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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2018–0012]
TEXRail’s Request To Amend Its
Positive Train Control Safety Plan and
Positive Train Control System
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
This document provides the
public with notice that, on October 31,
2024, TEXRail (TEX) submitted its
Positive Train Control Safety Plan
(PTCSP), Version 2.0, dated October 9,
2024, to FRA’s Secure Information
Repository. TEX asks FRA to approve its
updated PTCSP and certify TEX’s
Interoperable Electronic Train
Management System (I–ETMS) as a
‘‘mixed’’ positive train control (PTC)
system. As this RFA may involve a
request for FRA’s approval of proposed
material modifications to an FRAcertified PTC system, FRA is publishing
this notice and inviting public comment
on TEX’s RFA to its PTCSP.
DATES: FRA will consider comments
received by February 10, 2025 before
taking final action on the PTCSP. FRA
may consider comments received after
that date to the extent practicable and
without delaying implementation of
valuable or necessary modifications to a
PTC system.
ADDRESSES:
Comments: Comments may be
submitted by going to https://
www.regulations.gov and following the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and the
applicable docket number. The relevant
PTC docket number for this railroad is
Docket No. FRA–2018–0012. For
convenience, all active PTC dockets are
hyperlinked on FRA’s website at https://
railroads.dot.gov/researchdevelopment/program-areas/traincontrol/ptc/railroads-ptc-dockets. All
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov; this includes any
personal information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gabe Neal, Staff Director, Signal, Train
Control, and Crossings Division,
telephone: 816–516–7168, email:
Gabe.Neal@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In general,
title 49 United States Code (U.S.C.)
section 20157(h) requires FRA to certify
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that a host railroad’s PTC system
complies with title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part 236, subpart I,
before the technology may be operated
in revenue service. Before making
certain changes to an FRA-certified PTC
system or the associated FRA-approved
PTCSP, a host railroad must submit, and
obtain FRA’s approval of, an RFA to its
PTCSP under 49 CFR 236.1021.
Under 49 CFR 236.1021(e), FRA’s
regulations provide that FRA will
publish a notice in the Federal Register
and invite public comment in
accordance with 49 CFR part 211, if an
RFA includes a request for approval of
a material modification of a signal or
train control system. Accordingly, this
notice informs the public that, on
October 31, 2024, TEX submitted an
RFA to its PTCSP for its I–ETMS PTC
system which seeks FRA’s approval to
change the classification of its PTC
system to a Mixed PTC system. In its
PTCSP, TEX asserts that the I–ETMS
PTC system it is implementing is a
mixed PTC system as defined in Title 49
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
236.1015(e). The PTCSP describes TEX’s
I–ETMS implementation and the
associated I–ETMS safety processes,
safety analyses, and test, validation, and
verification processes used during the
development of I–ETMS. The PTCSP
also contains TEX’s operational and
support requirements and procedures.
That RFA is available in Docket No.
FRA–2018–0012. Interested parties are
invited to comment on TEX’s RFA to its
PTCSP by submitting written comments
or data. During FRA’s review of TEX’s
RFA, FRA will consider any comments
or data submitted within the timeline
specified in this notice and to the extent
practicable, without delaying
implementation of valuable or necessary
modifications to a PTC system. See 49
CFR 236.1021; see also 49 CFR
236.1011(e). However, FRA may elect
not to respond to any particular
comment, and under 49 CFR
236.1009(d)(3), FRA maintains the
authority to approve or disapprove the
PTCSP at its sole discretion.
Privacy Act Notice
In accordance with 49 CFR 211.3,
FRA solicits comments from the public
to better inform its decisions. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including
any personal information the
commenter provides, to https://
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
See https://www.regulations.gov/
privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
regulations.gov. To facilitate comment
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tracking, we encourage commenters to
provide their name, or the name of their
organization; however, submission of
names is completely optional. If you
wish to provide comments containing
proprietary or confidential information,
please contact FRA for alternate
submission instructions.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Carolyn R. Hayward-Williams,
Director, Office of Railroad Systems and
Technology.
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BILLING CODE 4910–06–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0177]
Notice of Submission of Proposed
Information Collections to OMB;
Agency Request for Reinstatement 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 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended) this
notice announces the Department’s
intention to reinstate Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control
number 2105–0571 for certain
information collections. The collections
involve requirements in part 382 of title
14, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
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 February 10, 2025.
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.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590.
SUMMARY:
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• Hand Delivery: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except on Federal
holidays. The telephone number is 202–
366–9329.
• Instructions: You must include the
agency name and a docket number
DOT–OST–2011–0177 at the beginning
of your comment. All comments
received will be posted without change
to https://www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth
Brodsky, Office of the General Counsel,
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
(202) 366–7592 (Voice) or
beth.brodsky@dot.gov (Email). You may
also 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 abovenamed individuals.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2105–0571.
Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis
of Disability in Air Travel.
Type of Request: Reinstatement 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
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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
DOT is publishing this notice to
announce its intent to request
reinstatement of the previously
approved information collections
described above under OMB Control
Number 2105–0571. The Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to issue
two notices seeking public comment on
information collection activities before
OMB may approve paperwork packages.
