Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Agency Information

Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Department of Transportation (DOT).

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ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501

et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request

(ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature

of the information collection and its expected cost and burden. The

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting

comments on the following collections of information was published on

July 16, 1996 [FR 61, page 37104].

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 4, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernie Stankus, Office of Airline

Information, K-25, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC. 20590, (202) 366-4387.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

1. Title: Reporting Required for International Civil Aviation

Organization (ICAO).

Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information

collection.

OMB Control Number: 2138-0039.

Form Number: BTS Form EF.

Affected Public: Large certificated air carriers.

Abstract: As a party to the Convention on International Civil

Aviation Organization (ICAO) (Treaty), the United States is obligated

to provide ICAO with financial and statistical data on operations of

U.S. air carriers. Over 99 percent of the data filed with ICAO is

extracted from the air carriers' Form 41 submissions to DOT. BTS Form

EF is the means by which BTS supplies the remaining one percent of the

air carrier data to ICAO.

Estimated Annual Burden: The total estimated annual burden hours is

26.

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, including 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 September 26, 1996.

Phillip A. Leach,

Clearance Officer, United States Department of Transportation.

[FR Doc. 96-25495 Filed 10-3-96; 8:45 am]

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