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information on how it is assessing,
mitigating, and monitoring the safety
risk associated with assaults on transit
workers, which FTA may use to inform
future Federal action to protect transit
workers.
FTA is proposing to issue this General
Directive to all transit agencies required
to have an ASP under the PTASP
regulation because FTA has determined
that the hazard that transit workers must
interact with the public, and, at times,
must clarify or enforce agency policies,
exists at transit agencies of all sizes and
across all modes of public
transportation, not just those in large
urbanized areas.
The proposed General Directive
contains proposed binding obligations,
which 49 U.S.C. 5334(k) defines as ‘‘a
substantive policy statement, rule, or
guidance document issued by the
Federal Transit Administration that
grants rights, imposes obligations,
produces significant effects on private
interests, or effects a significant change
in existing policy.’’ Under 49 U.S.C.
5334(k) FTA may issue binding
obligations if it follows notice and
comment rulemaking procedures under
5 U.S.C. 553.
FTA requests public comment on this
proposed General Directive, which is
available on the FTA website at https://
www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-andguidance/safety/fta-general-directives
and in Docket No. FTA–2023–0032.
Following an analysis of the public
comments, FTA will publish a notice in
the Federal Register that includes both
a response to comments and announces
a final General Directive or a statement
rescinding or revising the proposed
General Directive.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5329; 49 CFR
1.91, 670.25.
Veronica Vanterpool,
Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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[Docket ID Number: DOT–OST–2018–0068]

Agency Request for Emergency
Clearance To Extend Information
Collection Request Related to
Traveling by Air With Service Animals
Office of the Secretary (OST),
Department of Transportation
(Department or DOT).
ACTION: Notice of request for emergency
OMB approval.
AGENCY:

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In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces DOT’s intention to
seek emergency clearance to extend the
information collection request (ICR)
under Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Control Number 2105–0576,
‘‘U.S. Department of Transportation
Service Animal Air Transportation
Form’’ and ‘‘U.S. Department of
Transportation Service Animal Relief
Attestation Form.’’ We are seeking
emergency clearance to temporarily
extend the ICR to ensure that airlines
may continue to collect service animal
forms from passengers with disabilities,
which provide assurances to the airline
that the service animal does not pose a
safety threat to passengers and crew
onboard aircraft. DOT requests that
OMB approve this extension request
within 7 days.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 27,
2023.
ADDRESSES: You may file comments
identified by the docket number DOT–
OST–2018–0068 by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments. (You may access comments
received for this notice at http://
www.regulations.gov by searching
docket DOT–OST–2018–0068.)
• 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: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. The telephone number
is 202–366–9329.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name and docket number DOT–
OST–2010–0054 at the beginning of
your comment. All comments received
will be posted without change to
https://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 DOT’s 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).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maegan Johnson or Livaughn Chapman,
Jr., Office of Aviation Consumer
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Protection, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
telephone number (202) 366–9342
(voice), (202) 366–7152 (fax);
[email protected] or
[email protected] (email).
Arrangements to receive this document
in an alternative format may be made by
contacting the above-named
individuals.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control Number: 2105–0576.
Title: Traveling by Air with Service
Animals.
Type of Request: Request for
emergency extension of existing
information collections.
Background: The U.S. Department of
Transportation (Department or DOT)
published a final rule to amend the
Department’s Air Carrier Access Act
(ACAA) regulation on the transport of
service animals by air in the Federal
Register on December 10, 2020 (85 FR
79742). 14 CFR 382.75 allows airlines to
require passengers traveling with
service animals to provide airlines with
the following two forms of
documentation developed by the
Department as a condition of travel. The
first form published in the rule, the U.S.
Department of Transportation Service
Animal Air Transportation Form
(‘‘Behavior and Health Attestation
Form’’), is designed to ensure and
inform airlines of the service animal’s
good health, disability-related task
training, and good behavior; to educate
passengers traveling with service
animals on how service animals in air
transportation are expected to behave;
and to inform passengers traveling with
service animals of the consequences of
service animal misbehavior. The second
form published in the rule, the U.S.
Department of Transportation Service
Animal Relief Attestation Form (‘‘Relief
Attestation Form’’), may only be
required by airlines when a passenger is
traveling with service animals on a
flight segment scheduled to take 8 hours
or more. The purpose of this form is to
provide assurances to airlines that the
service animal will not need to relieve
itself on the flight or that the animal can
relieve itself in a way that does not
create a health or sanitation issue, and
to educate passengers of the
consequences should an animal relieve
itself on the aircraft in an unsanitary
way.
The Behavior and Health Attestation
Form and the Relief Attestation Form
are the only forms that airlines are
permitted to require from passengers
traveling with service animals as a
condition of transport, except in rare

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circumstances when additional
documentation may be necessary to
comply with requirements on transport
of animals by a Federal agency, a U.S.
territory, or a foreign jurisdiction.
Currently, OMB authorization of the
information collections expire on
December 31, 2023.
1. Requirement To Prepare and Submit
to Airlines the DOT Air Transportation
Service Animal Behavior and Health
Attestation Form

