Federal Aviation Administration December 7, 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This action establishes Area Navigation (RNAV) route Q-141 and amends RNAV route Q-437 in support of the Northeast Corridor Atlantic Coast Route Project.

This action amends two low altitude Area Navigation (RNAV) routes (T-routes), and establishes one T-route, in support of the VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) Minimum Operational Network (MON) Program. The purpose is to enhance the efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS) by transitioning from ground-based navigation aids to a satellite-based navigation system.

The FAA proposes to amend the regulatory definitions of certain air carrier and commercial operations. This proposed rule would add powered-lift to these definitions to ensure the appropriate sets of rules apply to air carriers' and certain commercial operators' operations of aircraft that FAA regulations define as powered-lift. The FAA also proposes to update certain basic requirements that apply to air carrier oversight, such as the contents of operations specifications and the qualifications applicable to certain management personnel. In addition, this proposed rule would apply the rules for commercial air tours to powered-lift. This proposed rule is an important step in the FAA's integration of new entrant aircraft in the National Airspace System (NAS).

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a new information collection. The initial Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following collection of information was published on April 26, 2022. The collection involves the possibility for airplane manufacturers, for which a newly built airplane is subject to the applicability of Annex 16, Volume III of the Convention on Civil Aviation (hereinafter the ``Chicago Convention''), to submit an electronic datasheet to the FAA for posting to the CO2 Certification Database (CO2DB). The information to be collected will be necessary because of FAA's commitment to help (a) provide publicly available data on the CO2 Metric Value (MV) which represents a measure of fuel burn performance of airplane types against CO2 technology/design standards, (b) track and communicate the improvement in airplane CO2 MVs over time and (c) provide an incentive to improve the CO2 MV of airplane types.