60 Day Federal Register Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 124 / Monday, June 29, 2015 / Notices
Comments

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.

Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78).
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: June 22, 2015.
Thomas M. Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015–15888 Filed 6–26–15; 8:45 am]
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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; Part 249
Preservation of Records
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Department of
Transportation.

AGENCY:

ACTION:

Notice.

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13, the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics invites the
general public, industry and other
governmental parties to comment on the
continuing need for and usefulness of
BTS requiring certificated air carriers to
preserve accounting records, consumer
complaint letters, reservation reports
and records, system reports of aircraft
movements, etc. Also, public charter
operators and overseas military
personnel charter operators are required
to retain certain contracts, invoices,
receipts, bank records and reservation
records.

SUMMARY:

Written comments should be
submitted by August 28, 2015.

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DATES:

Jeff
Gorham, Office of Airline Information,
RTS–42, Room E34, OST–R, BTS, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590–0001, Telephone Number
(202) 366–4406, Fax Number (202) 366–
3383 or Email jeff.gorham@dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
DOT–OST–2014–0031 OMB Approval
No. 2138–0006 by any of the following
methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Services: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202–366–3383.
Instructions: Identify docket number,
DOT–OST–2014–0031, at the beginning
of your comments, and send two copies.
To receive confirmation that DOT
received your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet
users may access all comments received
by DOT at http://www.regulations.gov.
All comments are posted electronically
without charge or edits, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477–78) or you may visit http://
DocketInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov. or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.

ADDRESSES:

Privacy Act

Electronic Access
You may access comments received
for this notice at http://
www.regulations.gov, by searching
docket DOT–OST–2014–0031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No.: 2138–0006.
Title: Preservation of Air Carrier
Records—14 CFR part 249.
Form No.: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved recordkeeping
requirement.
Respondents: Certificated air carriers
and charter operators.
Number of Respondents: 90
certificated air carriers, 300 charter
operators.

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Estimated Time per Response: 3 hours
per certificated air carrier, 1 hour per
charter operator.
Total Annual Burden: 570 hours.
Needs and Uses: Part 249 requires the
retention of records such as: General
and subsidiary ledgers, journals and
journal vouchers, voucher distribution
registers, accounts receivable and
payable journals and ledgers, subsidy
records documenting underlying
financial and statistical reports to DOT,
funds reports, consumer records, sales
reports, auditors’ and flight coupons, air
waybills, etc. Depending on the nature
of the document, the carrier may be
required to retain the document for a
period of 30 days to three years. Public
charter operators and overseas military
personnel charter operators must retain
documents which evidence or reflect
deposits made by each charter
participant and commissions received
by, paid to, or deducted by travel agents,
and all statements, invoices, bills and
receipts from suppliers or furnishers of
goods and services in connection with
the tour or charter. These records are
retained for six months after completion
of the charter program.
Not only is it imperative that carriers
and charter operators retain source
documentation, but it is critical that
DOT has access to these records. Given
DOT’s established information needs for
such reports, the underlying support
documentation must be retained for a
reasonable period of time. Absent the
retention requirements, the support for
such reports may or may not exist for
audit/validation purposes and the
relevance and usefulness of the carrier
submissions would be impaired, since
the data could not be verified to the
source on a test basis.
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 June 24,
2015.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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