[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 227 (Monday, November 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 92960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27587]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA-2001-11120]
Extension of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB
Review: Imposition and Collection of Passenger Civil Aviation Security
Service Fees
AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request
(ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0001,
abstracted below, to OMB for review and approval of an extension of the
currently approved collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its
expected burden. The collection involves air carriers maintaining an
accounting system to account for the passenger civil aviation security
service fees collected and reporting this information to TSA on a
quarterly basis, as well as recordkeeping compliance.
DATES: Send your comments by December 26, 2024. A comment to OMB is
most effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh, TSA PRA Officer,
Information Technology (IT), TSA-11, Transportation Security
Administration, 6595 Springfield Center Drive, Springfield, VA 20598-
6011; telephone (571) 227-2062; email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TSA published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, for the following
collection of information on September 4, 2024, 89 FR 71918. TSA did
not receive any comments on the notice.
Comments Invited
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is
not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it
displays a valid OMB control number. The ICR documentation will be
available at https://www.reginfo.gov upon its submission to OMB.
Therefore, in preparation for OMB review and approval of the following
information collection, TSA is soliciting comments to--
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed information requirement is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including using appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Information Collection Requirement
Title: Imposition and Collection of Passenger Civil Aviation
Security Service Fees.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
OMB Control Number: 1652-0001.
Forms(s): TSA Form 2502.
Affected Public: Air carriers and foreign air carriers.
Abstract: TSA is required by 49 U.S.C. 44940 to impose a uniform
fee on passengers to pay for certain costs of providing civil aviation
security services. Implementing regulations in 49 CFR part 1510 require
air carriers and foreign air carriers to collect the ``September 11th
Security Fee'' from passengers and to remit the fee monthly to TSA. The
fee is established under 49 U.S.C. 44940 to partially offset Federal
Government costs of providing aviation security through TSA programs.
Under 49 U.S.C. 44940(e)(4), TSA is authorized to ``require the
provision of such information as the Administrator . . . decides is
necessary to verify that fees have been collected and remitted at the
proper times and in the proper amounts.'' Consistent with this
authorization, 49 CFR 1520.17. Air carriers and foreign air carriers
are further required to submit quarterly reports to TSA that provide an
accounting of fees imposed, collected, refunded to passengers, and
remitted to TSA and to retain this data for 3 years. TSA has suspended
an additional requirement for air carriers with over 50,000 passengers
to submit annual audits of its fee collections and remittance; this
requirement may be reinstated in the future.
In December 2013, the fee was statutorily restructured to be based
on one-way trips rather than enplanements (the statute was further
amended in 2014 to impose a cap of $11.20 per round trip). In 2014 and
2015, TSA published interim final rules to implement these amendments
to 49 U.S.C. 44940. See 79 FR 35461 (June 20, 2014) and 80 FR 31850
(June 5, 2015), respectively. This information collection request
covers both the quarterly reports and the estimated impact should
annual audits be reinstated in the future.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 301.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 3,012.
Dated: November 20, 2024.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2024-27587 Filed 11-22-24; 8:45 am]
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