[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 151 (Friday, August 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51923-51924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18590]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2016-0640]
Eighth Coast Guard District; Interim Outer Continental Shelf
Risk-Based Resource Allocation Methodology
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the availability of an interim risk
based resource allocation methodology for inspections of certain Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) units in the Eighth Coast Guard District (D8)
area of responsibility (AOR). This interim methodology will be
implemented for a five-month trial period beginning August 1, 2016.
After the trial period, the methodology will be finalized within D8 and
submitted to Coast Guard Headquarters (CG-CVC) for consideration at the
national level.
DATES: Comments and related material must be received by the Coast
Guard on or before September 6, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2016-0640 or view documents mentioned in this notice as being available
in the docket using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. See the ``Public Participation and Request for
Comments'' portion of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for further
instructions on submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document
call or email Steve Sutton, Coast Guard; telephone 202-671-2151, email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Discussion
This interim risk based resource allocation methodology is intended
to improve implementation of the requirements contained in 33 CFR
140.101(c), 143.120(c), and 143.210(a) by employing interagency
consultation and by establishing increased focus on the industrial
mission and regulatory compliance and casualty data. It builds upon the
risk based matrix created for foreign Mobile Offshore Drilling Units
(MODU), which was published in the Federal Register (76 FR 39885) by
the Coast Guard in 2011 by applying similar principles to other OCS
units and adding consultation with the Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). This methodology will reallocate
Coast Guard inspection resources from lower risk, fixed interval
activities to higher risk activities prior to commencing an industrial
mission. The Coast Guard will periodically evaluate MODUs and OCS
facilities that either perform drilling or well-workover or are due for
a Coast Guard regulatory inspection to assign an inspection priority
and scope using risk matrices. For example, under this methodology
Coast Guard inspection resources previously used to conduct an annual
Certificate of Compliance inspection of a lower risk stacked MODU may
be reallocated to conduct a higher risk inspection of any MODU or OCS
facility with a drilling rig prior to commencement of drilling.
Outreach to the Offshore Operator's Committee
On June 8, 2016, the Coast Guard conducted outreach to the offshore
Operators' Committee at its annual general meeting in Houston, TX. The
presentation, presentation script, and transcript of questions and
answers from this outreach are available on the docket where indicated
under ADDRESSES.
Public Participation and Request for Comments
We encourage you to submit comments (or related material) on the
interim risk based resource allocation methodology for inspection of
OCS units in the D8 AOR. We will consider all submissions and may
adjust our action based on your comments, although we do not anticipate
a written response to comments. If you submit a comment, please include
the docket number for this notice, indicate the specific section of
this document to which each comment applies, and provide a reason for
each suggestion or recommendation.
We encourage you to submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be
submitted using http://www.regulations.gov, contact the person in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for alternate
instructions. Documents mentioned in this notice of availability, and
all public comments, are in our online docket at http://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following that Web site's
instructions. Additionally, if you go to the online docket and sign up
for email alerts, you will be notified when comments are posted to the
docket.
We accept anonymous comments. All comments received will be posted
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without change to http://www.regulations.gov and will include any
personal information you have provided. For more about privacy and the
docket, you may review a Privacy Act notice regarding the Federal
Docket Management System in the March 24, 2005, issue of the Federal
Register (70 FR 15086).
This notice is issued under authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).
Dated: August 1, 2016.
D.R. Callahan,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.
[FR Doc. 2016-18590 Filed 8-4-16; 8:45 am]
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