Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information Collections: Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of Authorization, ICR-2106-0035, 11395-11396 [2019-05729]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 58 / Tuesday, March 26, 2019 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration [Docket No. PHMSA–2019–0015] Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); DOT. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: PHMSA is publishing this notice to seek public comments on a request for a special permit, seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the Federal pipeline safety regulations. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, PHMSA will review the comments received from this notice as part of its evaluation to grant or deny the special permit request. DATES: Submit any comments regarding this special permit request by April 25, 2019. ADDRESSES: Comments should reference the docket number for the specific special permit request and may be submitted in the following ways: • E-Gov Website: https:// www.Regulations.gov. This site allows the public to enter comments on any Federal Register notice issued by any agency. • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. • Mail: Docket Management System: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M–30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. • Hand Delivery: Docket Management System: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Instructions: You should identify the docket number for the special permit request you are commenting on at the beginning of your comments. If you submit your comments by mail, please submit two copies. To receive confirmation that PHMSA has received your comments, please include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet users may submit comments at https:// www.Regulations.gov. Note: Privacy Act Statement: There is a privacy statement published at https:// www.Regulations.gov. Comments, including any personal information provided, are posted without changes or edits to https://www.Regulations.gov. jbell on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Mar 25, 2019 Jkt 247001 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone at 202–366–0113, or email at kay.mciver@dot.gov. Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by telephone at 713–272–2855, or email at Steve.Nanney@dot.gov. PHMSA received a special permit request from Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP, (GSPC) to deviate from the federal pipeline safety regulations in 49 CFR 192.611, for one segment of 30-inch diameter, Index 330 Pipeline, located in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, where the class location has changed from a Class 1 location to a Class 3 location. The application requests a new permit to operate the existing Class 1 pipe in the new Class 3 location for the segment from survey station 527+87 to 567+51 (3964 feet). The proposed special permit inspection area extends from survey station 0+03, the start of the Index 330 Pipeline at Bayou Sale Junction, to survey station 1212+28 at the Weeks Island Junction. The Inspection Area is 22.96 miles long (121,558 feet) and extends from St. Mary Parish to Iberia Parish in Louisiana. In lieu of pipe replacement, GSPC seeks permission to perform alternative risk control activities based on integrity management program principles and requirements. The special permit request provided by the operator includes a draft environmental assessment (EA), proposed special permit conditions, and location map. These documents are filed at https://www.Regulations.gov, in Docket No. PHMSA–2019–0015. We invite interested persons to participate by reviewing the proposed special permit documents and draft EA at https://www.Regulations.gov, and by submitting written comments, data or other views. Please include any comments on potential safety and environmental impacts that may result if the special permit is granted. Before issuing a decision on the special permit request, PHMSA will evaluate all comments received on or before the comment closing date. Comments received after the comment closing date will be evaluated if it is possible to do so without incurring additional expense or delay. PHMSA will consider each relevant comment we receive in making our decision to grant or deny a request. 11395 Issued in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2019, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.97. Linda Daugherty, Deputy Associate Administrator for Field Operations. [FR Doc. 2019–05678 Filed 3–25–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–60–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PO 00000 Frm 00117 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION [Docket No. DOT–OST–2013–0074] Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information Collections: Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of Authorization, ICR–2106–0035 Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice and request for comments. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces that the Information Collection Request, abstracted below, is being forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget for extension of approval of currently approved ICR– 2106–0036, Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of Authorization. Earlier, a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was published. The agency did not receive any comments to its previous notice. DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by April 25, 2019. ADDRESSES: Your comments should be identified by Docket No. DOT–OST– 2013–0074 and should be submitted through one of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal: https:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. • Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503. • email: oira_submission@ omb.eop.gov. • Fax: (202) 395–5806. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darren Jaffe, (202) 366–2512, Office of International Aviation, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W86–441, Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Approval No. 2106–0035. Title: Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of Authorization. Form No.: Form OST 4540. E:\FR\FM\26MRN1.SGM 26MRN1 11396 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 58 / Tuesday, March 26, 2019 / Notices jbell on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Respondents: Foreign Air Carriers. Number of Respondents: approximately 100. Estimated Time per Response: 2.25 hours per application. Total Annual Burden: 1,000 hours. Abstract: Applicants use Form OST 4540 to request statements of authorization to conduct numerous types of operations authorized under Title 14, CFR part 212. The form requires basic information regarding the carrier(s) conducting the operation, the party filing the form, the operations being conducted, the number of thirdand fourth-freedom flights conducted in the last twelve-month period, and certification of reciprocity from the carrier’s homeland government. DOT analysts will use the information collected to determine if applications for fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-freedom operations meet the public interest requirements necessary to authorize such applications. Burden Statement: We estimate that the industry-wide total hour burden for this collection to be approximately 