# 2025-11161: FAA Seeks Comments on Voluntary Air-Cargo Dangerous-Goods Safety Plans

2025-11161, Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: FAA Advisory Circular 120-119, Voluntary Safety Management System for Other Regulated Entities Transporting Dangerous Goods by Air, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Federal Aviation Administration published 2025-06-17, effective Written comments should be submitted by August 18, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11161
- As of: 2026-11-03
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11161
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: FAA Advisory Circular 120-119, Voluntary Safety Management System for Other Regulated Entities Transporting Dangerous Goods by Air
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 25739
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: Written comments should be submitted by August 18, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

FAA Seeks Comments on Voluntary Air-Cargo Dangerous-Goods Safety Plans

## Summary

The FAA is asking for your thoughts on renewing a voluntary safety program for companies that transport dangerous goods by air. This program helps these companies create and share safety plans with the FAA to keep everyone safer. Comments are due by August 18, 2025, and there’s no new cost—just a chance to improve safety and paperwork.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The collection involves entities that voluntarily follow the guidance in FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 120-119, Voluntary Safety Management System (SMS) for Other Regulated Entities Transporting Dangerous Goods by Air, on how to use the FAA regulatory SMS principles as a basis to develop and implement a voluntary SMS program and how to submit such program to the FAA for acceptance.

## Effects PRIA read

- Voluntary SMS Program for Dangerous Goods Shippers: benefit, low. If your company transports dangerous goods by air, you may voluntarily follow FAA Advisory Circular 120-119 to develop and submit a Safety Management System (SMS) implementation plan to the FAA. Participants collect and analyze safety data and must maintain training and communications records as pa…
- Significant Time Burden to Implement SMS: cost, high. The FAA estimates the paperwork/time burden to implement the voluntary SMS is 4,160 hours for a new respondent (one-time) and 170 hours for each continual respondent (occasionally for updates). The FAA estimates one new respondent and four continual respondents annually, giving estimated total annu…

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## Sources
- [2025-11161 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11161/agency-information-collection-activities-requests-for-comments-clearance-of-renewed-approval-of)
- [2025-11161 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11161.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11161 (as of 2026-11-03).