Rotorcraft Occupant Protection Working Group Tasking Notice
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 214 / Thursday, November 5, 2015 / Notices 68599 time segments does not create an undue temporarily suspend such rule change if office of the Exchange. All comments burden on competition, rather, it it appears to the Commission that such received will be posted without change; provides the Market Maker with clarity action is: (i) Necessary or appropriate in the Commission does not edit personal as to the manner in which the System the public interest; (ii) for the protection identifying information from counts quotes and orders and thereby of investors; or (iii) otherwise in submissions. You should submit only provides NOM Market Makers with an furtherance of the purposes of the Act. information that you wish to make increased ability to monitor If the Commission takes such action, the available publicly. All submissions transactions. Commission shall institute proceedings should refer to File Number SR– to determine whether the proposed rule NASDAQ–2015–122 and should be Rounding should be approved or disapproved. The submitted on or before November 27, The Exchange’s amendment to add Exchange has provided the Commission 2015. that if the Issue Percentage, rounded to written notice of its intent to file the For the Commission, by the Division of the nearest integer, equals or exceeds proposed rule change, along with a brief Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated the Specified Percentage, the System description and text of the proposed authority.30 automatically removes a Market Maker’s rule change, at least five business days Jill M. Peterson, quotes and orders in all series of an prior to the date of filing of the Assistant Secretary. underlying security does not create an proposed rule change. [FR Doc. 2015–28143 Filed 11–4–15; 8:45 am] undue burden on competition because IV. Solicitation of Comments BILLING CODE 8011–01–P this amendment also provides the Market Maker with clarity as to the Interested persons are invited to manner in which the System will submit written data, views, and remove quotes and orders and thereby arguments concerning the foregoing, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION including whether the proposed rule provides NOM Market Makers with an Federal Aviation Administration increased ability to monitor transactions change is consistent with the Act. and set risk limits. Comments may be submitted by any of Aviation Rulemaking Advisory the following methods: Reset Committee—New Task Electronic Comments The amendment to the rule text AGENCY: Federal Aviation • concerning resetting does not create an Use the Commission’s Internet Administration (FAA), DOT. undue burden on competition. The comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ ACTION: Notice of a new task assignment rules/sro.shtml); or Exchange proposes to amend the • for the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory manner in which a Market Maker may Send an email to rule-comments@ Committee. re-enter the System after a removal of sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– quotes and orders. This amendment NASDAQ–2015–122 on the subject line. SUMMARY: The FAA assigned the provides information to NOM Market Paper Comments Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) a new task to Makers as to the procedure to re-enter • Send paper comments in triplicate provide recommendations regarding the System after a trigger. This to Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Securities information is intended to provide NOM occupant protection rulemaking in and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street normal and transport category rotorcraft Market Makers with access to the NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090. market. for older certification basis type designs All submissions should refer to File that are still in production. The FAA C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Number SR–NASDAQ–2015–122. This amended regulations to incorporate Statement on Comments on the file number should be included on the occupant protection rules, including Proposed Rule Change Received From subject line if email is used. To help the those for emergency landing conditions Members, Participants, or Others Commission process and review your and fuel system crash resistance, for No written comments were either comments more efficiently, please use new type designs in the 1980s and solicited or received. only one method. The Commission will 1990s. These rule changes do not apply post all comments on the Commission’s to newly manufactured rotorcraft with III. Date of Effectiveness of the Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ older type designs or to derivative type Proposed Rule Change and Timing for rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the designs that keep the certification basis Commission Action submission, all subsequent of the original type design. This Because the foregoing proposed rule amendments, all written statements approach has resulted in a very low change does not: (i) Significantly affect with respect to the proposed rule incorporation rate of occupant the protection of investors or the public change that are filed with the protection features into the rotorcraft interest; (ii) impose any significant Commission, and all written fleet, and fatal accidents remain burden on competition; and (iii) become communications relating to the unacceptably high. At the end of 2014, operative for 30 days from the date on proposed rule change between the only 16% of U.S. fleet had complied which it was filed, or such shorter time Commission and any person, other than with the crash resistant fuel system as the Commission may designate, it has those that may be withheld from the requirements effective 20 years earlier, become effective pursuant to Section public in accordance with the and only 10% had complied with the 19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 28 and provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be emergency landing requirements subparagraph (f)(6) of Rule 19b–4 available for Web site viewing and effective 25 years earlier. A recent fatal thereunder.29 printing in the Commission’s Public accident study has shown these At any time within 60 days of the Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., measures would have been effective in filing of the proposed rule change, the Washington, DC 20549, on official saving lives. Commission summarily may business days between the hours of This notice informs the public of the 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the new ARAC activity and solicits 28 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(a)(iii). filing also will be available for 29 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). inspection and copying at the principal 30 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:06 Nov 04, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05NON1.SGM 05NON1 jstallworth on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 68600 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 214 / Thursday, November 5, 2015 / Notices membership for the new Rotorcraft helicopters, there will be no meaningful trauma accounted for cause of death in Occupant Protection Working Group. reduction in the number of fatalities in 92% of the 2008–2013 fatal accident FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: helicopter accidents. data. In addition, blunt force trauma Martin R. Crane, Federal Aviation Following a series of accidents also was the cause of death in 80% of Administration, 10101 Hillwood involving post-crash fires, the the part 27 fatal rotorcraft accidents Parkway, Fort Worth, Texas 76177, Australian Civil Aviation Safety where a post-crash fire occurred. The [email protected], phone number Authority asked the FAA for assistance Rotorcraft Directorate and CAMI built 817–222–5110, facsimile number 817– in determining the airworthiness of their study using the framework and 222–5961. certain helicopters. This request methodology previously established by resulted in a collaborative post-crash Taneja and Wiegmann’s 2003 study. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: fire/blunt force trauma study performed Further, they used the percentages of ARAC Acceptance of Task by the FAA’s Rotorcraft Directorate and bony injuries and organ/visceral injuries Civil Aerospace Medical Institute As a result of the September 17, 2015, documented in Taneja and Wiegmann’s (CAMI). The data consisted of 97 fatal ARAC meeting, the FAA assigned and study as a baseline for comparison. The accidents involving U.S. registered, ARAC accepted this task establishing intent was to see if a statistically type-certificated helicopters in a five- significant change occurred in blunt the Rotorcraft Occupant Protection year timeframe from 2008 to 2013. Part force trauma injury patterns in fatal Working Group. The Rotorcraft 27 rotorcraft comprised the largest mass rotorcraft accidents in the 10 years since Occupant Protection Working Group of data (87 of 97 fatal accidents, 90% of the previous study. They concluded will serve as staff to the ARAC and the total) in the study. The post-crash there was no statistically significant provide advice and recommendations fire portion of the study found that post- difference across most categories of on the assigned task. The ARAC will crash fires occurred in 30 of 76 (39%) bony injuries and across all categories of review and accept the recommendation of fatal accidents involving part 27 organ/visceral injuries. The Rotorcraft report and will submit it to the FAA. helicopters without fuel systems that Directorate further discovered that only Background meet the full crash resistance 10% of U.S. registered, type-certificated requirements of 14 CFR 27.952. The The FAA established the ARAC to rotorcraft complied with increased post-crash fire contributed to a fatality provide information, advice, and occupant protection measures related to in 20% of these fatal accidents. While blunt force trauma mandated in the recommendations on aviation-related the data set for part 29 rotorcraft was issues that could result in rulemaking to §§ 27.562 and 29.562 rules, despite the much smaller (10 of 97 fatal accidents, rules being in effect for 25 years at the the FAA Administrator, through the 10% of the total), the results were Associate Administrator of Aviation time of the study.