[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 30195-30196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13877]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

49 CFR Part 1

[OST Docket No. 1; Amdt. 1-270]


Organization and Delegation of Powers and Duties Transfer of 
Delegations From the Administrator of the Research and Special Programs 
Administration to the Director of the Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: Responsibility for the Department's aviation information 
program has been transferred from the Administrator of the Research and 
Special Programs Administration to the Director of the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics. This rule amends the delegations to be in 
accordance with the changed responsibilities. The rule is necessary to 
reflect the delegations in the Code of Federal Regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This rule is effective on May 28, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven B. Farbman, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for 
Regulation and Enforcement (202) 366-9306, United States Department of 
Transportation, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Responsibility for the Department's aviation 
information program is being transferred from the Administrator of the 
Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) to the Director of 
the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The office within RSPA 
that has had this responsibility is the Office of Airline Statistics 
(OAS), formerly known as the Office of Aviation Information Management 
(OAIM). The name change occurred as part of a 1990 reorganization of 
RSPA. Although the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) was not revised to 
reflect the name change, the industry was informed of the change by a 
directive issued by RSPA.
    The office within BTS that is receiving the responsibility is the 
Office of Airline Information. This rule [[Page 30196]] amends the 
delegations to be in accordance with the transfer. Included among the 
delegations is the authority to make and amend whatever regulations are 
necessary to carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40101 et seq., 
formerly the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended. (Pub. L. 103-
272, enacted July 5, 1994, revised and recodified the Federal Aviation 
Act within Subtitle VII of Title 49.) We will publish another final 
rule that will redesignate the Department's regulation that sets forth 
the authority of the Director of OAIM and will revise those portions of 
the CFR that still refer to RSPA and OAIM with respect to the aviation 
information program.
    Since this rule relates to departmental management, organization, 
procedure, and practice, notice and public comment are unnecessary. For 
the same reason, good cause exists for not publishing this rule at 
least 30 days before its effective date, as is ordinarily required by 5 
U.S.C. 553(d). Because the date of the transfer of responsibility for 
the aviation information program is May 28, 1995, that is the effective 
date of this rule.

List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 1

    Authority delegations (Government agencies), Organizations and 
functions (Government agencies).

PART 1--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for Part 1 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322; Pub. L. 101-552, 28 U.S.C. 2672, 31 
U.S.C. 3711(a)(2).


Sec. 1.2   [Amended]

    2. Section 1.2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as 
follows:
* * * * *
    (j) The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.


Sec. 1.3   [Amended]

    3. Section 1.3(b) is amended by adding a new paragraph (b)(10) to 
read as follows:
* * * * *
    (10) The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, headed by the 
Director.


Sec. 1.4   [Amended]

    4. Section 1.4 is amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as 
follows:
* * * * *
    (l) The Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Is responsible for:
    (1) Compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of 
transportation statistics to provide timely summaries and total 
(including industrywide aggregates and multiyear averages) of 
transportation-related information;
    (2) Establishing and implementing, in cooperation with the modal 
administrators, the States, and other Federal officials, a 
comprehensive, long-term program for the collection and analysis of 
data relating to the performance of the national transportation system;
    (3) Issuing guidelines for the collection of information by the 
Department required for statistics to be compiled pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
111(c)(1) in order to ensure that such information is accurate, 
reliable, relevant, and in a form that permits systematic analysis;
    (4) Coordinating the collection of information by the Department 
required for statistics to be compiled pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 111(c)(1) 
with related information-gathering activities conducted by the other 
Federal departments and agencies collecting appropriate data not 
elsewhere gathered;
    (5) Making the statistics published under this subsection readily 
accessible, in compliance with all disclosure laws, regulations, and 
requirements; and.
    (6) Identifying information that is needed in accordance with 49 
U.S.C. 111(c)(1) but which is not being collected, reviewing such needs 
at least annually with the Advisory Council on Transportation 
Statistics, and making recommendations to appropriate Department of 
Transportation research officials concerning extramural and intramural 
research programs to provide such information.


Sec. 1.53  [Amended]

    5. Section 1.53(g) is removed and reserved.
    6. A new Sec. 1.71 is added as follows:


Sec. 1.71  Delegations to the Director of the Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics.

    The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics is 
delegated authority to exercise powers and perform duties under the 
following statutes:
    (a) Aviation information. (1) 49 U.S.C. 329(b)(1), relating to 
collection and dissemination of information on civil aeronautics;
    (2) Section 4(a)(7) of the Civil Aeronautics Board Sunset Act of 
1984 (October 4, 1984; Pub. L. 98-443), relating to the reporting of 
the extension of unsecured credit to political candidates (section 401, 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971; 2 U.S.C. 451), in conjunction 
with the General Counsel and the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and 
International Affairs; and
    (3) 49 U.S.C. 40113 (relating to taking such actions and issuing 
such regulations as may be necessary to carry out responsibilities 
under the Act), 49 U.S.C. 41702 (relating to the duty of carriers to 
provide safe and adequate service), 49 U.S.C. 41708 and 41709 (relating 
to the requirement to keep information and the forms in which it is to 
be kept), and 49 U.S.C. 41701 (relating to establishing just and 
reasonable classifications of carriers and rules to be followed by 
each) as appropriate to carry out the responsibilities under this 
paragraph in conjunction with the General Counsel and the Assistant 
Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
    (b) [Reserve].

    Issued at Washington, DC this 25th day of May 1995.
Federico Pena,
Secretary of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 95-13877 Filed 6-7-95; 8:45 am]
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