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: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 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

it's expected burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment

period soliciting comments on the following collection of information

was published on June 30, 1999 [64 FR, 35236].

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before December

20, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert M. Clark, Office of the

Secretary, Office of Transportation Policy, Department of

Transportation, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Phone

Number: (202)366-2916. Copies of these collections can also be

obtained.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of the Secretary

Title: Infant Travel Survey.

OMB Control Number: 2105-0536.

Affected Public: Citizens (typically parents) traveling in air

transportation with infants and small children.

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with changes of a previously

approved collection for which approval has expired.

Form(s): OMB 2105-0536.

Abstract: Children 2 years of age and younger are exempt from the

FAA requirement that they be restrained in a seat during transport

airplane takeoffs and landings. In February 1997, the White House

Commission on Aviation Safety and Security recommended that this

exemption be eliminated, requiring instead that those children be

placed in a separate aircraft seat equipped with an approved Child

Restraint System (CRS). In May 1995, in response to Section 522 of the

Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994, P.L. 103-

305, the FAA published a report on CRS use in transport category

aircraft.

FAA issued an ANPRM on April 2, 1998 (the comment period closed

June 28), seeking technical comments about what types of CRS could/

should be used in transport category aircraft. Responses to those

questions provide needed technical information relative to

implementation of CRS aboard transport airplanes, but economic

questions related to the issue were not included in that Notice. This

deficiency resulted in little information, on which to assess the

validity of the assumptions used in its analysis, being received from

the traveling public by the FAA. Accordingly, there is a need to gauge

the impact that requiring use of CRS would have on travelers

accompanied by infants and small children, 2 years of age and less.

Information needs to be obtained about the types of trips (length,

purpose, mode of travel) on which such children accompany adults; the

prevalence of actual CRS use, relative to air travel by infants and

small children; the factors that determine whether CRS are being used

for such children; and what types of changes to these travel events

would result from requiring the use of CRS.

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 74.7 hours.

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 techniques or other forms of information technology.

Comments to OMB are best assured of having their effect if OMB receives

them within 30 days of publication.

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 12, 1999.

Vanester M. Williams,

Clearance Officer, United States Department of Transportation.

[FR Doc. 99-30164 Filed 11-17-99; 8:45 am]

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