Notice2022-00894
Revision of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: Flight Training Security
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Published
January 19, 2022
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Homeland Security DepartmentTransportation Security Administration
Abstract
This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0021, abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of a revision 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 the submission of identifying information for background checks for all non-U.S. citizens, non-U.S. nationals and other designated individuals seeking flight instruction ("candidates") from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)- certificated flight training providers. Through the information collected, TSA will determine whether a candidate is a threat to aviation or national security, and thus prohibited from receiving flight training. Additionally, flight training providers are required to conduct a security awareness program for their employees and contract employees and to maintain records associated with this training.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2889-2890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-00894]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA-2004-19147]
Revision of Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB
Review: Flight Training Security
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 1652-0021,
abstracted below to OMB for review and approval of a revision 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 the submission of identifying
information for background checks for all non-U.S. citizens, non-U.S.
nationals and other designated individuals seeking flight instruction
(``candidates'') from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-
certificated flight training providers. Through the information
collected, TSA will determine whether a candidate is a threat to
aviation or national security, and thus prohibited from receiving
flight training. Additionally, flight training providers are required
to conduct a security awareness program for their employees and
contract employees and to maintain records associated with this
training.
DATES: Send your comments by February 18, 2022. 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the find 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c296918392908382b6b1a3eca6aab1eca5adb4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="22767163727063625651430c464a510c454d54">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TSA published a Federal Register notice,
with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following
collection of information on August 25, 2021, 86 FR 47507.
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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">http://www.reginfo.gov</a> 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: Flight Training Security.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
OMB Control Number: 1652-0021.
Forms(s): N/A.
Affected Public: Candidates, as defined in 49 CFR 1552.1, seeking
flight instruction from FAA-certificated flight training providers and
flight training providers required to conduct security awareness
training and their employees.
Abstract: This information collection relates to regulations issued
by TSA for flight training providers. There are two parts to the
collection. First, under 49 CFR part 1552, subpart A, the collection
relates to the security threat assessments (STAs) that TSA requires to
determine whether candidates are a threat to aviation or national
security, and thus prohibited from receiving flight training. This
collection of information requires FAA-certificated flight training
providers to provide TSA with the information necessary to conduct the
STAs. Second, under 49 CFR part 1552, subpart B, the collection relates
to security awareness training for flight training provider employees
and contract employees, which includes maintaining records of all such
training.
TSA is revising the information collection by changing the name of
the collection from ``Flight Training for Aliens and Other Designated
Individuals; Security Awareness Training for Flight School Employees''
to ``Flight Training Security.''
Number of Respondents: 39,496.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An estimated 103,816 hours
annually.\1\
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\1\ Since the publication of the 60-day notice, TSA has updated
the burden hours from 99,564 to 103,816 annual hours.
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Estimated Annual Cost Burden: $7,018,816.
Dated: January 10, 2022.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2022-00894 Filed 1-18-22; 8:45 am]
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