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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.95.
Issued in Washington, DC on September
28, 2018.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2013–0074]

Request OMB Clearance for Agency
Request for Reinstatement of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection: Foreign Air Carrier
Application for Statement of
Authorization
Department of Transportation
(DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Department of Transportation, Office of
the Secretary invite the general public,
industry and other governmental parties
to comment on the Foreign Air Carrier
Application for Statement of
Authorization. The pre-existing
information collection request
previously approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) expired
on May 31, 2017.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by December 3, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Darren Jaffe, (202) 366–2512, Office of
International Aviation, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Room W86–441,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are
from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
ADDRESSES: You may submit a comment
to Docket No. DOT–OST–2013–0074
through one of the following methods:
Website: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments on the FDMS electronic
docket site.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the
ground level of the West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Wednesday and
Federal Holidays.

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Instructions: All comments must
include the agency name and FDMS
Docket No. DOT–OST–2013–0074. Note
that all comments received will be
posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. You
should know that 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 February 3, 2006
(71 FR 5780), or you may visit http://
www.regulations.gov.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Wednesday and Federal
holidays.
If you wish to receive confirmation of
receipt of your written comments,
please include a self-addressed,
stamped postcard with the following
statement: ‘‘Comments on Docket No.
DOT–OST–2013–0074.’’ The Docket
Clerk will date stamp the postcard prior
to returning it to you via the U.S. mail.
Please note that due to delays in the
delivery of U.S. mail to Federal offices
in Washington, DC, we recommend that
persons consider an alternative method
(internet, fax, or professional delivery
service) to submit comments to the
docket and to ensure their timely receipt
at U.S. DOT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No. 2106–0035.
Title: Foreign Air Carrier Application
for Statement of Authorization.
Form No.: Form OST 4540.
Type of Review: Reinstatement of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection.
Respondents: Foreign Air Carriers.
Number of Respondents:
Approximately 100.
Estimated Time per Response: 2.25
hours per application.
Total Annual Burden: 1,000 hours.
Abstract: Applicants use Form OST
4540 to request statements of
authorization to conduct numerous
types of operations authorized under
Title 14, CFR part 212. The form
requires basic information regarding the
carrier(s) conducting the operation, the
party filing the form, the operations
being conducted, the number of third-

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and fourth-freedom flights conducted in
the last twelve-month period, and
certification of reciprocity from the
carrier’s homeland government. DOT
analysts will use the information
collected to determine if applications
for fifth-freedom operations meet the
public interest requirements necessary
to authorize such applications.
Burden Statement: We estimate that
the industry-wide total hour burden for
this collection to be approximately
1,000 hours or approximately 2.25 hours
per application. Conservatively, we
estimate the compilation of background
information will require 1.75 hours, and
the completion and submission of OST
Form 4540 will require thirty (30)
minutes. Reporting the number of thirdand fourth-freedom operations
conducted by an applicant carrier will
require collection of flight data, and
detailed analysis to determine which
flights conducted by the carrier are
third- and fourth-freedom. Applicants
should be able to use data collected for
the Department’s T–100 program to
provide this information (under this
program, carriers are required
periodically to compile and report
certain traffic data to the Department, as
more fully described in the Docket
referenced in footnote 1 below). The
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS) provide carriers with a computer
program that allows them to compile
and monitor, among other things, flight
origin and destination data, to be used
in making the carriers’ T–100
submissions.1 We estimated that carriers
will require 1.25 hours per application 2
to compile and analyze the data
necessary to disclose the number of
third- and fourth-freedom flights
conducted within the twelve-month
period preceding the filing of an
application.
Foreign carriers will also have to
provide evidence that their homeland
government will afford reciprocity to
U.S. carriers seeking authority for the
similar fifth-, sixth- and seventhfreedom operations. Carriers may cite
certifications submitted by carriers from
the same homeland if that homeland
1 The rule-making associated with the T–100
program can be found on the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) at http://
www.regulations.gov, in Docket DOT–OST–1998–
4043. Information regarding burden hours is on file
in the Office of Aviation Analysis (X–50).
2 The Office of Aviation Analysis (X–50)
estimated that small-carriers would require 1
burden hour per report, and large carriers would
require 3 burden hours per report to analyze and
report T–100 program data. Considering that the
data required in this information collection can be
derived from data already collected, we have taken
an average of the estimated time required, and
conservatively shortened the time by 45 minutes
because no new data entry will be required.

