[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 22, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 83671-83672]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-28225]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2020-0997]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; 
Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Noise 
Certification Standards for Subsonic Jet Airplanes and Subsonic 
Transport Category Large Airplanes

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 
invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information 
collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period 
soliciting comments on the following collection of information was 
published on October 21, 2020.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by January 21, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments on 
the proposed information collection to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Comments should be 
addressed to the attention of the Desk Officer, Department of 
Transportation/FAA, and sent via electronic mail to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to 
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management 
and Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, 
DC 20503.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sandy Liu by email at: 
sandy.liu@faa.gov; phone: 202-267-4748

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The collection involves the noise 
certification regulations of 14 CFR part 36 for aircraft. This includes 
information collection requirements for the noise certification of 
subsonic aircraft--jet airplanes and subsonic transport category large 
airplanes, small propeller driven airplanes and rotorcraft. The 
information collected are the results of noise certification tests that 
demonstrate compliance with 14 CFR part 36. The original information 
collection was implemented to show compliance in accordance with the 
Aircraft Noise Abatement Act of 1968; that statute is now part of the 
overall codification of the FAA's regulatory authority over aircraft 
noise in 49 U.S.C. 44715. The noise compliance report is used by the 
FAA in making a finding that the airplane is in noise compliance with 
the regulations. These compliance reports are required only once when 
an applicant wants to certificate an aircraft type. Without this data 
collection, the FAA would be unable to make the required noise 
certification compliance finding.
    OMB Control Number: 2120-0659.
    Title: Noise Certification Standards for Subsonic Jet Airplanes and 
Subsonic Transport Category Large Airplanes.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Type of Review: Renewal of an information collection.
    Background: The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment 
period soliciting comments on the following collection of information 
was published on October 21, 2020 (85 FR 67089). The aircraft noise 
information collected are the results of noise certification tests that 
demonstrate compliance with 14 CFR part 36. The original information 
collection was implemented to show compliance in accordance with the 
Aircraft Noise Abatement Act of 1968; that statute is now part of the 
overall codification of the FAA's regulatory authority over aircraft 
noise in 49 U.S.C. 44715. For the recent NPRM, the FAA proposes to 
revise this PRA collection to include noise test data collections of 
supersonic aircraft, for an increased estimate of 16 total noise 
certification projects per year. Each applicant's collected information 
is incorporated into a noise compliance report that is provided to and 
approved by the FAA. The noise compliance report is used by the FAA in 
making a finding that the airplane is in noise compliance with the 
regulations. These compliance reports are required only once when an 
applicant wants to certificate an aircraft type. Without this data 
collection, the FAA would be unable to make the required noise 
certification compliance finding.
    Respondents: Aircraft manufacturer/applicant seeking type 
certification;
    Frequency: Estimated 14 total applicants per year;
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: Estimated 200 hours per 
applicant for the compliance report; and
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: $25,000 per applicant or cumulative 
total $350,000 per year for 14 applicants.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for FAA's performance; (b) the 
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to enhance the 
quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (d) 
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of 
the collected information. The agency will summarize and/or include 
your comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this information 
collection.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2020.
Sandy Liu,
Engineer, Office of Environment and Energy, Noise Division (AEE-100).
[FR Doc. 2020-28225 Filed 12-21-20; 8:45 am]
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