2024-29688

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 • [Docket No.: FAA-2024-0176; Amdt. No. 129-55] • RIN 2120-AL93 AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This amendment will allow the FAA to review and, if acceptable to the Administrator, recognize as valid air operator certificates issued by a Regional Safety Oversight Organization to foreign air carriers when the State of the Operator is a member of that Regional Safety Oversight Organization, for purposes of evaluating foreign applicants for operating specifications. DATES: Effective January 16, 2025. ADDRESSES: For information on where to obtain copies of rulemaking documents and other information related to this final rule, see “Additional Information” in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim Shaver, International Program Division/International Operations Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC, 20591; telephone (202) 267-1704; email tim.shaver@faa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Authority for This Rulemaking The FAA's authority to issue rules on aviation safety is found in title 49 of the United States Code. Subtitle I, section 106, describes the authority of the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, describes in more detail the scope of the FAA's authority. This rulemaking is issued under the authority described in subtitle VII, part A, subpart III, section 44701(a)(5). Under that section, the FAA is charged with promoting safe flight of civil aircraft in air commerce by prescribing regulations and minimum standards for practices, methods, and procedures the Administrator finds necessary to ensure safety in air commerce. This regulation is within the scope of that authority. Amending the regulations for applications for operations specifications under part 129 submitted by foreign air carriers or foreign persons, and the related standards for denial of ( printed page 101871) such an application for operations specifications authorizations, improves the FAA's ability to manage these authorizations. These operations specifications are issued to foreign air carriers operating within the United States and to foreign air carriers or foreign persons conducting operations of U.S.-registered aircraft solely outside the United States. II. Executive Summary A. Purpose of the Regulatory Action Prior to this action, FAA regulations required that foreign applicants for operations specifications must hold a valid air operator certificate (AOC) issued by the State of the Operator. See 14 CFR 129.7(c)(5). Requiring the operator to hold an AOC issued by the State of the Operator is consistent with the standard in Annex 6, Volume 1 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, which directs that an operator shall not engage in commercial transport operations unless in possession of a valid AOC issued by the State of the Operator.[1] Some International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Contracting States have joined together …

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