[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 30, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16653-16655]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06490]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2020-1051]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; 
Clearance of New Approval of Information Collection: Unmanned Aircraft 
Systems (UAS) BEYOND and Partnership for Safety Plan (PSP) Programs

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 for a new information

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collection. The collection involves data and report submissions by 
State, local and tribal participants in the UAS BEYOND program, and by 
industry participants in the Partnership for Safety Plan (PSP) program. 
UAS BEYOND and PSP participants will also conduct qualitative, non-
statistical surveys of the general public. The information to be 
collected will be used to inform FAA policy and decision-making 
regarding integrating UAS into the National Airspace System.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by June 1, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Please send written comments:

By Electronic Docket: www.regulations.gov (Enter docket number into 
search field)
By Mail: Corbin Jones, Federal Aviation Administration, 470 L'Enfant 
Plaza, Washington, DC 20024
By Fax: 202-267-4193

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Corbin Jones by email at: 
corbin.t.jones@faa.gov; phone: 202-641-8950.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    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.
    OMB Control Number: 2120-XXXX.
    Title: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) BEYOND and Partnership for 
Safety Plan (PSP) Programs.
    Form Numbers:

 UAS Flight Anomaly Report (Pending)
 UAS Characteristics Report (Pending)
 Standard UAS Monthly Operational Flight Report (Pending)
 Part 107 UAS Monthly Operational Flight Report (Pending)
 44807 UAS Monthly Operational Flight Report (Pending)
 40102(a)_41025 COA UAS Monthly Operational Flight Report 
(Pending)
 UAS Monthly Maintenance Report (Pending)
 UAS Test Data Submission Form (Pending)
 BEYOND Semi-Annual Report (Pending)
 PSP Quarterly Report (Pending)
 BEYOND Final Report (Pending)
 PSP Final Report (Pending)
 Community Engagement Data Submission Form (Pending)
 Societal and Economic Data Submission Form (Pending)
 BEYOND Program Withdrawal Report (Pending)
 Community Engagement Tool (Pending)

    Type of Review: New information collection. Background: The data 
collected during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) BEYOND and 
Partnership for Safety Plan (PSP) programs is delineated as part of the 
Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) each 
Lead Participant or industry partner participant signs with the FAA, 
and entered into under the authority of 49 U.S.C. 106(l) and (m). There 
are five types of data collection.
    First, participants submit narrative reports to inform the FAA of 
operational trends, and highlight successes and failures and their 
causes. The purpose of the narrative reports is to help the FAA make 
policy and resource decisions, especially in regards to the challenges 
and lessons learned in integrating UAS into the NAS. These include 
Semi-Annual, Final and Program Withdrawal Reports for the UAS BEYOND 
program and Quarterly and Final Reports for the PSP program.
    Second, participants submit systems and operations data, including 
UAS Data, Maintenance Data, Operational Flight Data, Test Data and 
Anomaly Data. The purpose of these submissions is to inform policy and 
decision-making related to the risks associated with operations 
involving command and control (C2) links, DAA capabilities, anomaly 
detection and a host of other categories, in order to solve challenges 
in enabling UAS BVLOS operations and to fully integrate various 
operation types into the NAS.
    Third, participants submit quantitative and qualitative data 
related to the societal and economic benefits of their UAS operations. 
The information will be used to inform FAA policy and decision-making 
toward integrating different types of operations into the NAS, and to 
inform discussions with the public on the benefits of using UAS. These 
will be submitted with the Semi-Annual BEYOND reports or the Quarterly 
PSP reports.
    Fourth, participants submit quantitative and qualitative data 
related to their community engagement activities. The information will 
be used to inform FAA policy and decision-making on how to best engage 
the public in discussions about the use of UAS in their communities, 
and to give insight into the public's desire or resistance toward 
approvals of different types of operations in various communities. 
These will be submitted with the Semi-Annual BEYOND reports or the 
Quarterly PSP reports.
    Fifth, participants collect and submit data collected from the 
general public using questions provided in community engagement tool. 
The objective is to gather general information about community 
sentiment to be shared within FAA and with external stakeholders, and 
to assist in the development of artifacts such as best practices and 
lessons learned documents. Those artifacts can then be shared with UAS 
stakeholders to help inform their stakeholder engagement activities. It 
is not meant to be statistical in nature, nor to provide statistically 
significant information for policy or decision-making. This data will 
be submitted with the Semi-Annual BEYOND reports or the Quarterly PSP 
reports.
    Respondents: Depending on the submission, the respondents are three 
groups:

1. Business or other for-profit--PSP participants only
2. State, Local or Tribal Government--BEYOND participants only
3. Individuals or Households

    See the following table for details.
    Frequency: The frequency depends on the report or form. See the 
following table for details.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: Depending on the submission, 
the overall estimated average burden per response varies from 5 minutes 
to 80 hours. See the following table for details.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: The estimated total annual burden 
for all submissions is 17,190.91 hours. See the following table for a 
breakdown by report or form.

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                                                                                                                                 Estimated    Estimated
                                                                                                                      Total       average       total
                Submission                        Affected public                 Frequency            Number of    number of    burden per     annual
                                                                                                      respondents   responses     response      burden
                                                                                                                                  (hours)      (hours)
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                                                          Reports and Accompanying Submissions
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PSP Quarterly Submissions................  Business or other for-        Quarterly..................         7.00        28.00        80.00     2,240.00
                                            profit, PSP participants
                                            only.
BEYOND Semi-Annual Submissions...........  State, Local or Tribal        Semi-Annually..............        12.00        24.00        80.00     1,920.00
                                            Government, BEYOND
                                            participants only.
PSP and BEYOND Final Reports.............  Business or other for-        One-Time Submission........        19.00         6.33        40.00       253.33
                                            profit--PSP participants
                                            only, and State, Local or
                                            Tribal Government--BEYOND
                                            participants only.
BEYOND Program Withdrawal Reports........  State, Local or Tribal        Occasional.................        12.00         4.00        40.00       160.00
                                            Government, BEYOND
                                            participants only.
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                                                               Systems and Operations Data
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UAS Monthly Operational Flight Reports     Business or other for-        Monthly....................        19.00       456.00         1.00       456.00
 and Maintenance Reports.                   profit--PSP participants
                                            only, and State, Local or
                                            Tribal Government--BEYOND
                                            participants only.
UAS Aircraft Characteristics Submissions.  Business or other for-        On Occasion--for each New          19.00       475.00         0.20        95.00
                                            profit--PSP participants      Aircraft--Assuming average
                                            only, and State, Local or     25 annual submissions.
                                            Tribal Government--BEYOND
                                            participants only.
UAS Anomaly Reports......................  Business or other for-        On Occasion--Assuming 10           19.00       190.00         1.00       190.00
                                            profit--PSP participants      annually per participant.
                                            only, and State, Local or
                                            Tribal Government--BEYOND
                                            participants only.
Optional Ad Hoc Test Data Submissions....  Business or other for-        Ad hoc.....................        19.00        19.00         0.08         1.58
                                            profit--PSP participants
                                            only, and State, Local or
                                            Tribal Government--BEYOND
                                            participants only.
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Community Engagement Tool................  Individuals or Households...  On Occasion................    47,500.00    47,500.00         0.25    11,875.00
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    Totals...............................  ............................  ...........................    47,626.00    48,702.33         0.35    17,190.91
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    Issued in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2021.
Corbin Jones,
Support Team Manager, BEYOND Program, Unmanned Aircraft Systems 
Integration Office, Federal Aviation Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-06490 Filed 3-29-21; 8:45 am]
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