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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0177]
Notice of Submission of Proposed
Information Collections to OMB;
Agency Request for Renewal of
Previously Approved Information
Collections: Nondiscrimination on the
Basis of Disability in Air Travel
Office of the Secretary (OST),
Department of Transportation
(Department or DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Department of
Transportation’s (Department or DOT)
intention to renew an Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control
number for certain information
collections. The collections involve
requirements for carriers to provide a
mechanism on their websites for
passengers to provide online
notification of their requests for
disability accommodation services and
for carriers to ensure that a disclaimer
is activated when a user clicks a link on
a primary website to embedded thirdparty software or an external website.
The disclaimer must inform the user
that the software/website in not within
the carrier’s control and may not follow
the same accessibility policies.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by June 18, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Docket No. DOT–OST–
2011–0177 through one of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
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Management Facility, U.S. Department
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Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
C. Wood, Office of the General Counsel,
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
202–366–9342 (Voice), 202–366–7152
(Fax), or john.wood@dot.gov (Email).
Arrangements to receive this document
in an alternative format may be made by
contacting the above-named individual.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2105–0571.
Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis
of Disability in Air Travel.
Type of Review: Renewal of
information collections.
Background: This notice covers two
information collection requirements in
the Department’s Air Carrier Access Act
(ACAA) implementing regulation, 14
CFR part 382 (part 382),
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of
Disability in Air Travel. Specifically,
pursuant to section 382.43(d), covered
carriers must provide an online
mechanism for passengers to request
disability accommodation services (e.g.,
enplaning/deplaning assistance, deaf/
hard of hearing communication
assistance, escort to service animal relief
area, etc.) for a particular flight.
Pursuant to section 382.43(e), covered
carriers must also ensure that when a
user activates a link on a carrier’s
primary website to embedded thirdparty software or to an external website,
a disclaimer is displayed notifying the
user that the application or website may
not be accessible. These requirements
became effective on December 12, 2015,
and December 12, 2016, respectively.
Covered carriers are U.S. and foreign air
carriers that operate at least one aircraft
having a designed seating capacity of
more than 60 passengers and own or
control a primary website that markets
passenger air transportation or a tour, or
tour component that must be purchased
with air transportation, to the general
public in the United States.1
1 While there are approximately 190 U.S. and
foreign air carriers that conduct passenger-carrying
service to, from, or in the United States with at least
one aircraft having a designed seating capacity of
more than 60 seats, not all of those carriers have
a primary website that markets passenger air
transportation to the general public in the U.S. The
Department estimates that approximately 165 of
those 190 carriers are subject to the Department’s
web-accessibility requirements as they operate such
aircraft and have a primary website that markets to
U.S. consumers.
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The title, a description of the
information collection and respondents,
and the periodic reporting burden are
set forth below for each of the
information collections:
1. Requirement to make a disability
accommodation service request function
available on the primary website. (14
CFR 382.43(d)).
Each covered carrier must provide a
mechanism on its website for passengers
to request a disability accommodation
service for a future flight and provide
advance notice of their request. Carriers
may, but need not, require passengers to
include contact information on the form
in order to follow-up and request more
specific information about the
passengers’ accommodation needs.
Carriers may also use the aggregate data
from the online service requests to
understand and better plan for the
volume and types of service requests
they receive across time periods and
routes, but also are not required to do
so. While the content and design of the
online service request form is up to the
carriers, the Department anticipates that
each covered U.S. and foreign carrier
that markets scheduled air
transportation to the general public in
the United States would incur initial
costs associated with developing and
reviewing a design and implementation
plan for the request form, developing,
coding, and integrating the form into the
website, as well as testing, debugging,
and connecting the form with a backend
database to store the information. The
final regulatory analysis (FRA) for the
final rule entitled Nondiscrimination on
the Basis of Disability in Air Travel:
Accessibility of Websites and
Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airports
estimated that it will take an average of
32 labor hours per carrier to develop,
implement, integrate, connect, and test
the online request form. Initial costs are
reduced for carriers that rely on a
request form developed by another
entity. There are no recordkeeping or
reporting requirements. However,
carriers should use the service request
information to facilitate appropriate,
timely assistance to their passengers.
Respondents: Certificated U.S. and
foreign air carriers operating to, from,
and within the United States that
operate at least one aircraft having a
seating capacity of more than 60
passengers and own or control a
primary website that markets air
transportation to the general public in
the U.S.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of which
the Department expects all to have
achieved compliance with the
requirement in a prior year. The
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Department estimates that each year
there will be 3 new respondent carriers.
