Notice2024-19825
Intent To Request Extension From OMB of One Current Public Collection of Information: Imposition and Collection of Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fees
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Published
September 4, 2024
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Homeland Security DepartmentTransportation Security Administration
Abstract
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites public comment on one currently approved Information Collection Request (ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0001, abstracted below that we will submit to OMB for an extension in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The collection involves air carriers maintaining an accounting system for the passenger civil aviation security service fees collected and reporting this information to TSA on a quarterly basis, as well as retaining the data used for these reports for three fiscal years.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19825]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
[Docket No. TSA-2001-11120]
Intent To Request Extension From OMB of One Current Public
Collection of Information: Imposition and Collection of Passenger Civil
Aviation Security Service Fees
AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) invites
public comment on one currently approved Information Collection Request
(ICR), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number 1652-0001,
abstracted below that we will submit to OMB for an extension in
compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. The
collection involves air carriers maintaining an accounting system for
the passenger civil aviation security service fees collected and
reporting this information to TSA on a quarterly basis, as well as
retaining the data used for these reports for three fiscal years.
DATES: Send your comments by November 4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d286819382809392a6a1b3fcb6baa1fcb5bda4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="287c7b69787a69685c5b49064c405b064f475e">[email protected]</span></a> or delivered
to the TSA PRA Officer, Information Technology (IT), TSA-11,
Transportation Security Administration, 6595 Springfield Center Drive,
Springfield, VA 20598-6011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina A. Walsh at the above
address, or by telephone (571) 227-2062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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="https://www.reginfo.gov">https://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
OMB Control Number 1652-0001; Imposition and Collection of
Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fees. In accordance with 49
U.S.C. 44940 and relevant TSA Regulations, see 49 CFR part 1510, TSA
imposes a Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fee (September 11th
Security Fee) on passengers of both foreign and domestic air carriers
(``air carriers'') on air transportation originating at airports in the
United States.
The September 11th Security Fee is collected by air carriers and
remitted to TSA, which then transmits the fees to the U.S. Treasury
Department to help offset the Federal Government's costs of providing
civil aviation security services and other purposes designated by 49
U.S.C. 44940. This information collection requires air carriers to
submit to TSA information regarding the amount of September 11th
Security Fees an air carrier has imposed, collected, refunded to
passengers, and remitted to TSA. The retention of this data is
necessary for TSA to ensure the proper imposition, collection, and
regulation the September 11th Security Fee. Additionally, TSA collects
the information to monitor carrier compliance with the fee requirements
and for auditing purposes. Air carriers are required to retain this
information for three years. Specifically, information collected during
a given fiscal year (FY) (October 1 through September 30) must be
retained through three subsequent fiscal years. For example,
information collected during fiscal year 2020 must be retained through
fiscal year 2023.
TSA's regulations require air carriers to impose and collect the
fee on passengers, and to remit the fee to TSA by the final day of the
calendar month following the month in which the fee was collected. See
49 CFR 1510.13. Air
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carriers are further required to submit quarterly reports to TSA, which
indicate the amount of fees imposed, collected, and refunded to
passengers, and remitted to TSA. See 49 CFR 1510.17.
TSA has suspended a requirement for each air carrier that collects
security service fees from more than 50,000 passengers annually to
submit to TSA an annual independent audit, performed by an independent
certified public accountant, of its security service fee activities and
accounts. See 49 CFR 1510.15. Although the annual independent audit
requirements were suspended on January 23, 2003 (see 68 FR 3192), TSA
conducts its own audits of the air carriers. See 49 CFR 1510.11.
Notwithstanding the suspension of the audit requirements, air carriers
must establish and maintain an accounting system to account for the
security service fees imposed, collected, refunded to passengers, and
remitted to TSA. See 49 CFR 1510.15(a).
TSA is seeking an extension of this collection to require air
carriers to continue submitting the quarterly reports to TSA, and to
require air carriers to retain the information for three fiscal years
after the fiscal year in which the information was collected. This
requirement includes retaining the source information for the quarterly
reports remitted to TSA as well as the calculations performed to create
the reports submitted to TSA. Should the annual audit requirement be
reinstated, the requirement would include information and documents
reviewed and prepared for the independent audit; the accountant's
working papers, notes, worksheets, and other relevant documentation
used in the audit; and, if applicable, the specific information leading
to the accountant's opinion, including any determination that the
accountant could not provide an audit opinion. Although TSA suspended
the independent audit requirement, TSA conducts audits of the air
carriers, and therefore, requires air carriers to retain and provide
the same information as required for the quarterly reports and
independent audits.
TSA has incorporated minor adjustments to the figures used to
estimate the costs of this ICR. The adjustments consider changes in the
number of regulated air carriers and various administrative cost rates
since the previous extension. TSA estimates that 188 total respondent
air carriers will each spend approximately 1 hour to prepare and submit
each quarterly report. TSA estimates that these respondents will incur
a total of 752 hours (188 carriers x 4 quarterly reports x 1 hour per
report) to satisfy the quarterly reporting requirements annually.
TSA estimates 301 total responses from all respondent air carriers
(188 plus 113, should the annual audit requirement be reinstated), with
3,012 burden hours (752 hours for quarterly reports and 2,260 hours for
audits) annually to satisfy the quarterly report and audit
requirements.
Dated: August 29, 2024.
Christina A. Walsh,
TSA Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2024-19825 Filed 9-3-24; 8:45 am]
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