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issued such certification within the
preceding six-month period.
Approximately 100 carriers from
roughly 30 distinct homelands use OST
Form 4540 to apply for statements of
authorization annually. We estimate
that one foreign carrier from any given
homeland will expend roughly 4 hours
every six-months to obtain certification
from its homeland governments.3 We
have apportioned 30 minutes to each
application to account for the time
required to obtain certifications from
homeland governments.
We have no empirical data to indicate
how much time is required for a person
to complete OST Form 4540; however,
anecdotal evidence reveals that
respondents spend thirty (30) minutes
or less completing the form and brief
justification. In some cases, respondents
spend a limited amount of time, less
than ten (10) minutes, reviewing the
form before sending it via facsimile or
email to the Department. In the interest
of providing a conservative estimate so
as to not understate the burden hours,
we estimate the hour burden for
completing OST Form 4540 as thirty
(30) minutes.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for the Office of the
Secretary’s performance; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3)
ways for the Office of the Secretary to
enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the collected information; and
(4) 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.
All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September
14, 2018.
Brian J. Hedberg,
Director, Office of the International Aviation.
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3 Calculation: (4 burden hours per application) ×
(30 foreign homelands) × (2 requests per year) = 240
annual burden hours. Apportioning 240 annual
burden hours equally among an average of 430
applications annually = approximately 30 burden
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. OST–2018–0128]

Privacy Act of 1974; Department of
Transportation, Office of the Secretary
of Transportation; DOT/ALL 26;
Department of Transportation Insider
Threat Program
Office of the Departmental
Chief Information Officer, Office of the
Secretary of Transportation, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Privacy Act system of
records.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of
Transportation (DOT) intends to
establish a system of records titled,
‘‘DOT/ALL 26, Insider Threat Program.’’
This system of records will allow DOT
to administer an insider threat program,
including identification of potential
external foreign intelligence risks and
insider threats, and to maintain
information regarding
counterintelligence or insider threat
inquiries. This system will be included
in the Department of Transportation’s
inventory of record systems.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted on or before November 2,
2018 The Department may publish an
amended SORN in light of any
comments received. This new system
will take effect November 2, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number OST–
2018–0128 by any of the following
methods:
• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Ave. 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 Ave. SE, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal Holidays.
• Fax: (202) 493–2251.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name and docket number OST–
2018–0128. All comments received will
be posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received in any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
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business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s system of records notice
for dockets in the Federal Register
notice published on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316–3317).
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov or to the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions, please contact: Claire W.
Barrett, Departmental Chief Privacy
Officer, Privacy Office, Department of
Transportation, Washington, DC 20590;
[email protected]; or (202) 366–8135.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In accordance with the Privacy Act of
1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the United States
Department of Transportation (DOT)
proposes to create a new DOT system of
records titled, ‘‘DOT/ALL–26 Insider
Threat Program.’’ This system of records
is created as a DOT/ALL system because
records are maintained for this program
by the Office of the Secretary (OST) and
the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), two DOT components. This
system of records notice only applies to
records maintained by the Office of the
Secretary and the Federal Aviation
Administration’s Insider Threat
Programs. There are no other
components within DOT authorized to
administer an insider threat program.
The term ‘‘DOT Insider Threat Program’’
refers to the insider threat program
administered by both OST and the FAA.
Executive Order 13587, Structural
Reforms to Improve the Security of
Classified Networks and the Responsible
Sharing and Safeguarding of Classified
Information, directs Federal
departments and agencies to establish
insider threat programs consistent with
guidance and standards developed by
the National Insider Threat Task Force,
which was established under section 6
of Executive Order 13587. The National
Insider Threat Policy and Minimum
Standards for Executive Branch Insider
Threat Programs were issued in
November 2012. As described in
Executive Order 13587 and the National
Insider Threat Policy and Minimum
Standards for Executive Branch Insider
Threat Programs, insider threat
programs are intended to deter and
detect insider threats and mitigate the
risks associated with an individual
using his or her authorized access to
Government information and facilities
to do harm to the security of the United
States. This insider threat may include
espionage, terrorism, unauthorized

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