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COVID–19 Vaccine Air Transport
Team’s work with air carriers, and other
aviation stakeholders to aid in the safe,
expeditious, and efficient transport of
the COVID–19 vaccines. This new
collection would enable the FAA to
collect voluntary information from air
carriers authorized to operate under
parts 121 and 135 of title 14, Code of
Federal Regulations (14 CFR) that
participate or have participated in
transport of the COVID–19 vaccines.
The continuing mission of the FAA is
to provide the safest, most efficient
aerospace system in the world. The
FAA’s authority on aviation safety is
found in title 49, United States Code
(U.S.C.). The authority described in 49
U.S.C. 106(f) vests final authority in the
Administrator to carry out all functions,
powers, and duties of the
Administration relating to the
promulgation of regulations, rules,
orders, circulars, bulletins, and other
official publications of the
Administration. Section 44701(a)(5) of
title 49, U.S.C. also requires the
Administrator to promulgate regulations
and minimum standards for other
practices, methods, and procedures the
Administrator finds necessary for safety
in air commerce and national security.
Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 44701(b)(1), the
Administrator may prescribe minimum
safety standards for an air carrier to
whom an air carrier operating certificate
is issued under 49 U.S.C. 44705. When
prescribing a regulation or minimum
standard under section 44701(a) or (b),
the Administrator must consider the
duty of an air carrier to provide service
with the highest possible degree of
safety in the public interest, as
prescribed by 49 U.S.C. 44701(d).
Regulations and minimum standards
necessary for the safe and efficient air
transport of the COVID–19 vaccines are
within the scope of these authorities
and are in the public interest. The safe
and efficient distribution of COVID–19
vaccines helps save lives, reduce the
severity of COVID–19 illnesses and the
associated strains on healthcare
systems, and facilitate economic
recovery.
The FAA has worked closely with air
carriers, industry associations, and other
aviation stakeholders to address safety
matters, such as changed packaging
configurations, data loggers, and
increased dry ice limits in the context
of air carrier operations to support
transport of the COVID–19 vaccines. For
example, on December 10, 2020, the
FAA issued ‘‘Safety Alert for Operators

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20017,’’ 1 which identifies specific
considerations related to the air
transport of dry ice.
Since December 4, 2020, the
Department of Transportation and the
FAA have led a recurrent Vaccine
Distribution Engagement Meeting
(VDEM) to bring together government
and industry to share ideas, successes,
challenges, and ask questions related to
transporting the COVID–19 vaccines.
Aviation industry associations, air
carriers, government partners, and other
stakeholders have engaged to provide
information and voice concerns—with
no consensus recommendations sought
for any governmental action—related to
the logistics of transport by air of the
COVID–19 vaccines. The entities
represented at the recurrent VDEMs
have collaborated to successfully
transport the COVID–19 vaccines, while
upholding the highest standards of
aviation safety.
During VDEMs, both FAA and
industry stakeholders identified
common interest in querying
participants to capture lessons learned.
Accordingly, the FAA seeks voluntary
information from air carriers authorized
to operate under 14 CFR parts 121 and
135 that participate or have participated
in transport of the COVID–19 vaccines.
Information collected from these
stakeholders may further enhance safety
efforts and facilitate development of
pertinent regulations, minimum
standards, guidance, and other
information.

6. What additional regulations,
minimum standards, guidance, or other
information would you like to see
concerning the air transport of dry ice?
Respondents: The FAA estimates that
a total of 39 entities will voluntarily
submit responses for this information
collection request.
Frequency: The FAA expects the
submissions warrant a one-time burden
to take place over the next three to six
months for entities that choose to
comply. The FAA may conduct this
survey additional times, depending
upon the duration of the COVID–19
pandemic, any significant developments
in COVID–19 vaccine logistics and
transport, and interest from VDEM
participants.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 5 hours reporting and 0 hours
recordkeeping.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 195
hours reporting and 0 hours
recordkeeping.

Questions
1. Did the volume of vaccines
transported per pound of dry ice
increase over the duration of the
COVID–19 pandemic? Please provide
data that captures the change.
2. Were there observed lower
sublimation rates due to improved
packaging technology or other factors,
and to what factors do you attribute
these lower sublimation rates?
3. What risk mitigations have you
utilized to enable safe and efficient air
operations with larger than normal
quantities of dry ice?
4. Was there anything that limited
your ability to transport COVID–19
vaccines efficiently while maintaining
aviation safety? If so, please describe.
5. What are key takeaways or
accomplishments from the COVID–19
vaccine transportation effort over the
past year that show the value of working
closely with shippers, airframe
manufacturers, and the FAA for datadriven safe and efficient operations?

