2022-21085

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: • the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document • the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to • the agency docket number / agency internal file number • the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration • 14 CFR Part 129 AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Policy statement. SUMMARY: This document describes policy changes, clarification, or restatement to the FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program to enhance engagement with civil aviation authorities (CAAs) through pre- and post-IASA assessment and to promote greater transparency. The FAA is making these changes to IASA policy to better meet the FAA's mission and safety expectations of the U.S. traveling public; better mitigate international civil aviation safety risks; strengthen international relationships with CAAs toward sustained success in maintaining or obtaining proper safety oversight; and improve effectiveness, integration, and efficiency in executing the IASA process. This docuent modifies the IASA policies previously announced by the FAA. DATES: This policy modification is effective September 28, 2022. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rolandos Lazaris, Division Manager, International Program Division (AFS-50), Flight Standards Service, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; (202) 267-3719, Rolandos.lazaris@faa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The IASA program is the means by which the FAA determines whether another country's oversight of its air carriers that operate, or seek to operate, into the U.S., or code-share with a U.S. air carrier, complies with safety standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The published IASA results of Category 1 or Category 2 is notification to the U.S. traveling public of safety issues. Public notification of the IASA program was established by a Federal Register (FR) notification. As with this recent Federal Register document, subsequent milestones in the evolution of the program were also published in the Federal Register . These notifications are as follows: • August 24, 1992—established the FAA Procedures for Examining and Monitoring Foreign Air Carriers (57 FR 38342). • September 8, 1994—established the Public Disclosure of the Results of Foreign Civil Aviation Authority Assessments, through a three-category numbered rating system. (59 FR 46332). • October 31, 1995—DOT notice Clarification Concerning Examination of Foreign Carriers' Request for Expanded Economic Authority, clarified the Department's licensing policy regarding requests for expanded economic authority from foreign air carriers whose CAA's safety oversight capability has been assessed by the FAA as conditional (Category II) or unacceptable (Category III) (60 FR 55408). • May 25, 2000—Changes to the International Aviation Safety Assessment Program removed the Category 3 rating and combined it with Category 2 (65 FR 33751). • March 8, 2013—Changes to the International Aviation Safety Assessment Program removed inactive countries (countries with no air carrier operations to the United States or code-shares with U.S. operators for four years and no significant interaction between the country's CAA and the FAA) from the IASA Category list (78 FR 14912). Through its IASA program, the FAA seeks continuous improvement t…

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