
[Federal Register: October 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 209)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 63880-63881]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 91

[Docket No. FAA-2006-25250; Amdt. No. 91-303]
RIN 2120-AI63

 
Special Awareness Training for the Washington, DC Metropolitan 
Area; OMB Approval of Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; Notice of Office of Management and Budget approval 
for information collection.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Office of Management and Budget's 
(OMB's) approval of the information collection requirement contained in 
the FAA's final rule, ``Special Awareness Training for the Washington, 
DC Metropolitan Area,'' which was published on August 12, 2008.

DATES: The FAA received OMB approval for the information collection 
requirements in Sec.  91.161 on October 2, 2008. The rule will become 
effective on February 9, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John D. Lynch, Certification and 
General Aviation Operations Branch, AFS-810, General Aviation and 
Commercial Division, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3844.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 12, 2008, the FAA published the 
final rule, ``Special Awareness Training for the Washington, DC 
Metropolitan Area'' (73 FR 46797). The rule requires ``special 
awareness'' training for any pilot who flies under visual flight rules 
(VFR) within a 60-nautical-mile (NM) radius of the Washington, DC VHF 
omni-directional range/distance measuring equipment (DCA VOR/DME). The 
rule contains information collection requirements that had not yet been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget at the time of 
publication. In the DATES section of the rule, the FAA noted that 
affected parties did not need to comply with the information collection 
requirements until OMB approved the FAA's request to collect the 
information.
    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, OMB approved that 
request on October 2, 2008, and assigned the information collection OMB 
Control Number 2120-0734. The FAA request was approved by OMB

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without change and expires on October 31, 2011. This notice is being 
published to inform affected parties of the approval and to announce 
that the information collection requirements of Sec.  91.161 will 
become effective when the final rule becomes effective on February 9, 
2009.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 22, 2008.
Pamela Hamilton-Powell,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.
 [FR Doc. E8-25608 Filed 10-27-08; 8:45 am]

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