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person level? How can the Department
gather this information while protecting
personal privacy?
(18) What are approaches that DOT
can take to ensure that individuals from
underserved populations are
represented in our data collection
efforts?
(19) How should the Department
develop a data collection framework,
gather new and existing data, set data
standards, and analyze and aggregate it
into useful information for
policymaking?
(20) How should the Department
engage industry on gathering more
detailed data on advanced safety
features in vehicles for evaluating if
technologies and their benefits are
disproportionately distributed among
different income and demographic
groups and whether such technologies
have equitable predictive performance
to improve safety for all citizens?
(21) How should the Department
engage industry to increase the data
available to understand electric vehicles
and vehicle hybridization with the
intent of understanding how these
technologies can benefit different
income and demographic groups; and to
improve the distribution and fairness in
the use of these technologies for all
citizens?

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Transportation Workforce Data
The Department is seeking input on
data and assessment tools and best
practices that may be used to
understand and to strengthen the
pipeline for more minority, women,
people of color, people with disabilities
and other underserved populations to
access opportunities, develop a robust
network, and build a supportive
environment that addresses their
structural barriers to opportunities and
wealth.
(22) What high-quality career
pathways programs or educational
pipelines have state and local
governments utilized or implemented to
diversify their transportation workforce?
What have the results been? How were
the results of the programs measured?
(23) What practices has the
transportation industry taken to increase
diversity and retain individuals from
underserved populations within its
workforce? How should the Department
measure the overall impacts, especially
the diversity impacts, on the workforce
through Federal funding, policies, and
programs?
(24) What tools and best practices
might the Department utilize to augment
minority and disadvantaged business
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the transportation industry, and jobs of
the future?
(25) What type of data should we
collect to measure the success of
workforce programs? How do we assess
if we are placing underserved
populations in these job programs and
into jobs; how do we track retention
rates and opportunities for
advancement; and how do we assess
whether these are good-paying jobs?
Public Participation
How do I prepare and submit
comments?
To ensure that your comments are
filed correctly, please include the
docket number provided in (DOT–OST–
2021–0056) in your comments.
Please submit one copy (two copies if
submitting by mail or hand delivery) of
your comments, including any
attachments, to the docket following the
instructions given above under
ADDRESSES. Please note, if you are
submitting comments electronically as a
PDF (Adobe) file, we ask that the
documents submitted be scanned using
an Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
process, thus allowing the Agency to
search and copy certain portions of your
submissions.
How do I submit confidential business
information?
Any submissions containing
Confidential Information must be
delivered to DOT in the following
manner:
• Submitted in a sealed envelope
marked ‘‘confidential treatment
requested’’;
• Document(s) or information that the
submitter would like withheld from the
public docket should be marked
‘‘PROPIN’’;
• Accompanied by an index listing
the document(s) or information that the
submitter would like the Departments to
withhold. The index should include
information such as numbers used to
identify the relevant document(s) or
information, document title and
description, and relevant page numbers
and/or section numbers within a
document; and
• Submitted with a statement
explaining the submitter’s grounds for
objecting to disclosing the information
to the public.
DOT will treat such marked
submissions as confidential under the
FOIA and not include them in the
public docket. DOT also requests that
submitters of Confidential Information
include a non-confidential version
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docket. If the submitter cannot provide
a non-confidential version of its
submission, DOT requests that the
submitter post a notice in the docket
stating that it has provided DOT with
Confidential Information. Should a
submitter fail to docket either a nonconfidential version of its submission or
to post a notice that Confidential
Information has been provided, we will
note the receipt of the submission on
the docket, with the submitter’s
organization or name (to the degree
permitted by law) and the date of
submission.
Will the Agency consider late
comments?
DOT will consider all comments
received before the close of business on
the comment closing date indicated
above under DATES. To the extent
practicable, the Agency will also
consider comments received after that
date.
How can I read the comments submitted
by other people?
You may read the comments received
at the address given above under
WRITTEN COMMENTS. The hours of
the docket are indicated above in the
same location. You may also see the
comments on the internet, identified by
the docket number at the heading of this
notice, at http://www.regulations.gov.
Please note, this RFI is a planning
document and will serve as such. The
RFI should not be construed as policy,
a solicitation for applications, or an
obligation on the part of the
government.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 13,
2021.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg,
Secretary, Department of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2021–10436 Filed 5–24–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
[Docket ID Number DOT–OST–2014–0031]

Agency Information Collection;
Activity Under OMB Review;
Submission of Audit Reports—Part 248
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice

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announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
extension of currently approved
collections. The ICR describes the
nature of the information collection and
its expected burden. The Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the
following collection of information was
published on March 15, 2021 (86 FR
14360). No comments were received.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by June 24, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Gorham, Office of Airline Information,
RTS–42, Room E34, OST–R, BTS, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590–0001, Telephone Number (202)
366–4406, Fax Number (202) 366–3383
or Email [email protected].
Comments: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No.: 2138–0004.
Title: Submission of Audit Reports—
Part 248.
Form No.: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Large certificated air
carriers.
Number of Respondents: 60.
Number of Responses: 60.
Total Burden per Response: 15
minutes.
Total Annual Burden: 15 hours.
Needs and Uses: BTS collects
independent audited financial reports
from U.S. certificated air carriers.
Carriers not having an annual audit
must file a statement that no such audit
has been performed. In lieu of the audit
report, BTS will accept the annual
report submitted to the stockholders.
The audited reports are needed by the
Department of Transportation as: (1) A
means to monitor an air carrier’s
continuing fitness to operate; (2)
reference material used by analysts in
examining foreign route cases; (3)
reference material used by analysts in
examining proposed mergers,
acquisitions and consolidations; (4) a
means whereby BTS sends a copy of the
report to the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) in fulfillment of a
United States treaty obligation; and, (5)
corroboration of a carrier’s Form 41
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The Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501), 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, and submission of
the information to agencies outside BTS
for review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative
matters.
Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department
concerning consumer protection.
Comments should address whether the
information will have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 20,
2021.
William Chadwick, Jr.,
Director, Office of Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
[FR Doc. 2021–11036 Filed 5–24–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
[Docket ID Number DOT–OST–2014–0031]

Agency Information Collection:
Activity Under OMB Review: Report of
Financial and Operating Statistics for
Large Certificated Air Carriers
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below is being forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
an extension of a currently approved
collection. The ICR describes the nature
of the information collection and its
expected burden. The Federal Register

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Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on March 11, 2021 (86 FR 13965). One
comment was received from the
Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Economic Analysis strongly supporting
the continued collection of this data.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by June 24, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Gorham, Office of Airline Information,
RTS–42, Room E34–414, OST–R, BTS,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001,
Telephone Number (202) 366–4406, Fax
Number (202) 366–3383 or Email
[email protected].
Comments: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No.: 2138–0013.
Title: Report of Financial and
Operating Statistics for Large
Certificated Air Carriers.
Form No.: BTS Form 41.
Type Of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Large certificated air
carriers.
Number of Respondents: 60.
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
per schedule, an average carrier may
submit 90 schedules in one year.
Total Annual Burden: 14,358 hours.
Needs and Uses: Program uses for
Form 41 data are as follows:
Mail Rates
The Department of Transportation
sets and updates mainline Alaska mail
rates based on carrier aircraft operating
expense, traffic and operational data.
Form 41 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’ ability to
continue providing service.
Submission of U.S. Carrier Data to
ICAO
As a party to the Convention on
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