49 U.S.C. § 44723 : US Code - Section 44723: Annual report

Search 49 U.S.C. § 44723 : US Code - Section 44723: Annual report

Not later than January 1 of each year, the Secretary of
Transportation shall submit to Congress a comprehensive report on
the safety enforcement activities of the Federal Aviation
Administration during the fiscal year ending the prior September
30th. The report shall include -
(1) a comparison of end-of-year staffing levels by operations,
maintenance, and avionics inspector categories to staffing goals
and a statement on how staffing standards were applied to make
allocations between air carrier and general aviation operations,
maintenance, and avionics inspectors;
(2) schedules showing the range of inspector experience by
various inspector work force categories, and the number of
inspectors in each of the categories who are considered fully
qualified;
(3) schedules showing the number and percentage of inspectors
who have received mandatory training by individual course, and
the number of inspectors by work force categories, who have
received all mandatory training;
(4) a description of the criteria used to set annual work
programs, an explanation of how these criteria differ from
criteria used in the prior fiscal year and how the annual work
programs ensure compliance with appropriate regulations and safe
operating practices;
(5) a comparison of actual inspections performed during the
fiscal year to the annual work programs by field location and,
for any field location completing less than 80 percent of its
planned number of inspections, an explanation of why annual work
program plans were not met;
(6) a statement of the adequacy of Administration internal
management controls available to ensure that field managers
comply with Administration policies and procedures, including
those on inspector priorities, district office coordination,
minimum inspection standards, and inspection followup;
(7) the status of efforts made by the Administration to update
inspector guidance documents and regulations to include
technological, management, and structural changes taking place in
the aviation industry, including a listing of the backlog of all
proposed regulatory amendments;
(8) a list of the specific operational measures of
effectiveness used to evaluate -
(A) the progress in meeting program objectives;
(B) the quality of program delivery; and
(C) the nature of emerging safety problems;
(9) a schedule showing the number of civil penalty cases closed
during the 2 prior fiscal years, including the total initial and
final penalties imposed, the total number of dollars collected,
the range of dollar amounts collected, the average case
processing time, and the range of case processing time;
(10) a schedule showing the number of enforcement actions taken
(except civil penalties) during the 2 prior fiscal years,
including the total number of violations cited, and the number of
cited violation cases closed by certificate suspensions,
certificate revocations, warnings, and no action taken; and
(11) schedules showing the safety record of the aviation
industry during the fiscal year for air carriers and general
aviation, including -
(A) the number of inspections performed when deficiencies
were identified compared with inspections when no deficiencies
were found;
(B) the frequency of safety deficiencies for each air
carrier; and
(C) an analysis based on data of the general status of air
carrier and general aviation compliance with aviation
regulations.