[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 68 (Monday, April 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18449-18450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-7185]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. OST-2005-20331]
RIN 2105-AD48


Notice of Information Collection Approval

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of information collection approval.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval of the information collection request (ICR) OMB No. 
2105-0552, ``Reports by Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During 
Air Transport'' and provides a specific compliance date of Wednesday, 
June 15, 2005, for carriers to begin submitting monthly reports to the 
Department of Transportation's Aviation Consumer Protection Division 
(ACPD) on incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal 
during air transport.

DATES: The expiration date for the ICR is March 31, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blane A. Workie, Office of the General 
Counsel, 400 7th Street, SW., Room 4116, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 
366-9342 (voice), (202) 366-7152 (Fax) or [email protected] (e-
mail). Arrangements to obtain the notice in an alternative format may 
be made by contacting the above-named individuals.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 14, 2005, the Office of the 
Secretary (OST) published a final rule on ``Reports by Carriers on 
Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport.'' 70 FR 7392. This 
OST rule requires air carriers that provide scheduled passenger air 
transportation to submit a monthly report to DOT's ACPD on any incident 
involving the loss, injury or death of an animal during air 
transportation. It also clarifies that the report on incidents 
involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport 
shall be made in the form and manner set forth in reporting directives 
issued by the Deputy General Counsel.
    On February 25, 2005, as promised in the OST rulemaking, a 
reporting directive issued by the Deputy General Counsel setting forth 
the form and manner in which carriers must submit the required data on 
loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport was published 
in the Federal Register. 70 FR 9217. At the time of publication of both 
the final rule and the reporting directive, the Department had not as 
yet obtained an OMB control number for its information collection 
request and consequently had not established a specific compliance date 
on which carriers must begin to submit monthly reports on incidents 
involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport.
    OMB regulations implementing provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 require that interested members of the public and affected 
agencies have an opportunity to comment on information collection and 
recordkeeping activities and specify that no person is required to 
respond to an information collection unless it displays a valid OMB 
control number. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
OST has received OMB approval of the following ICR:
    OMB Control Number: 2105-0552.
    Title: Reports by Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During 
Air Transport.

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    This information collection approval was granted by OMB on March 
29, 2005, and expires on March 31, 2008. Because OMB approved the 
information collection after publication of the February 14, 2005, 
final rule and the February 25, 2005, reporting directive, we are now 
announcing the OMB approval and establishing Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 
as the date on which carriers must begin to submit monthly reports on 
incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air 
transport to DOT's ACPD.
    The June 15, 2005, report which would be the first report required 
of carriers, must cover incidents that occurred from May 1, 2005, to 
May 31, 2005. Carriers must submit all subsequent reports within 15 
days of the end of the month as required under 14 CFR 234.13(a). If the 
15th day of a month should fall on a Saturday, Sunday or Federal 
holiday, then the carrier may provide the report on the next work day.

    Issued this 5th day of April, 2005, in Washington, DC.
Michael Robinson,
Departmental Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Department 
of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 05-7185 Filed 4-8-05; 8:45 am]
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