Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report, 38324-38325 [2019-16280]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38324-38325]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16280]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

[Docket ID Number: DOT-OST-2014-0031]


Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; 
Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report

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 will be 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 April 30, 2019. No comments were received.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by September 5, 2019.

ADDRESSES: 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.
    Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed collection of 
information is 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Bouse, Office of Airline 
Information, RTS-42, Room E34-441, OST-R, BTS, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone Number (202) 366-4876, 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.: 2139-0013.
    Title: Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report.
    Form No.: None.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Large certificated air carriers that provide scheduled 
passenger service.
    Number of Respondents: 47.
    Total Number of Annual Responses: 188.
    Estimated Time per Response: 60 hours.
    Total Annual Burden: 11,280 hours.
    Needs and Uses: Survey data are used in monitoring the airline 
industry, negotiating international agreements, reviewing requests for 
the grant of anti-trust immunity for air carrier alliance agreements, 
selecting new international routes, selecting U.S. carriers to operate

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limited entry foreign routes, and modeling the spread of contagious 
diseases. The Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report is the only 
aviation data collection by DOT where the air carriers report the true 
origins and destinations of passengers' flight itineraries. The 
Department does have another aviation data collection (T-100) which (1) 
gives passenger totals for city-pairs served on a nonstop basis and (2) 
market totals for passengers traveling on a single flight number. If 
the passenger travels on multiple flight numbers, a new market is 
recorded for each change in flight number.
    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.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 17, 2019.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2019-16280 Filed 8-5-19; 8:45 am]
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