Estimated Annual Burden on
Respondents: 0 hours per carrier
compliant in a prior year, unless the
carrier voluntarily elects to modify or
improve its form, and 32 hours per
carrier creating an online request form.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 96
hours. This estimate was calculated by
multiplying the total number of labor
hours per year that a carrier is estimated
to spend to develop, implement,
integrate, connect, and test the online
request form (32) by the estimated
number of new respondent carriers each
year (3).
Frequency: One-time requirement.
2. Requirement to provide a
disclaimer notice to users when clicking
a link on a primary website to
embedded third-party software or an
external website. (14 CFR 382.43(e)).
Carriers must provide a disclaimer
notice for each link on their primary
website that enables a user to access
software or an external website that is
not in the carrier’s control. The
disclaimer notice must be activated the
first time a user clicks the link and must
notify the user that the application/
website is not within the carrier’s
control and may not follow the same
accessibility policies as the primary
website. The Department anticipates
that each covered U.S. and foreign
carrier will incur costs associated with
identifying all links on their websites
that may require a disclaimer such as
developing and reviewing the design
and language for the disclaimer notice,
as well as developing, testing, and
deploying the code to the appropriate
web pages.
The incremental labor hours
associated with providing the required
disclaimer may vary depending on the
number of links on the website to which
this requirement applies. The FRA
estimated that it will take an average of
6 labor hours per carrier to identify the
links and then develop, test, and deploy
the disclaimer notice on the website. We
also estimate that it will take less than
30 minutes per year for a carrier to
associate the notice with any new links
to external websites or third-party
software added to their websites.
Respondents: Certificated U.S. and
foreign air carriers operating to, from,
and within the United States that
operate at least one aircraft having a
seating capacity of more than 60
passengers and own or control a
primary website that markets air
transportation to the general public in
the U.S.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of which
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the Department expects all to have
achieved compliance with the
requirement in a prior year. The
Department estimates that each year
there will be 3 new respondent carriers.
Estimated Annual Burden on
Respondents: 6 hours for carriers to
create, test, and deploy the disclaimer.
30 minutes for carriers compliant in
prior years to associate the notice with
new links and third-party software.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
100.5 hours. This estimate was
calculated by multiplying the total
number of labor hours per year that a
carrier is estimated to spend to develop,
test, and deploy the online request form
(6) by the estimated number of new
respondent carriers each year (3). To
that total we added the product of the
number of hours that we estimated
carriers may spend associating the
notice with new weblinks (.5 hours) and
the number of carriers that are expected
to have achieved compliance in a prior
year (165).
Frequency: One-time and recurrent
requirements.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the
Department’s performance; (b) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c)
ways for the Department to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways
that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. The agency will
summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
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2018.
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Enforcement and Proceedings.
room 542, 1800 G Street NW,
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begin at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on May 8th and
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2011-0177]
Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collections to OMB;
Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information
Collections: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation
(Department or DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Department of Transportation's (Department or DOT)
intention to renew an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control
number for certain information collections. The collections involve
requirements for carriers to provide a mechanism on their websites for
passengers to provide online notification of their requests for
disability accommodation services and for carriers to ensure that a
disclaimer is activated when a user clicks a link on a primary website
to embedded third-party software or an external website. The disclaimer
must inform the user that the software/website in not within the
carrier's control and may not follow the same accessibility policies.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted by June 18, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket No. DOT-OST-
2011-0177 through one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John C. Wood, Office of the General
Counsel, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (Voice),
202-366-7152 (Fax), or [email protected] (Email). Arrangements to
receive this document in an alternative format may be made by
contacting the above-named individual.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2105-0571.
Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel.
Type of Review: Renewal of information collections.
Background: This notice covers two information collection
requirements in the Department's Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA)
implementing regulation, 14 CFR part 382 (part 382), Nondiscrimination
on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel. Specifically, pursuant to
section 382.43(d), covered carriers must provide an online mechanism
for passengers to request disability accommodation services (e.g.,
enplaning/deplaning assistance, deaf/hard of hearing communication
assistance, escort to service animal relief area, etc.) for a
particular flight. Pursuant to section 382.43(e), covered carriers must
also ensure that when a user activates a link on a carrier's primary
website to embedded third-party software or to an external website, a
disclaimer is displayed notifying the user that the application or
website may not be accessible. These requirements became effective on
December 12, 2015, and December 12, 2016, respectively. Covered
carriers are U.S. and foreign air carriers that operate at least one
aircraft having a designed seating capacity of more than 60 passengers
and own or control a primary website that markets passenger air
transportation or a tour, or tour component that must be purchased with
air transportation, to the general public in the United States.\1\
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\1\ While there are approximately 190 U.S. and foreign air
carriers that conduct passenger-carrying service to, from, or in the
United States with at least one aircraft having a designed seating
capacity of more than 60 seats, not all of those carriers have a
primary website that markets passenger air transportation to the
general public in the U.S. The Department estimates that
approximately 165 of those 190 carriers are subject to the
Department's web-accessibility requirements as they operate such
aircraft and have a primary website that markets to U.S. consumers.
