Notice2023-01405
Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Program
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Published
January 25, 2023
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The collection involves a request that airplane operators subject to the applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of the Convention on Civil Aviation (hereinafter the "Chicago Convention") submit electronically an Emissions Monitoring Plan (EMP), an annual Emissions Report (ER) to the FAA. Airplane operators may also submit an optional ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex (CEFA) to the FAA if they want to receive credit for their use of CORSIA Eligible Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) or Lower Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF). The information to be collected is necessary because FAA will use the information to fulfill the United States' responsibilities under the Chicago Convention
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4878-4880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01405]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Docket No. FAA-2022-1711]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Carbon
Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Program
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
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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 Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information
collection. The collection involves a request that airplane operators
subject to the applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of the Convention
on Civil Aviation (hereinafter the ``Chicago Convention'') submit
electronically an Emissions Monitoring Plan (EMP), an annual Emissions
Report (ER) to the FAA. Airplane operators may also submit an optional
ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex (CEFA) to the FAA if they want to
receive credit for their use of CORSIA Eligible Sustainable Aviation
Fuel (SAF) or Lower Carbon Aviation Fuel (LCAF). The information to be
collected is necessary because FAA will use the information to fulfill
the United States' responsibilities under the Chicago Convention
DATES: Written comments should be submitted by March 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Please send written comments:
By Electronic Docket: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (Enter docket number into
search field).
By mail: Kevin Partowazam, Federal Aviation Administration, AEE-5,
800 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20591.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Partowazam by email at:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a3c8c6d5cacd8dd3c2d1d7ccd4c2d9c2cee3c5c2c28dc4ccd5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="95fef0e3fcfbbbe5f4e7e1fae2f4eff4f8d5f3f4f4bbf2fae3">[email protected]</span></a>; phone: 202-267-3563.
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: 2120-0790.
Title: CORSIA Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
Program.
Form Numbers: 1. Emissions Monitoring Plan (EMP) Template; 2.
Emissions Report (ER) Template; 3. ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex
(CEFA).
Type of Review: Clearance of a renewal of an information
collection.
Background: The CORSIA MRV Program is a voluntary program for
certain U.S. air carriers and commercial operators (collectively
referred hereinafter as ``operators'') to submit certain airplane
CO<INF>2</INF> emissions data to the FAA to enable the United States to
establish uniformity with ICAO Standards And Recommended Practices
(SARPs) for CORSIA, which were adopted in June 2018, as Annex 16,
Volume IV to the Chicago Convention. The United States supported the
decision to adopt the CORSIA SARPs based on the understanding that
CORSIA is the exclusive market-based measure applying to international
aviation, and that CORSIA will ensure fair and reciprocal commercial
competition by avoiding a patchwork of country- or regionally-based
regulatory measures that are inconsistently applied, bureaucratically
costly, and economically damaging. Furthermore, continued U.S. support
for CORSIA assumes a high level of participation by other countries,
particularly by countries with significant aviation activity, as well
as a final CORSIA package that is acceptable to, and implementable by,
the United States.
Under CORSIA, all ICAO Member States whose airplane operators
undertake international flights will have needed to develop an MRV
system for CO<INF>2</INF> emissions from those international flights
starting January 1, 2019. The FAA's CORSIA MRV Program is intended to
be the United States' MRV system for monitoring, reporting, and
verification of U.S. airplane operator CO<INF>2</INF> emissions from
international flights.
Operators that are subject to the applicability of CORSIA will
submit their EMPs, ERs, and ER CEFAs electronically.\1\
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\1\ CORSIA applies to airplane operators that produce annual
CO<INF>2</INF> emissions greater than 10,000 tonnes (i.e., 10,000
metric tons) from international flights, excluding emissions from
excluded flights. The following activities are excluded CORSIA:
--Domestic flights;
--Humanitarian, medical, and firefighting operations, including
flight(s) preceding or following a humanitarian, medical, or
firefighting flight provided such flight(s) were conducted with the
same airplane, were required to accomplish the related humanitarian,
medical, or firefighting activities or to reposition thereafter the
airplane for its next activity;
--Operations using an airplane with a maximum certificated take-
off mass equal to or less than 5,700 kg;
--Operations on behalf of the military.
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Each document uses Microsoft Excel-based templates and can be
transmitted via email or uploaded to a web portal. EMPs that are
submitted by operators will be used as a collaborative tool between the
operator and FAA to document a given operator's chosen fuel use
monitoring procedures. FAA will retain a copy of the EMP and will share
with ICAO a list of operators that submit EMPs. FAA will not submit any
specific EMPs from U.S. operators to ICAO. Large operators, i.e., those
emitting 500,000 metric tons or more of CO<INF>2</INF> per year, will
gather data through a ``fuel use monitoring method.'' Small operators,
i.e., those emitting less than 500,000 metric tons of CO<INF>2</INF>
per year, can use a simplified monitoring method. Annual ERs and
optional ER CEFAs that are submitted to FAA by operators and verifiers
will be used to document each operators' international emissions. FAA
will use the ERs and ER CEFAs to calculate aggregated emissions data
for all U.S. operators. FAA will submit the aggregated emissions data
to ICAO to demonstrate U.S. implementation of CORSIA.
Respondents: Respondents will be airplane operators subject to the
applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of the Chicago Convention. Since
the CORSIA MRV Program was originally launched, FAA received 30 EMPs
from participating operators, along with an annual ER from each. Some
additional operators could submit an EMP and ER over time based on
their international aviation activities.
Frequency: An EMP is a one-time submission. An ER, and optional ER
CEFA, is an annual submission.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: FAA expects that filling and
submitting an EMP could take an average of approximately 28.6 hours per
operator. FAA expects that for operators using a Fuel Use Monitoring
Method, the reporting hour burden could be approximately 47.5 hours per
operator, per year. For operators using a simplified Monitoring Method,
the reporting hour burden could be approximately 16 hours per operator,
per year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: Based on the above, FAA expects that
the average annual submission of an ER could take approximately 49.4
hours per operator, per year. For operators using a Fuel Use Monitoring
Method, this includes 60 hours per operator, per year for filling and
reporting an ER and an additional potential 8 hours for filling and
reporting the ER CEFA. For operators using simplified Monitoring
Methods, this includes 17.5 hours per operator, per year for filling
and reporting an ER and an additional potential 4 hours for filling and
reporting the ER CEFA.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2023.
Kevin Welsh,
Executive Director, Office of Environment and Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023-01405 Filed 1-24-23; 8:45 am]
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