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0031. The postcard will be date/time
stamped and returned.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
DOT–OST–2014–0031 by any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Services: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202–366–3383.
Instructions: Identify docket number,
DOT–OST–2014–0031, at the beginning
of your comments, and send two copies.
To receive confirmation that DOT
received your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet
users may access all comments received
by DOT at http://www.regulations.gov.
All comments are posted electronically
without charge or edits, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477–78) or you may visit http://
DocketInfo.dot.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov. or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
Electronic Access: You may access
comments received for this notice at
http://www.regulations.gov, by
searching docket DOT–OST–2014–0031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No. 2138–0009.
Title: Report of Financial and
Operating Statistics for Small Aircraft
Operators.
Form No.: BTS Form 298–C.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection for the
financial data.
Respondents: Small certificated (29)
and commuter air carriers (35).
Schedule F1
Number of Respondents: 64.

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Number of Annual responses: 256.
Total Burden per Response: 4 hours.
Total Annual Burden: 1,024 hours.
Schedule F2
Number of Respondents: 29.
Number of Annual responses: 116.
Total Burden per Response: 12 hours.
Total Annual Burden: 1,392 hours.
Needs and Uses: Program uses for
Form 298–C financial data are as
follows:
Mail Rates
The Department of Transportation
sets and updates the Intra-Alaska Bush
mail rates based on carrier aircraft
operating expense, traffic, and
operational data. Form 298–C cost data,
especially fuel costs, terminal expenses,
and line haul expenses are used in
arriving at rate levels. DOT revises the
established rates based on the
percentage of unit cost changes in the
carriers’ operations. These updating
procedures have resulted in the carriers
receiving rates of compensation that
more closely parallel their costs of
providing mail service and contribute to
the carriers’ economic well-being.
Essential Air Service
DOT often has to select a carrier to
provide a community’s essential air
service. The selection criteria include
historic presence in the community,
reliability of service, financial stability
and cost structure of the air carrier.
Carrier Fitness
Fitness determinations are made for
both new entrants and established U.S.
domestic carriers proposing a
substantial change in operations. A
portion of these applications consists of
an operating plan for the first year (14
CFR part 204) and an associated
projection of revenues and expenses.
The carrier’s operating costs, included
in these projections, are compared
against the cost data in Form 298–C for
a carrier or carriers with the same
aircraft type and similar operating
characteristics. Such a review validates
the reasonableness of the carrier’s
operating plan.
The quarterly financial submissions
by commuter and small certificated air
carriers are used in determining each
carrier’s continuing fitness to operate.
Section 41738 of Title 49 of the United
States Code requires DOT to find all
commuter and small certificated air
carriers fit, willing, and able to conduct
passenger service as a prerequisite to
providing such service to an eligible
essential air service point. In making a
fitness determination, DOT reviews
three areas of a carrier’s operation: (1)

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The qualifications of its management
team, (2) its disposition to comply with
laws and regulations, and (3) its
financial posture. DOT must determine
whether or not a carrier has sufficient
financial resources to conduct its
operations without imposing undue risk
on the traveling public. Moreover, once
a carrier begins conducting flight
operations, DOT is required to monitor
its continuing fitness.
Senior DOT officials must be kept
fully informed and advised of all
current and developing economic issues
affecting the airline industry. In
preparing financial condition reports or
status reports on a particular airline,
financial and traffic data are analyzed.
Briefing papers prepared for senior DOT
officials may use the same information.
The Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires
a statistical agency to clearly identify
information it collects for non-statistical
purposes. BTS hereby notifies the
respondents and the public that BTS
uses the information it collects under
this OMB approval for non-statistical
purposes including, but not limited to,
publication of both Respondent’s
identity and its data, submission of the
information to agencies outside BTS for
review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative
matters.
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 16,
2018.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2018–01183 Filed 1–22–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900–0772]

Agency Information Collection
Activity: VA Cooperative Studies
Program
Veterans Health
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, this notice announces that the
Veterans Health Administration,
Department of Veterans Affairs, will
submit the collection of information
abstracted below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The PRA
submission describes the nature of the

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information collection and its expected
cost and burden and it includes the
actual data collection instrument.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before February 22, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the collection of information through
www.Regulations.gov, or to Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, Attn:
VA Desk Officer, 725 17th St. NW,
Washington, DC 20503 or sent through
electronic mail to oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov. Please refer to ‘‘OMB
Control No. 2900–0772’’ in any
correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia Harvey-Pryor, Office of Quality,
Privacy and Risk (OQPR), Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461–
5870 or email cynthia.harvey-pryor@
va.gov. Please refer to ‘‘OMB Control
No. 2900–0772’’ in any correspondence.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Authority: 38 U.S.C. Part 1, Chapter 5,
Section 527

Title: VA Cooperative Studies
Program (CSP):
VA Form 10–10074, CSP Customer
Satisfaction Survey.
VA Form 10–10074a, Meeting
Evaluation.
OMB Control Number: 2900–0772.
Type of Review: Reinstatement of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: The information collected
will be used by VA Cooperative Studies
Program (CSP) leadership to evaluate
their Coordinating Centers’ effectiveness
in conducting meetings and interacting
with participating study sites and other
customers.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on this collection

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of information was published at 82 FR
51482 on November 6, 2017, pages
51482–51483.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Estimated Annual Burden:
VA Form 10–10074—83 hours.
VA Form 10–10074a—83 hours.
Estimated Average Burden Per
Respondent:
VA Form 10–10074—10 minutes.
VA Form 10–10074a—10 minutes.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
VA Form 10–10074—500.
VA Form 10–10074a—500.
By direction of the Secretary.
Cynthia Harvey-Pryor,
Department Clearance Officer, Office of
Quality, Privacy and Risk, Department of
Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2018–01105 Filed 1–22–18; 8:45 am]
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