1,000 hours or approximately 2.25 hours per application. Conservatively, we estimate the compilation of background information will require 1.75 hours, and the completion and submission of OST Form 4540 will require thirty (30) minutes. Reporting the number of thirdand fourth-freedom operations conducted by an applicant carrier will require collection of flight data, and detailed analysis to determine which flights conducted by the carrier are third- and fourth-freedom. Applicants should be able to use data collected for the Department’s T–100 program to provide this information (under this program, carriers are required periodically to compile and report certain traffic data to the Department, as more fully described in the Docket referenced in footnote 1 below). The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provide carriers with a computer program that allows them to compile and monitor, among other things, flight origin and destination data, to be used in making the carriers’ T–100 submissions.1 We estimated that carriers will require 1.25 hours per application 2 1 The rule-making associated with the T–100 program can be found on the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at https:// www.regulations.gov, in Docket DOT–OST–1998– 4043. Information regarding burden hours is on file in the Office of Aviation Analysis (X–50). 2 The Office of Aviation Analysis (X–50) estimated that small-carriers would require 1 burden hour per report, and large carriers would require 3 burden hours per report to analyze and VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Mar 25, 2019 Jkt 247001 to compile and analyze the data necessary to disclose the number of third- and fourth-freedom flights conducted within the twelve-month period preceding the filing of an application. Foreign carriers will also have to provide evidence that their homeland government will afford reciprocity to U.S. carriers seeking authority for the similar fifth-, sixth-, and seventhfreedom operations. Carriers may cite certifications submitted by carriers from the same homeland if that homeland issued such certification within the preceding six-month period. Approximately 100 carriers from roughly 30 distinct homelands use OST Form 4540 to apply for statements of authorization annually. We estimate that one foreign carrier from any given homeland will expend roughly 4 hours every six-months to obtain certification from its homeland governments.3 We have apportioned 30 minutes to each application to account for the time required to obtain certifications from homeland governments. We have no empirical data to indicate how much time is required for a person to complete OST Form 4540; however, anecdotal evidence reveals that respondents spend thirty (30) minutes or less completing the form and brief justification. In some cases, respondents spend a limited amount of time, less than ten (10) minutes, reviewing the form before sending it via facsimile or email to the Department. In the interest of providing a conservative estimate so as to not understate the burden hours, we estimate the hour burden for completing OST Form 4540 as thirty (30) minutes. Issued in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2019. Brian J. Hedberg, Director, Office of International Aviation. [FR Doc. 2019–05729 Filed 3–25–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P report T–100 program data. Considering that the data required in this information collection can be derived from data already collected, we have taken an average of the estimated time required, and conservatively shortened the time by 45 minutes because no new data entry will be required. 3 Calculation: (4 burden hours per application) × (30 foreign homelands) × (2 requests per year) = 240 annual burden hours. Apportioning 240 annual burden hours equally among an average of 430 applications annually = approximately 30 burden minutes per application. PO 00000 Frm 00118 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Internal Revenue Service Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Grant Program; Availability of 2019 Supplemental Grant Application Period Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: This document contains a Notice that the IRS is accepting applications from qualified organizations for a part-year Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) matching grant to provide representation to low income taxpayers and education about taxpayer rights and responsibilities to individuals who speak English as a second language (ESL taxpayers) in certain identified geographic areas. The grant will cover the last five months of the 2019 grant year, from August 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019. The supplemental application period shall run from March 19, 2019, to April 18, 2019. DATES: An organization applying for part-year funding for the 2019 grant year must submit its application electronically at www.grants.gov. All organizations must use the funding number of TREAS–GRANTS–052019– 002, and applications must be filed electronically by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on April 18, 2019. The Federal Financial Assistance program number is 21.008. See https:// beta.sam.gov/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Beard at (949) 575–6200 (not a toll-free number) or by email at beard.william@ irs.gov. The LITC Program Office is located at: IRS, Taxpayer Advocate Service, LITC Grant Program Administration Office, TA: LITC, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 1034, Washington, DC 20224. Copies of the 2019 Grant Application Package and Guidelines, IRS Publication 3319 (Rev. 5–2018), can be downloaded from the IRS internet site at www.irs.gov/ advocate or ordered by calling the IRS Distribution Center toll-free at 1–800– 829–3676. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Public Law 116–6, Congress appropriated $12,000,000 for low income taxpayer clinic grants for fiscal year 2019. 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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2013-0074]


Agency Request for Renewal of Previously Approved Information 
Collections: Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of 
Authorization, ICR-2106-0035

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation 
(DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces that the Information Collection Request, abstracted 
below, is being forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget for 
extension of approval of currently approved ICR-2106-0036, Foreign Air 
Carrier Application for Statement of Authorization. Earlier, a Federal 
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was published. The agency 
did not receive any comments to its previous notice.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by April 25, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Your comments should be identified by Docket No. DOT-OST-
2013-0074 and should be submitted through one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer 
for U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503.
     email: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
     Fax: (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darren Jaffe, (202) 366-2512, Office 
of International Aviation, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE, Room W86-441, Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Approval No. 2106-0035.
