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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 109 / Wednesday, June 6, 2018 / Notices
Number of Respondents: 90
certificated air carriers and 300 charter
operators.
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 legers, 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 3 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 6 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 we
ensure 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.

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Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed record retention
requirements are 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.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31,
2018.
William Chadwick Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2018–12154 Filed 6–5–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Transportation Statistics Bureau
[Docket: DOT–OST–2014–0031 BTS
Paperwork Reduction Notice]

Agency Information Collection;
Activity Under OMB Review; Report of
Extension of Credit to Political
Candidates
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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 currently approved reporting
requirement. A Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day comment period was
published on March 28, 2018. No
comments were received.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by July 6, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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.
Comments: Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
SUMMARY:

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Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 715 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: OST
Desk Officer.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No.: 2138–0016.
Title: Report of Extension of Credit to
Political Candidates.
Form No.: 183.
Type Of Review: Extension of a
currently approved reporting
requirement.
Respondents: Certificated air carriers.
Number of Respondents: 2 (Monthly
Average).
Number of Responses: 24.
Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour.
Total Annual Burden: 24 hours.
Needs and Uses: The Department uses
this form as the means to fulfill its
obligation under the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 (the Act). The
Act’s legislative history indicates that
one of its statutory goals is to prevent
candidates for Federal political office
from incurring large amounts of
unsecured debt with regulated
transportation companies (e.g., airlines).
This information collection allows the
Department to monitor and disclose the
amount of unsecured credit extended by
airlines to candidates for Federal office.
All certificated air carriers are required
to submit this information.
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, and submission of
the information to agencies outside BTS
for review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative
matters.
Comments are invited on whether the
proposed retention of records is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department of
Transportation.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31,
2018.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2018–12153 Filed 6–5–18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P

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