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request

1 Available at: https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/
aviation_industry/airline_operators/airline_safety/
safo/all_safos/media/2020/SAFO20017.pdf.

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Issued in Washington, DC, on January 27,
2022.
Daniel Benjamin Supko,
Executive Director, FAA, Office of Hazardous
Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 2022–02017 Filed 2–1–22; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2022–0002–N–2]

Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, FRA seeks
approval of the Information Collection
Request (ICR) abstracted below. Before
submitting this ICR to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, FRA is soliciting public
comment on specific aspects of the
activities identified in the ICR.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before April 4,
2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2022–
0002. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
SUMMARY:

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including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number in any
correspondence submitted. FRA will
summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Hodan Wells, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone: (202)
493–0440.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days’ notice to the public to
allow comment on information
collection activities before seeking OMB
approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C.
3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through
1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites
interested parties to comment on the
following ICR regarding: (1) Whether the
information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
CFR section 1

223.3(c)—Application—Locomotives, passenger
cars, and cabooses less than 50 years old
and not used exclusively for excursion, educational, recreational, or private transportation
purposes.
223.11(c)—Requirements for existing locomotives built or rebuilt prior to July 1, 1980,
equipped with certified glazing in all locomotive cab windows.
—(d)(1) Locomotive placed in designated
service due to a damaged or broken cab
window—Stenciled ‘‘Designated Service—DO NOT OCCUPY’’.
—(d)(2) Locomotives removed from service
until broken or damaged windows are replaced with certified glazing.
223.13(c)—Requirements for existing cabooses
built or rebuilt prior to July 1, 1980, equipped
with certified glazing in all windows.
—(d) Cabooses removed from service until
broken or damaged windows are replaced with certified glazing.

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223.15(c)—Requirements for existing passenger cars built or rebuilt prior to July 1,
1980, equipped with certified glazing in all
windows plus four emergency windows.
—(d) Passenger cars removed from service
until broken/damaged windows are replaced with certified glazing.
Appendix A—(b)(16)—Certification of glazing
materials—Manufacturers to certify in writing
that glazing material meets the requirements
of this section.
—(c) Identification and marking of each unit
of glazing material.

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its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (2)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (3) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (4) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
FRA believes that soliciting public
comment may reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information that
Federal regulations mandate. In
summary, FRA reasons that comments
received will advance three objectives:
(1) Reduce reporting burdens; (2)
organize information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (3) accurately assess the resources

expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
The summaries below describe the
ICRs that FRA will submit for OMB
clearance as the PRA requires:
Title: Certification of Glazing
Materials.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0525.
Abstract: The collection of
information is set forth under 49 CFR
part 223, which requires the
certification and permanent marking of
glazing materials by the manufacturer.
The manufacturer is also responsible for
making available test verification data to
railroads and to FRA upon request.
Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses (railroads
and manufacturers of glazing materials).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 704 railroads
and 5 manufacturers.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Reporting Burden:

Respondent
universe

Total annual responses

Average time
per response

Total annual burden
hours

Total cost
equivalent

...............................

(A)

(B)

(C) = A * B

(D) = C *
wage rate 2

704 railroads ........

400 marked tools (small
hammers with instructions).

30 minutes ...................

200.00 hours ................

$11,978.00

704 railroads ........

10 renewal waivers ......

4 hours .........................

40.00 hours ..................

4,609.60

704 railroads ........

15 stencilings ...............

3 minutes .....................

.75 hour .......................

44.92

Glazing certification for locomotive replacement windows is done at the time of manufacturing. Consequently, there
is no additional burden associated with this requirement.

704 railroads ........

2 renewal waivers ........

4 hours .........................

8.00 hours ....................

921.92

Glazing certification for caboose replacement windows is done at the time of manufacturing. Consequently, there is
no additional burden associated with this requirement.

704 railroads ........

2 renewal waivers ........

4 hours .........................

8 hours .........................

922

Glazing certification for passenger car replacement windows is done at the time of manufacturing. Consequently,
there is no additional burden associated with this requirement.

5 manufacturers ...

10 certifications ............

