[Federal Register: November 15, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 220)]
[Proposed Rules]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Chapters I and III
[Docket No. FAA-2007-29291]
Review of Existing Regulations
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The FAA requests comments from the public to identify those
regulations currently in effect that we should amend, remove, or
simplify. We are publishing this notice under our ongoing regulatory
review program required by Executive Order 12866. Getting public
comments is a necessary element of our effort to make our regulations
more effective and less burdensome.
DATES: Send us your comments no later than January 14, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA-2007-
29291 using any of the following methods:
Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for sending your
comments electronically.
Mail: Send comments to the Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at
202-493-2251.
Hand Delivery: Bring comments to the Docket Management
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For more information on the rulemaking process, see the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change, to
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you
provide. Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone can
find and read the comments received into any of our dockets, including
the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment
for 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).
Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to
http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to the Docket Management
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adrian D. Wright, Office of
Rulemaking, ARM-103, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3317; e-mail
adrian.d.wright@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Congress has authorized the Secretary of Transportation, and by
delegation, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) to do the following, among other things:
Develop and maintain a sound regulatory system that is
responsive to the needs of the public,
Regulate air commerce in a way that best promotes safety
and fulfills national defense requirements, and
Oversee, license, and regulate commercial launch and
reentry activities and the operation of launch and reentry sites as
carried out by U.S. citizens or within the United States.
Anyone interested in further information about FAA's authority and
responsibilities should refer to Title 49 of the United States Code,
particularly Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs.
For many years, the FAA has maintained an active regulatory review
program:
In 1992, the President announced a regulatory review to
``weed out unnecessary and burdensome government regulations, which
impose needless costs on consumers and substantially impede economic
growth.'' In response to a request for public comments published in the
Federal Register (57 FR 4744, February 7, 1992), the FAA received more
than 300 comments.
In August 1993, the National Commission to Ensure a Strong
Competitive Airline Industry (the Commission) recommended the FAA
undertake a short-range regulatory review to remove or amend existing
regulations to reduce regulatory burdens consistent with safety and
security considerations.
In September 1993, section 5 of Executive Order 12866 (58
FR 51735, October 4, 1993) required each agency to submit a program to
the Office of Management and Budget by December 31, 1993, under which
the agency will periodically review its existing significant
regulations to determine whether any should be changed or removed.
In January 1994, the FAA published a request for public
comments in response to the Commission recommendation and to facilitate
the review envisioned by E.O. 12866 (59 FR 1362, January 10, 1994). We
received more than 400 comments from 184 commenters.
In August 1995, the FAA published its proposed plan for
periodic regulatory reviews for comment (60 FR 44142, August 24, 1995).
In October 1996, the FAA adopted its current plan for
periodic regulatory reviews based on a three-year cycle (61 FR 53610,
October 15, 1996).
In February 1997, the White House Commission on Aviation
Safety and Security recommended the FAA simplify its regulations.
In May 1997, the FAA published its first request for
comments under the three-year review program and in accord
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with the Commission recommendation (62 FR 26894, May 15, 1997). We
received 82 comments and published results of the review in October
1998 (63 FR 56539, October 22, 1998).
In July 2000, the FAA began the second round of regulatory
review under the three-year program (65 FR 43265, July 13, 2000). We
received 476 comments and published results of the review in January
2002 (67 FR 4680, January 31, 2002).
In February 2004, the FAA began the third round of
regulatory review under the three-year program (65 FR 8575, February
25, 2004). We received 97 comments from 30 different commenters and
published results of the review in June 2007 (72 FR 34999, June 26,
2007).
In summary, since 1992 the FAA has completed five rounds of
regulatory review and has received approximately 1,350 comments.
Request for Comments
As part of its ongoing plan for periodic regulatory reviews, the
FAA is requesting the public identify three regulations, in priority
order, that it believes we should amend or eliminate.
Our goal is to identify regulations that impose undue regulatory
burden; are no longer necessary; or overlay, duplicate, or conflict
with other Federal regulations. In order to focus on areas of greatest
interest, and to effectively manage agency resources, the FAA asks that
commenters responding to this notice limit their input to three issues
they consider most urgent, and to list them in priority order.
The FAA will review the issues addressed by the commenters against
its regulatory agenda and rulemaking program efforts and adjust its
regulatory priorities consistent with its statutory responsibilities.
At the end of this process, the FAA will publish a summary and general
disposition of comments and indicate, where appropriate, how we will
adjust our regulatory priorities.
Also, we request the public provide any specific suggestions where
rules could be developed as performance-based rather than prescriptive,
and any specific plain-language that might be used, and provide
suggested language on how those rules should be written.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2007.
Nick Sabatini,
Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety.
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