[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 115 (Friday, June 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 33279]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-11606]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee; Transport Airplane and 
Engine Issues--Implementation of Previously Assigned Task Item

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of implementation of previously assigned task item for 
the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC).

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SUMMARY: The FAA has assigned the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 
Committee (ARAC) to disposition certain technical comments through the 
Transport Airplane and Engine Issues Group (TAEIG) and its Design for 
Security Harmonization Working Group (DSHWG). This notice is to inform 
the public of this ARAC activity.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Gardlin, Federal Aviation 
Administration, Transport Airplane Directorate (ANM-115), Northwest 
Mountain Region Headquarters, 1601 Lind Ave., SW., Renton, WA 98055-
4056; telephone: (425) 227-2136; fax: 425-227-1320 e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The FAA established the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee to 
provide advice and recommendations to the FAA Administrator on the 
FAA's rulemaking activities for aviation-related issues. This includes 
obtaining advice and recommendations on the FAA's commitments to 
harmonize Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) with its 
partners in Europe and Canada.

The Task

    In a tasking issued on October 20, 1999, (64 FR 57921, Oct. 27, 
1999), the FAA assigned ARAC to provide advice and recommendations 
relative to the following issue:
    Implementation of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), 
Rules from Amendment 97 to Annex 8, Concerning Design for Security.

ARAC Acceptance of Task

    ARAC accepted the task, and the TAEIG chose to establish the Design 
for Security Harmonization Working Group. As a part of that task, ARAC 
agreed that ``If the resulting recommendation is one or more notices of 
proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published by the FAA, the FAA may ask ARAC 
to recommend disposition of any substantive comments the FAA 
receives.''
    This notice is to inform the public that the following specific 
technical comments are assigned to the DSHWG:
     Consideration of structural deflections for system 
integrity
     Flight/dispatch regimes under which smoke protection 
capability is required
     System separation requirements in relation to other 
regulations (i.e., Sections 25.729(f) and 25.903(d))
     Definition of the system separation distance measurement
     Definition of object size for interior search

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 6, 2007.
Eve Taylor Adams,
Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking.
 [FR Doc. E7-11606 Filed 6-14-07; 8:45 am]
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