[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 6679-6680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02415]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Parts 140, 143, and 146
46 CFR Parts 61 and 62
[USCG-2014-0063]
RIN 1625-AC16
Requirements for MODUs and Other Vessels Conducting Outer
Continental Shelf Activities With Dynamic Positioning Systems--Comment
Period Extension
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending for 90 days the comment period
for the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) entitled ``Requirements
for MODUs and Other Vessels Conducting Outer Continental Shelf
Activities With Dynamic Positioning Systems'' published on November 28,
2014. This extension is necessary to allow sufficient time for the
Coast Guard to hold a public meeting and receive any subsequent public
comments on the NPRM.
DATES: Comments and related material must either be submitted to our
online docket via http://www.regulations.gov on or before May 27, 2015
or reach the Docket Management Facility by that date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2014-0481 using any one of the following methods:
(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
(2) Fax: 202-493-2251.
(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility (M-30), U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail address above, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods.
See the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below for instructions on
submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
call or email LT Stephanie Waller, Human Element and Ship Design
Division, Commandant (CG-ENG-1), Coast Guard; telephone 202-372-1374,
email [email protected], or fax 202-372-8380. If you have
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms.
Cheryl Collins, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-
9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Public Participation and Request for Comments
We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting
comments and related materials. All comments received will be posted
without change to http://www.regulations.gov and will include any
personal information you have provided.
A. Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please include the docket number for this
rulemaking (USCG-2014-0063), indicate the specific section of this
document to which each comment applies, and provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation. You may submit your comments and material
online or by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but please use only one of
these means. We recommend that you include your name and a mailing
address, an email address, or a phone number in the body of your
document so that we can contact you if we have questions regarding your
submission.
To submit your comment online, go to http://www.regulations.gov and
insert ``USCG-2014-0063'' in the ``Search'' box. Click on ``Submit a
Comment'' in the ``Actions'' column. If you submit your comments by
mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than
8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you
submit comments by mail and would like to know that they reached the
Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard or
envelope.
We will consider all comments and material received during the
comment period and may change this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
based on your comments.
B. Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, as well as documents mentioned in this preamble
as being available in the docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov and
insert ``USCG-2014-0063'' in the ``Search'' box. Click ``Search.''
Click the ``Open Docket Folder'' in the ``Actions'' column. If you do
not have access to the Internet, you may view the docket online by
visiting the Docket Management Facility in Room W12-140 on the ground
floor of the Department of Transportation West Building, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. We have an agreement
with the Department of Transportation to use the Docket Management
Facility.
C. Privacy Act
Anyone can search the electronic form of comments received into any
of our dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may review a Privacy Act notice
regarding our public dockets in the January 17, 2008 issue of the
Federal Register (73 FR 3316).
II. Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in
the Federal Register on November 28, 2014 entitled, ``Requirements for
MODUs and Other Vessels Conducting Outer Continental Shelf Activities
With Dynamic Positioning Systems'' (79 FR 70943). The proposed rule
would establish minimum design, operation, training, and manning
standards for mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) and other vessels
using dynamic positioning systems to engage in Outer Continental Shelf
activities. Establishing these minimum standards is necessary to
improve the safety of people and property involved in such operations,
and the protection of the environment in which they operate. The rule
would decrease the risk of a loss of position by a dynamically-
positioned MODU or other vessel that could result in a fire, explosion,
or subsea spill, and support the Coast Guard's strategic goals of
maritime safety and protection of natural resources.
In the NPRM, we stated our intention to hold a public meeting, and
to publish a notice to announce the location and date of that meeting
(79 FR 70944). In order to allow sufficient time for the Coast Guard to
hold such a meeting and receive any subsequent public comments on the
NPRM, we are
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extending the end of the public comment period from February 26, 2015
to May 27, 2015.
III. Authority
This notice is issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).
Dated: February 3, 2015.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast Guard.
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