§44723 Annual report

Summary

By January 1 each year, the Secretary of Transportation must send Congress a full report on the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety enforcement work for the fiscal year that ended the previous September 30. The report must show how staffing compared to goals for operations, maintenance, and avionics inspectors and how staff were split between air carriers and general aviation; the experience and how many inspectors are fully qualified; who got required training and who finished all required courses; how yearly inspection programs were set and how they changed from the year before; a comparison of planned versus actual inspections by field office and an explanation for any office that completed less than 80 percent of its plan; whether management controls are enough to make field managers follow FAA policies; progress on updating guidance and rules and a list of proposed rule changes still pending; the specific measures used to judge program progress, quality, and new safety problems; civil penalty data for the two prior fiscal years (totals, amounts assessed and collected, ranges, and average and range of processing times); other enforcement actions for those two years (number of violations and how many led to suspensions, revocations, warnings, or no action); and the safety record for air carriers and general aviation, including counts of inspections with and without deficiencies, how often each carrier had problems, and an overall data-based look at compliance.