, ASP–110.
[FR Doc. 2015–02651 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
[Docket ID Number DOT–OST–2014–0031]
Confidential Business Information
Reporting Requirements
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), DOT.
ACTION: Request for Public Comments.
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AGENCY:
Pursuant to the Department’s
regulations, certain air carriers are
required to file BTS Schedule B–7
(Airframe and Aircraft Engine
Acquisitions and Retirements) and
Schedule B–43 (Inventory of Airframes
and Aircraft Engines). Under the
Department’s regulations, the
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Department can withhold confidential
business information if release of the
confidential information is likely to
cause substantial competitive harm to
the entity that submitted the
information to the Department. The BTS
routinely grants, based on the sensitive
nature of this cost data, a ten-year
confidentiality period. After receiving
notification that, upon the expiration of
the ten-year confidentiality period, the
BTS intended to release the cost data,
the United Parcel Service Co. (UPS) and
United Air Lines, Inc. (United) filed
objections to the pending release. Both
UPS and United claimed that the cost
data, although ten years old, remained
sensitive and its release would result in
competitive harm. The cost data is now
20 years old.
BTS is seeking public comments on
the merits of the UPS and United
positions and views on whether the BTS
should increase the confidentiality
period for certain airframe and aircraft
engine cost data.
DATES: Comments must be received by
April 13, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Gorham, Office of Airline Information,
RTS–42, Room E34, BTS, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590–0001, Telephone Number (202)
366–4406, Fax Number (202) 366–3383
or EMAIL jeff.gorham@dot.gov
Request for Public Comments
We are inviting public comments on
the UPS and United requests and views
on whether BTS’ confidentiality period
should be retained or amended. Based
on the public comments and a review of
the requests to extend the
confidentiality period, BTS will
consider retaining or amending its
confidentiality period.
We are posing a series of questions in
the hope that the public comments will
address several issues in particular:
(1) Do you use the airframe and
aircraft engine cost data required under
Part 241 and, if so, how do you use the
data elements?
(2) Should BTS amend or retain its
confidentiality period for airframe and
aircraft engine cost data?
(3) Should BTS change the manner in
which it collects these data elements?
(4) Would it be in the public interest
for BTS to grant the confidentiality
extension requests?
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
DOT–OST–2014–0031 by any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
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Mail: Docket Services: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202–366–3383.
Instructions: Identify docket number,
DOT–OST–2014–0031, at the beginning
of your comments, and send two copies.
To receive confirmation that DOT
received your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet
users may access all comments received
by DOT at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments are posted electronically
without charge or edits, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, 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 https://
DocketInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
Electronic Access: You may access
comments received for this notice at
https://www.regulations.gov, by
searching docket DOT–OST–2014–0031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to 14 CFR part 241, certain air carriers
are required to file BTS Schedule B–7
(Airframe and Aircraft Engine
Acquisitions and Retirements) and
Schedule B–43 (Inventory of Airframes
and Aircraft Engines). These schedules
contain cost data concerning airframes
and aircraft engines. In previous
confidentiality requests, UPS and
United requested and the Department
granted a ten-year period of
confidentiality for the cost data reported
on the Form 41, Schedules B–7 and B–
43.
Prior to the expiration of the ten-year
period, BTS informed twelve air carriers
that, at the close of the ten-year period
(October 1, 2004), the agency intended
to release the information. In a
September 14, 2004 letter, UPS filed
objections to the release and, in a
September 23, 2004 letter, United also
filed objections to the release (see BTS
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Docket No. 2004–19380). Both UPS and
United claim that the information,
although ten years old, is so sensitive
that each company would suffer
‘‘competitive harm’’ if the BTS releases
the information.
In its letter, UPS maintains that the
information is still ‘‘commercially
sensitive’’ based on three main points:
(1) Disclosure of the data diminishes
competition among the major aircraft
manufacturers; engine manufacturers,
and new and used aircraft owners and
lessors who can use the commercially
sensitive data to closely track UPS’
acquisition and retirement costs; (2)
disclosure of the data impairs
competition among competing domestic
and foreign airlines in the international
arena, because United States airlines are
required to reveal major elements of
their cost structures when their foreign
competitors are not; and (3) the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) has determined that these data
should be withheld from public
disclosure.
In addition, UPS requested that the
Department withhold the information
under Exemptions 3 and 4 of the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (See
5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3) and 4)). Exemption 3
allows the withholding of information if
the disclosure is prohibited by another
statute and the statute either: ‘‘(A)
requires that the matters be withheld
from the public in such a manner as to
leave no discretion on the issue, or (B)
establishes particular criteria for
withholding or refers to particular types
of matters to be withheld;’’ (see 5 U.S.C.
552(b)(3)). UPS stated that a provision
in the United States Code (see 49 U.S.C.
40115) qualifies as an Exemption 3
statute in that the statute allows the
Department to order certain information
withheld from public disclosure if the
disclosure would ‘‘have an adverse
effect on the competitive position of an
air carrier in foreign air transportation.’’