A Federal agency generally cannot
conduct or sponsor a collection of
information, and the public is generally
not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to monetary penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information
if the collection of information does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
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
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
1 The Department estimates that 170 is the
maximum number of entities that are covered by
the requirements addressed in this notice. 170
represents the number of U.S. and foreign air
carriers that submitted an annual report on
disability-related complaints to the Department
under 14 CFR 382.157 for the reporting cycle in
Calendar Year 2023. Because the requirement to file
a report under section 382.157 applies to 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, the Department assumes the
number of carriers that file the annual report on
disability-related complaints is similar to the
number of carriers covered under the requirements
described in this notice.
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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 titled 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 United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
170 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 14 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: 448
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 (14).
Frequency: One-time requirement.
2. Requirement to provide a
disclaimer notice to users when clicking
a link on a primary website to an
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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 United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
170 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 14 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: 169
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 (14). To that total we added the
product of the number of hours that we
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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
(170).
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 1.26, 1.27, 1.48
and 1.49; DOT Order 1351.29.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Livaughn Chapman Jr.,
Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of
Aviation Consumer Protection.
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BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Monetary Allowance for Outer Burial
Receptacles
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) is providing notice of the
monetary allowance amount payable for
outer burial receptacles (OBR) for
qualifying interments in a VA national
cemetery or in a VA grant-funded
veterans cemetery that occur during
calendar year (CY) 2025. The allowance
is equal to the average cost of
Government-furnished graveliners less
any administrative costs associated with
processing and paying the allowance.
The purpose of this notice is to inform
interested parties of the average cost of
Government-furnished graveliners,
associated administrative costs, and the
allowance amount payable for
qualifying interments that occur in CY
2025.
DATES: This allowance amount is
effective on January 1, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Carter, Chief of Budget
SUMMARY:
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Execution Division, National Cemetery
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20420, telephone: 202–
461–9764 (this is not a toll-free
number).
Section
2306(e) of title 38, United States Code,
authorizes VA to provide an OBR for
each new grave used for casketed
remains in an open VA national
cemetery or in a cemetery that is the
subject of a grant to a State or Tribal
Organization under 38 U.S.C. 2408.
Section 2306(e)(4) authorizes VA to
administer this benefit using a voucher
system or other system of
reimbursement in situations where an
OBR is purchased or provided in lieu of
a Government-furnished graveliner. VA
administers the OBR monetary
allowance in accordance with 38 CFR
38.629, which specifies when payment
of the monetary allowance is authorized
and how the allowance amount is
determined each year and requires VA
to post the amount of the allowance in
the Notices section of the Federal
Register. This notice serves the purpose
of meeting that requirement for CY
2025.
The allowance for qualified
interments that occur during CY 2025 is
equal to the average cost of Governmentfurnished graveliners in fiscal year (FY)
2024, less the administrative cost
incurred by VA in processing and
paying the allowance in lieu of the
Government-furnished graveliner.
The average cost of Governmentfurnished graveliners is determined by
taking VA’s total cost during a fiscal
year for single-depth graveliners that
were procured for placement at the time
of interment and dividing it by the total
number of such graveliners procured by
VA during that fiscal year. The
calculation excludes both graveliners
pre-placed in gravesites as part of
cemetery gravesite development projects
and all double-depth graveliners. Using
this method of computation, the average
cost was determined to be $439.00 for
FY 2024.
The administrative cost is based on
the costs incurred by VA during CY
2024 that relate to processing and
paying an allowance in lieu of the
Government-furnished graveliner. This
cost has been determined to be $9.00.
The allowance payable for qualifying
interments occurring during CY 2025,
therefore, is $430.00.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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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 Reinstatement 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 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended) this notice announces the Department's
intention to reinstate Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control
number 2105-0571 for certain information collections. The collections
involve requirements in part 382 of title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), 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 February 10, 2025.
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.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140,
Washington, DC 20590.
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Hand Delivery: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays. The telephone number
is 202-366-9329.
Instructions: You must include the agency name and a
docket number DOT-OST-2011-0177 at the beginning of your comment. All
comments received will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth Brodsky, Office of the General
Counsel, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-7592 (Voice)
or [email protected] (Email). You may also 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 individuals.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2105-0571.
Title: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel.
Type of Request: Reinstatement 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\ The Department estimates that 170 is the maximum number of
entities that are covered by the requirements addressed in this
notice. 170 represents the number of U.S. and foreign air carriers
that submitted an annual report on disability-related complaints to
the Department under 14 CFR 382.157 for the reporting cycle in
Calendar Year 2023. Because the requirement to file a report under
section 382.157 applies to 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, the Department assumes the number of carriers
that file the annual report on disability-related complaints is
similar to the number of carriers covered under the requirements
described in this notice.
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DOT is publishing this notice to announce its intent to request
reinstatement of the previously approved information collections
described above under OMB Control Number 2105-0571. The Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its implementing regulations, 5 CFR
part 1320, require Federal agencies to issue two notices seeking public
comment on information collection activities before OMB may approve
paperwork packages. A Federal agency generally cannot conduct or
sponsor a collection of information, and the public is generally not
required to respond to an information collection, unless it is approved
by the OMB under the PRA and displays a currently valid OMB Control
Number. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no
person shall generally be subject to monetary penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information if the collection of
information does not display a valid OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR
1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
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
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 titled 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 United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 170 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 14 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: 448 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 (14).
Frequency: One-time requirement.
2. Requirement to provide a disclaimer notice to users when
clicking a link on a primary website to an
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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 United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 170 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 14 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: 169 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 (14). 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 (170).
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 1.26, 1.27, 1.48 and 1.49; DOT Order
1351.29.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Livaughn Chapman Jr.,
Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of Aviation Consumer
Protection.
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