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  • Antidrug and Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programs for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation Activities

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 04/10/2000.

    This action corrects FAA office addresses listed in the Code of Federal Regulations regarding Drug Testing Programs and Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programs. The action is necessary so that required notifications and reports are received by the FAA in a timely and efficient manner. The intended effect of this action is to ensure that the regulated...

  • Repair Assessment for Pressurized Fuselages

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 04/25/2000.

    This action requires operators of certain transport category airplanes to incorporate repair assessment guidelines for the fuselage pressure boundary into their FAA-approved maintenance or inspection program. This action is the result of concern for the continued operational safety of airplanes that are approaching or have exceeded their design...

  • Passenger Facility Charges

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 05/30/2000.

    This action amends regulations pertaining to passenger facility charges (PFC's) to incorporate administrative and statutory changes in the procedures to establish PFC's based on recent enactments by Congress and records of decision by the FAA. This action is issued as a final rule without prior notice and comment because the changes are...

  • Prohibition of Smoking on Scheduled Passenger Flights

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 06/09/2000.

    The FAA is amending its regulations to bring them into conformance with recent legislation prohibiting smoking aboard all aircraft in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation and scheduled passenger foreign air transportation. This rule is being issued with a related DOT rule on smoking, which is published elsewhere in...

  • Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Requirements for Airbus Airplanes

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 08/24/2000.

    This action amends the flight data recorder regulations by adding language to allow certain Airbus airplanes to record certain data parameters using resolution requirements that differ slightly from the current regulation. This amendment is necessary because the Airbus airplanes are unable to record certain flight parameters under the existing...

  • Service Difficulty Reports

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 09/15/2000.

    The FAA amends reporting requirements for air carriers and certificated domestic and foreign repair station operators concerning failures, malfunctions, and defects of aircraft, aircraft engines, systems, and components. This action was prompted by an internal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) review of the effectiveness of the reporting...

  • Advanced Qualification Program

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 10/10/2000.

    The FAA is establishing a new termination date for Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) No. 58 (55 FR 40275; October 2, 1990), which provides for the approval of an alternate method (known as ``Advanced Qualification Program'' or ``AQP'') for qualifying, training and certifying, and otherwise ensuring the competency of crewmembers,...

  • Emergency Medical Equipment

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 04/12/2001.

    This action responds to the Aviation Medical Assistance Act of 1998 by requiring that air carrier operators carry automated external defibrillators on large, passenger-carrying aircraft and augment currently required emergency medical kits. It affects those air carrier operations for which at least one flight attendant is required and includes...

  • Emergency Exits

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 04/25/2001.

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA or ``we'') is amending our regulations by removing an obsolete cross reference. This change is necessary to correct an error and will not impose any additional burdens or restrictions on persons or organizations affected by these regulations.

  • Transport Airplane Fuel Tank System Design Review, Flammability Reduction, and Maintenance and Inspection Requirements

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 05/07/2001.

    This rule requires design approval holders of certain turbine- powered transport category airplanes, and of any subsequent modifications to these airplanes, to substantiate that the design of the fuel tank system precludes the existence of ignition sources within the airplane fuel tanks. It also requires developing and implementing maintenance...

  • Parachute Operations

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 05/09/2001.

    This rule amends regulations that govern parachute operations. Amendments to these regulations reflect changes in the requirements applicable to radio communications, airspace classification, parachute packing, tandem parachute operations, and foreign parachutists. Through this rule, the FAA intends to enhance the safety of parachute operation...

  • Airport Security

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 07/17/2001.

    This final rule amends the existing airport security rules. It revises certain applicability provisions, definitions, and terms; reorganizes these rules into subparts containing related requirements; and incorporates some requirements already implemented in security programs. This revision also incorporates certain new measures to provide for...

  • Aircraft Operator Security

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 07/17/2001.

    This final rule amends the existing airplane operator security rule. It revises the applicability section, definitions, and terms; reorganizes this part into subparts containing related requirements; and incorporates some requirements already implemented in the air carrier standard security program. Specifically, this final rule increases the...

  • Repair Stations

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 08/06/2001.

    This rule updates and revises the regulations for repair stations. This action is necessary because many of the current repair station regulations do not reflect changes in repair station business practices and aircraft maintenance practices. The rule reorganizes the requirements applicable to repair stations to reduce duplication of regulatory...

  • Antidrug and Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programs for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation Activities

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 08/09/2001.

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is revising its drug and alcohol regulations. This final rule incorporates changes in the Department of Transportation (DOT) final rule, ``Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs,'' published December 19, 2000. In addition, this rule changes the drug testing program and...

  • Flightcrew Compartment Access and Door Designs

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 10/09/2001.

    This action allows airline operators to quickly modify the flightcrew compartment door to delay or deter unauthorized entry to the flightcrew compartment. This action temporarily authorizes variances from existing design standards for the doors and allows for approval for return to service of modified airplanes without prior approved data if the...

  • Flightcrew Compartment Access and Door Designs

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 10/17/2001.

    This action supersedes SFAR 92 which was published October 9, 2001, by allowing certain air carriers to quickly modify the flightcrew compartment door to delay or deter unauthorized entry to the flightcrew compartment. This action temporarily authorizes variances from existing design standards for the doors and allows for approval for return to...

  • Antidrug and Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programs for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation Activities

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 11/19/2001.

    The FAA is making minor technical amendments to its drug and alcohol regulations final rule, which was effective August 1, 2001. Since publication of the final rule, we have become aware of minor corrections that need to be made to avoid confusion. The effect of this technical amendment will be to correct the rule language to reflect the intent...

  • Flightcrew Compartment Access and Door Designs

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 11/21/2001.

    This action supersedes SFAR 92-1, which was published October 17, 2001, allowing air carriers to quickly modify the flightcrew compartment door to delay or deter unauthorized entry to the flightcrew compartment. This action temporarily authorizes variances from existing design standards for the doors and allows for approval for return to service...

  • Criminal History Records Checks

    by the Federal Aviation Administration on 12/06/2001.

    This rule requires each airport operator and aircraft operator that has adopted a security program under part 107 or part 108, respectively, to conduct fingerprint-based criminal history record checks (CHRC's) for individuals if they have not already undergone CHRC's. The rule applies to those who either have, or apply for: Unescorted access...