(See 49 U.S.C. 40115(a)(2)(B)).
In light of its objections, UPS
requested that ‘‘the Department
continue to afford confidential
treatment to Form 41, Schedules B–7
and B–43 and that such confidential
treatment be continued indefinitely or,
at a minimum, for [another] ten (10)
years.’’
United requested an extension based
on the fact that prices have changed
little since the 1992 to 1996 period.
According to United, its ‘‘747s delivered
in 1994 . . . have aircraft/engine prices
which are the same as the prices of the
later delivered 747s, except for some
minor changes due to price escalation
provisions and any minor configuration
changes.’’ United also claimed that
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Exemptions 3 and 4 of FOIA protected
this information from disclosure. United
also cited the fact that the SEC had
provided a period of confidentiality for
this information. Thus, United
requested that the BTS extend its period
of confidentiality until December 31,
2006, the expiration date for the SEC
confidentiality period.
Ten years have passed since the
initial confidential treatment period,
and BTS is again asking whether we
should increase the confidentiality
period for certain airframe and aircraft
engine cost data, or release the data to
the public.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 5,
2015.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Renewal Without
Change of Bank Secrecy Act
Suspicious Activity Reporting
Requirement for Residential Mortgage
Lenders and Originators
Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (‘‘FinCEN’’), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
FinCEN invites all interested
parties to comment on its proposed
renewal without change of the Bank
Secrecy Act (‘‘BSA’’) Suspicious
Activity Reporting requirements for
residential mortgage lenders and
originators. FinCEN intends to submit
this requirement for approval by the
Office of Management and Budget
(‘‘OMB’’) of a three-year extension of
Control Number 1506–0061. This
request for comments is made pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act
(‘‘PRA’’) of 1995, Public Law 104–13, 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before April 13, 2015 to
be assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Policy Division,
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,
U.S Department of the Treasury, P.O.
Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183. Attention:
PRA Comments—BSA Suspicious
Activity Reporting Requirement for
residential mortgage lenders and
originators. Comments also may be
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submitted by electronic mail to the
following Internet address:
regcomments@fincen.gov with the
caption in the body of the text,
‘‘Attention: PRA Comments—BSA
Suspicious Activity Reporting
Requirements 1506–0061.’’ It is
preferable for comments to be submitted
by electronic mail. Please submit
comments by one method only. All
submissions received must include the
agency name and the specific OMB
control number for this notice.
Inspection of comments. Comments
may be inspected, between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m., in the FinCEN reading room in
Vienna, VA. Persons wishing to inspect
the comments submitted must request
an appointment with the Disclosure
Officer by telephoning (703) 905–5034
(not a toll free call).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
FinCEN Resource Center at 800–767–
2825 or email frc@fincen.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BSA,
Titles I and II of Public Law 91–508, as
amended, codified at 12 U.S.C. 1829(b),
12 U.S.C.1951–1959, and 31 U.S.C.
5311–5332, authorizes the Secretary of
the Treasury, among other things, to
require financial institutions to keep
records and file reports that are
determined to have a high degree of
usefulness in criminal, tax, and
regulatory matters, or in the conduct of
intelligence or counter-intelligence
activities to protect against international
terrorism, and to implement countermoney laundering programs and
compliance procedures.1
Regulations implementing Title II of
the BSA appear at 31 CFR Chapter X.
The authority of the Secretary of the
Treasury to administer the BSA has
been delegated to the Director of
FinCEN. The information collected and
retained under the regulation addressed
in this notice assists Federal, state, and
local law enforcement as well as
regulatory authorities in the
identification, investigation, and
prosecution of money laundering and
other matters. In accordance with the
requirements of the PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), and its implementing
regulations, the following information is
presented concerning the recordkeeping
requirements listed below.
Title: Suspicious Activity Report by
Residential Mortgage Lenders and
Originators.
OMB Number: 1506–0061.
1 Language expanding the scope of the Bank
Secrecy Act to intelligence or counter-intelligence
activities to protect against international terrorism
was added by Section 358 of the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
Act of 2001, P.L. 107–56.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
[Docket ID Number DOT-OST-2014-0031]
Confidential Business Information Reporting Requirements
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST-R), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), DOT.
ACTION: Request for Public Comments.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Department's regulations, certain air carriers
are required to file BTS Schedule B-7 (Airframe and Aircraft Engine
Acquisitions and Retirements) and Schedule B-43 (Inventory of Airframes
and Aircraft Engines). Under the Department's regulations, the
Department can withhold confidential business information if release of
the confidential information is likely to cause substantial competitive
harm to the entity that submitted the information to the Department.
The BTS routinely grants, based on the sensitive nature of this cost
data, a ten-year confidentiality period. After receiving notification
that, upon the expiration of the ten-year confidentiality period, the
BTS intended to release the cost data, the United Parcel Service Co.