    Title: Foreign Air Carrier Application for Statement of 
Authorization.
    Form No.: Form OST 4540.

[[Page 11396]]

    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Foreign Air Carriers.
    Number of Respondents: approximately 100.
    Estimated Time per Response: 2.25 hours per application.
    Total Annual Burden: 1,000 hours.
    Abstract: Applicants use Form OST 4540 to request statements of 
authorization to conduct numerous types of operations authorized under 
Title 14, CFR part 212. The form requires basic information regarding 
the carrier(s) conducting the operation, the party filing the form, the 
operations being conducted, the number of third- and fourth-freedom 
flights conducted in the last twelve-month period, and certification of 
reciprocity from the carrier's homeland government. DOT analysts will 
use the information collected to determine if applications for fifth-, 
sixth-, and seventh-freedom operations meet the public interest 
requirements necessary to authorize such applications.
    Burden Statement: We estimate that the industry-wide total hour 
burden for this collection to be approximately 1,000 hours or 
approximately 2.25 hours per application. Conservatively, we estimate 
the compilation of background information will require 1.75 hours, and 
the completion and submission of OST Form 4540 will require thirty (30) 
minutes. Reporting the number of third- and fourth-freedom operations 
conducted by an applicant carrier will require collection of flight 
data, and detailed analysis to determine which flights conducted by the 
carrier are third- and fourth-freedom. Applicants should be able to use 
data collected for the Department's T-100 program to provide this 
information (under this program, carriers are required periodically to 
compile and report certain traffic data to the Department, as more 
fully described in the Docket referenced in footnote 1 below). The 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provide carriers with a 
computer program that allows them to compile and monitor, among other 
things, flight origin and destination data, to be used in making the 
carriers' T-100 submissions.\1\ We estimated that carriers will require 
1.25 hours per application \2\ to compile and analyze the data 
necessary to disclose the number of third- and fourth-freedom flights 
conducted within the twelve-month period preceding the filing of an 
application.
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    \1\ The rule-making associated with the T-100 program can be 
found on the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at https://www.regulations.gov, in Docket DOT-OST-1998-4043. Information 
regarding burden hours is on file in the Office of Aviation Analysis 
(X-50).
    \2\ The Office of Aviation Analysis (X-50) estimated that small-
carriers would require 1 burden hour per report, and large carriers 
would require 3 burden hours per report to analyze and report T-100 
program data. Considering that the data required in this information 
collection can be derived from data already collected, we have taken 
an average of the estimated time required, and conservatively 
shortened the time by 45 minutes because no new data entry will be 
required.
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    Foreign carriers will also have to provide evidence that their 
homeland government will afford reciprocity to U.S. carriers seeking 
authority for the similar fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-freedom 
operations. Carriers may cite certifications submitted by carriers from 
the same homeland if that homeland issued such certification within the 
preceding six-month period. Approximately 100 carriers from roughly 30 
distinct homelands use OST Form 4540 to apply for statements of 
authorization annually. We estimate that one foreign carrier from any 
given homeland will expend roughly 4 hours every six-months to obtain 
certification from its homeland governments.\3\ We have apportioned 30 
minutes to each application to account for the time required to obtain 
certifications from homeland governments.
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    \3\ Calculation: (4 burden hours per application) x (30 foreign 
homelands) x (2 requests per year) = 240 annual burden hours. 
Apportioning 240 annual burden hours equally among an average of 430 
applications annually = approximately 30 burden minutes per 
application.
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    We have no empirical data to indicate how much time is required for 
a person to complete OST Form 4540; however, anecdotal evidence reveals 
that respondents spend thirty (30) minutes or less completing the form 
and brief justification. In some cases, respondents spend a limited 
amount of time, less than ten (10) minutes, reviewing the form before 
sending it via facsimile or email to the Department. In the interest of 
providing a conservative estimate so as to not understate the burden 
hours, we estimate the hour burden for completing OST Form 4540 as 
thirty (30) minutes.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2019.
Brian J. Hedberg,
Director, Office of International Aviation.
[FR Doc. 2019-05729 Filed 3-25-19; 8:45 am]
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