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The title, a description of the information collection and
respondents, and the periodic reporting burden are set forth below for
each of the information collections:
1. Requirement to make a disability accommodation service request
function available on the primary website. (14 CFR 382.43(d)).
Each covered carrier must provide a mechanism on its website for
passengers to request a disability accommodation service for a future
flight and provide advance notice of their request. Carriers may, but
need not, require passengers to include contact information on the form
in order to follow-up and request more specific information about the
passengers' accommodation needs. Carriers may also use the aggregate
data from the online service requests to understand and better plan for
the volume and types of service requests they receive across time
periods and routes, but also are not required to do so. While the
content and design of the online service request form is up to the
carriers, the Department anticipates that each covered U.S. and foreign
carrier that markets scheduled air transportation to the general public
in the United States would incur initial costs associated with
developing and reviewing a design and implementation plan for the
request form, developing, coding, and integrating the form into the
website, as well as testing, debugging, and connecting the form with a
backend database to store the information. The final regulatory
analysis (FRA) for the final rule entitled Nondiscrimination on the
Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Accessibility of Websites and
Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airports estimated that it will take an
average of 32 labor hours per carrier to develop, implement, integrate,
connect, and test the online request form. Initial costs are reduced
for carriers that rely on a request form developed by another entity.
There are no recordkeeping or reporting requirements. However, carriers
should use the service request information to facilitate appropriate,
timely assistance to their passengers.
Respondents: Certificated U.S. and foreign air carriers operating
to, from, and within the United States that operate at least one
aircraft having a seating capacity of more than 60 passengers and own
or control a primary website that markets air transportation to the
general public in the U.S.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of
which the Department expects all to have achieved compliance with the
requirement in a prior year. The
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Department estimates that each year there will be 3 new respondent
carriers.
Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 0 hours per carrier
compliant in a prior year, unless the carrier voluntarily elects to
modify or improve its form, and 32 hours per carrier creating an online
request form.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 96 hours. This estimate was
calculated by multiplying the total number of labor hours per year that
a carrier is estimated to spend to develop, implement, integrate,
connect, and test the online request form (32) by the estimated number
of new respondent carriers each year (3).
Frequency: One-time requirement.
2. Requirement to provide a disclaimer notice to users when
clicking a link on a primary website to embedded third-party software
or an external website. (14 CFR 382.43(e)).
Carriers must provide a disclaimer notice for each link on their
primary website that enables a user to access software or an external
website that is not in the carrier's control. The disclaimer notice
must be activated the first time a user clicks the link and must notify
the user that the application/website is not within the carrier's
control and may not follow the same accessibility policies as the
primary website. The Department anticipates that each covered U.S. and
foreign carrier will incur costs associated with identifying all links
on their websites that may require a disclaimer such as developing and
reviewing the design and language for the disclaimer notice, as well as
developing, testing, and deploying the code to the appropriate web
pages.
The incremental labor hours associated with providing the required
disclaimer may vary depending on the number of links on the website to
which this requirement applies. The FRA estimated that it will take an
average of 6 labor hours per carrier to identify the links and then
develop, test, and deploy the disclaimer notice on the website. We also
estimate that it will take less than 30 minutes per year for a carrier
to associate the notice with any new links to external websites or
third-party software added to their websites.
Respondents: Certificated U.S. and foreign air carriers operating
to, from, and within the United States that operate at least one
aircraft having a seating capacity of more than 60 passengers and own
or control a primary website that markets air transportation to the
general public in the U.S.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 165 U.S. and foreign carriers, of
which the Department expects all to have achieved compliance with the
requirement in a prior year. The Department estimates that each year
there will be 3 new respondent carriers.
Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 6 hours for carriers to
create, test, and deploy the disclaimer. 30 minutes for carriers
compliant in prior years to associate the notice with new links and
third-party software.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 100.5 hours. This estimate was
calculated by multiplying the total number of labor hours per year that
a carrier is estimated to spend to develop, test, and deploy the online
request form (6) by the estimated number of new respondent carriers
each year (3). To that total we added the product of the number of
hours that we estimated carriers may spend associating the notice with
new weblinks (.5 hours) and the number of carriers that are expected to
have achieved compliance in a prior year (165).
Frequency: One-time and recurrent requirements.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the Department's
performance; (b) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the
Department to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the collected information. The agency
will summarize and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's
clearance of this information collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2018.
Blane A. Workie,
Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings.
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