30 minutes ...................

5.00 hours ....................

387.20

5 manufacturers ...

25,000 marked pieces ..

480 pieces per hour ....

52.08 hours ..................

3,119.07

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Respondent
universe

Total annual responses

Average time
per response

Total annual burden
hours

Total cost
equivalent

...............................

(A)

(B)

(C) = A * B

(D) = C *
wage rate 2

25,439 responses .........

N/A ...............................

314 hours .....................

CFR section 1

Total ......................................................

704 railroads + 5
manufacturers.

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
25,439.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 314
hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $21,983.
Title: Disqualification Proceedings.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0529.
Abstract: FRA regulations at 49 CFR
part 209, subpart D, explain FRA’s
responsibilities, and the rights and
responsibilities of railroads and railroad
employees, regarding disqualification
procedures. For example, § 209.331,
enforcement of a disqualification order,
CFR section 3

209.307(a)—Reply—Within 30 days after receipt of the notice of proposed disqualification issued under § 209.305, the respondent
shall reply in writing to the charges.
—(b) Reply—Request for an extension ...

Total annual
responses

Average time
per response

Total annual burden
hours

Total cost
equivalent

......................................

(A)

(B)

(C) = A * B

(D) = C *
wage rate

86,000 employees .......

12 replies ....................

3 hours .......................

36.00 hours ................

$2,224.44

86,000 employees .......

2 requests ...................

30 minutes .................

1.00 hour ....................

61.79

The estimated paperwork burden associated with this regulatory requirement is covered under § 209.307.

86,000 employees .......

4 requests ...................

30 minutes .................

2.00 hours ..................

123.58

754 railroads ................

1 notification letter + 1
information letter.

30 minutes + 30 minutes.

1 hour .........................

77.44

—(b) Enforcement of disqualification
order—Personnel background check.

This is a common practice for the railroad industry to do routine personnel checks on individuals whom they are planning on hiring. Thus, there is no burden associated with this requirement.

—(c) Enforcement of disqualification
order—Individual subject to disqualification order to inform employer and
provide copy to employer within 5 days
after receipt of such order.

86,000 employees .......

1 disqualification letter
+ 1 copy of disqualification letter.

30 minutes + 30 minutes.

1 hour .........................

61.79

86,000 employees +
754 railroads.

22 responses ..............

N/A .............................

41.00 hours ................

2,549

Total ...................................................

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the order to the employer, inform a
prospective employer railroad of the
disqualification order, and provide a
copy of the order.
Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 86,000 railroad
employees and 754 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Reporting Burden:

Respondent universe

209.309(a)–(b)—Informal response by railroad
employee to a notice of proposed disqualification.
—(h) Informal response—Request for an
extension.
209.331(a)—Enforcement of disqualification
order—A railroad that employs or formerly
employed an individual serving under a disqualification order must inform other prospective employers.

requires: (a) A railroad employing or
formerly employing a disqualified
individual to disclose the terms and
conditions of the order to the
individual’s new or prospective
employer railroad; (b) a railroad
considering hiring an individual in a
safety-sensitive position to inquire from
the individual’s prior employer railroad
whether the individual is serving under
a disqualification order; and (c) a
disqualified individual to inform the
individual’s employer of the
disqualification order, provide a copy of

21,983

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
22.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 41
hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $2,549.
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA

informs all interested parties that a
respondent is not required to respond
to, conduct, or sponsor a collection of
information that does not display a
currently valid OMB control number.

1 The current inventory exhibits a total burden of
269 hours while the total burden of this notice is
314 hours. As part of its review of this ICR renewal,
FRA determined some of the previous estimates
were outdated.
2 Throughout this notice, the dollar equivalent
cost is derived from the Surface Transportation

Board’s 2020 Full Year Wage A&B data series using
the appropriate employee group hourly wage rate
that includes a 75-percent overhead charge.
3 The current inventory exhibits a total burden of
5 hours while the total burden of this notice is 41
hours. As part of its review of this ICR renewal,
FRA determined some of the previous estimates

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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Brett A. Jortland,
Deputy Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2022–02108 Filed 2–1–22; 8:45 am]
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were outdated. Additionally, the requirements
under §§ 209.311 through 209.327 are exempted
from the PRA under 5 CFR 1320.4(a)(2). Since these
provisions pertain to an administrative action or
investigation, there is no PRA burden associated
with these requirements.

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