(UPS) and United Air Lines, Inc. (United) filed objections to the
pending release. Both UPS and United claimed that the cost data,
although ten years old, remained sensitive and its release would result
in competitive harm. The cost data is now 20 years old.
BTS is seeking public comments on the merits of the UPS and United
positions and views on whether the BTS should increase the
confidentiality period for certain airframe and aircraft engine cost
data.
DATES: Comments must be received by April 13, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Gorham, Office of Airline
Information, RTS-42, Room E34, BTS, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone Number (202) 366-4406, Fax Number
(202) 366-3383 or EMAIL jeff.gorham@dot.gov
Request for Public Comments
We are inviting public comments on the UPS and United requests and
views on whether BTS' confidentiality period should be retained or
amended. Based on the public comments and a review of the requests to
extend the confidentiality period, BTS will consider retaining or
amending its confidentiality period.
We are posing a series of questions in the hope that the public
comments will address several issues in particular:
(1) Do you use the airframe and aircraft engine cost data required
under Part 241 and, if so, how do you use the data elements?
(2) Should BTS amend or retain its confidentiality period for
airframe and aircraft engine cost data?
(3) Should BTS change the manner in which it collects these data
elements?
(4) Would it be in the public interest for BTS to grant the
confidentiality extension requests?
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
DOT-OST-2014-0031 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Services: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202-366-3383.
Instructions: Identify docket number, DOT-OST-2014-0031, at the
beginning of your comments, and send two copies. To receive
confirmation that DOT received your comments, include a self-addressed
stamped postcard. Internet users may access all comments received by
DOT at https://www.regulations.gov. All comments are posted
electronically without charge or edits, including any personal
information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, 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 https://DocketInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov. or the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
dockets.
Electronic Access: You may access comments received for this notice
at https://www.regulations.gov, by searching docket DOT-OST-2014-0031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 14 CFR part 241, certain air
carriers are required to file BTS Schedule B-7 (Airframe and Aircraft
Engine Acquisitions and Retirements) and Schedule B-43 (Inventory of
Airframes and Aircraft Engines). These schedules contain cost data
concerning airframes and aircraft engines. In previous confidentiality
requests, UPS and United requested and the Department granted a ten-
year period of confidentiality for the cost data reported on the Form
41, Schedules B-7 and B-43.
Prior to the expiration of the ten-year period, BTS informed twelve
air carriers that, at the close of the ten-year period (October 1,
2004), the agency intended to release the information. In a September
14, 2004 letter, UPS filed objections to the release and, in a
September 23, 2004 letter, United also filed objections to the release
(see BTS
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Docket No. 2004-19380). Both UPS and United claim that the information,
although ten years old, is so sensitive that each company would suffer
``competitive harm'' if the BTS releases the information.
In its letter, UPS maintains that the information is still
``commercially sensitive'' based on three main points: (1) Disclosure
of the data diminishes competition among the major aircraft
manufacturers; engine manufacturers, and new and used aircraft owners
and lessors who can use the commercially sensitive data to closely
track UPS' acquisition and retirement costs; (2) disclosure of the data
impairs competition among competing domestic and foreign airlines in
the international arena, because United States airlines are required to
reveal major elements of their cost structures when their foreign
competitors are not; and (3) the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) has determined that these data should be withheld from public
disclosure.
In addition, UPS requested that the Department withhold the
information under Exemptions 3 and 4 of the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) (See 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3) and 4)). Exemption 3 allows the
withholding of information if the disclosure is prohibited by another
statute and the statute either: ``(A) requires that the matters be
withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on
the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or
refers to particular types of matters to be withheld;'' (see 5 U.S.C.
552(b)(3)). UPS stated that a provision in the United States Code (see
49 U.S.C. 40115) qualifies as an Exemption 3 statute in that the
statute allows the Department to order certain information withheld
from public disclosure if the disclosure would ``have an adverse effect
on the competitive position of an air carrier in foreign air
transportation.'' (See 49 U.S.C. 40115(a)(2)(B)).
In light of its objections, UPS requested that ``the Department
continue to afford confidential treatment to Form 41, Schedules B-7 and
B-43 and that such confidential treatment be continued indefinitely or,
at a minimum, for [another] ten (10) years.''
United requested an extension based on the fact that prices have
changed little since the 1992 to 1996 period. According to United, its
``747s delivered in 1994 . . . have aircraft/engine prices which are
the same as the prices of the later delivered 747s, except for some
minor changes due to price escalation provisions and any minor
configuration changes.'' United also claimed that Exemptions 3 and 4 of
FOIA protected this information from disclosure. United also cited the
fact that the SEC had provided a period of confidentiality for this
information. Thus, United requested that the BTS extend its period of
confidentiality until December 31, 2006, the expiration date for the
SEC confidentiality period.
Ten years have passed since the initial confidential treatment
period, and BTS is again asking whether we should increase the
confidentiality period for certain airframe and aircraft engine cost
data, or release the data to the public.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2015.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2015-02665 Filed 2-9-15; 8:45 am]
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