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Respondents: Passengers with
disabilities traveling on aircraft with
service animals.
Number of Respondents: The
Department estimates that 310,145
respondents will complete the Service
Animal Health and Attestation form.
This estimate was calculated by using
the same analysis used by the
Department in its 2021 Service Animal
Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA),
where the Department estimated that
319,000 respondents would use the
Service Animal Health and Attestation
Form.
In the RIA, the Department relied on
2017 passenger data and estimates
provided from Airlines for America on
the number of service animals
transported by U.S. air carriers in 2017 1
to estimate the number of respondents
that would use the Service Animal
Health and Attestation form. DOT
estimated that in 2017, 281,000 service
animals were transported by U.S.
carriers on flights to, within, and from
the United States, and 38,000 were
transported by foreign air carriers on
flights to and from the United States.2
Assuming that only one passenger with
a disability travels with a service
animal, the Department determined in
2021 that 319,000 respondents (281,000
+ 38,000) would use the service animal
form.
For the purposes of this renewal, the
Department relied on 2022 enplanement
data to estimate the number of
respondents that would complete the
service animal forms. In 2022, U.S.
passenger enplanements increased by .5
percent and foreign carrier
1 Comment from A4A, https://
www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOT-OST-20180068-4288. A4A estimates that 281,000 service
animals were transported on U.S. airlines in 2017.
DOT estimates that 38,000 service animals were
transported by foreign airlines on flights to and
from the U.S. in 2017 based on air carrier passenger
data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
available at https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017traffic-data-us-airlines-andforeign-airlines-usflights.
2 See, Traveling by Air with Service Animals
(FR)—Regulatory Impact Analysis (November
2020); https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOTOST-2018-0068-32399.

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enplanements decreased by 27 percent.3
Thus, DOT estimates that 282,405
service animals were transported by
U.S. carriers to, from, or within the U.S.
in 2022 and, if foreign carriers had a
similar proportion of passengers
traveling with service animals, foreign
carriers transported 27,740 service
animals to or from the U.S. in 2022.
Assuming that only one passenger with
a disability travels with a service
animal, 310,145 respondents (282,405 +
27,740) would complete the service
animal behavior and health attestation
form.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: We estimate that
completing the form would require 15
minutes (.25 hours) per response,
including the time it takes to retrieve an
electronic or paper version of the form
from the carrier’s website, reviewing the
instructions, and completing the
questions. Passengers would spend a
total of 77,536 hours annually (0.25
hours × 310,145 passengers) to retrieve
and complete an accessible version of
the form. Passengers would fill out the
forms on their own time without pay.
To estimate the value of this
uncompensated activity, we use median
wage data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.4 We use a post-tax wage
estimate of $18.48 ($22.26 median for
all occupations minus a 17% percent
estimated tax rate). The estimated
annual value of this time is $1,432,865
($18.48 × 77,536 hours).5
2. Requirement To Prepare and Submit
to Airlines the DOT Service Animal
Relief Attestation Form
Respondents: Passengers with
disabilities traveling on aircraft with
service animals on flight segments
scheduled to take 8 hours or more.
Number of Respondents: The
Department estimates that 5 percent of
service animal users would be on flight
segments scheduled to take 8 hours or
more and would also have to complete
3 Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2022).
‘‘2022 Traffic Data for U.S. Airlines and Foreign
Airlines U.S. Flights.’’ https://
www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=4.
The number of passengers on foreign carriers (84.5
million) was 9.9 percent of the number on domestic
carriers (852.8 million).
4 For a discussion of estimating the value of
uncompensated activities, see ‘‘Valuing Time in
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Regulatory Impact Analyses: Conceptual
Framework and Best Practices’’ from the
Department of Health and Human Services,
available at https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/
257746/VOT.pdf.
5 Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022). ‘‘May 2022
National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates: United States.’’ https://www.bls.gov/oes/
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the Relief Attestation Form, for a total
of 15,507 respondents (310,145 × 0.05).
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: We estimate that
completing the form would require 15
minutes (.25 hours) per response,
including the time it takes to retrieve an
electronic or paper version of the form
from the carrier’s website, reviewing the
instructions, and completing the
questions. Passengers would spend a
total of 3,877 hours annually (0.25 hours
× 15,507 passengers) to retrieve an
accessible version of the form and
complete the form. Passengers would
fill out the forms on their own time
without pay, as they would with the
Animal Behavior and Health Attestation
Form. The estimated annual value of
this time is $71,647 ($18.48 × 3,877
hours).
Comments Invited
We invite comments on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the Department’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents.
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 on
the docket.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; and 59 CFR 1.48.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Livaughn Chapman Jr.,
Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of
Aviation Consumer Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request Relating to Recommendation
for Juvenile Employment With the
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Internal Revenue Service,
as part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,

SUMMARY:

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