[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13828-13829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05179]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2016-1059]
Towing Safety Advisory Committee; April 2017 Meeting
AGENCY: Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Towing Safety Advisory Committee will meet in Memphis,
Tennessee, to review and discuss recommendations from its Subcommittees
and to receive briefs on items listed in the agenda under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION. All meetings will be open to the public.
DATES: The Subcommittees will meet on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, from 8
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The full Towing Safety Advisory Committee will meet
on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. These meetings
may close early if the Subcommittees or Committee have completed its
business.
ADDRESSES: All meetings will be held at the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton,
5069 Sanderlin Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38117. The telephone number
for the Doubletree Hotel is 800-222-8733. The hotel Web site is: http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/tennessee/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-memphis-MEMEHDT/index.html
For information on facilities or services for individuals with
disabilities, or to request special assistance at the meetings, contact
the individual listed in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT below as soon
as possible.
Instructions: You are free to submit comments at any time,
including orally
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at the meetings, but if you want committee members to review your
comment before the meetings, please submit your comments no later than
April 2, 2017. We are particularly interested in comments on the issues
in the ``Agenda'' section below. You must include ``Department of
Homeland Security'' and the docket number [USCG-2016-1059] in your
submission. Written comments should be submitted using the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. If you encounter
technical difficulties, contact Mr. William J. Abernathy. Comments
received will be posted without alteration at http://www.regulations.gov including any personal information provided. 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).
Docket Search: For access to the docket to read documents or
comments related to this notice, go to http://www.regulations.gov, and
use ``USCG-2016-1059'' in the ``Search'' box, press Enter, and then
click on the item you wish to view.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Commandant (CG-OES-2) ATTN: Mr.
William J. Abernathy, Towing Safety Advisory Committee Alternate
Designated Federal Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Stop 7509, 2703 Martin
Luther King Jr. Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20593-7509; telephone 202-
372-1363, fax 202-372-8387, or email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is in compliance with
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Title 5, U.S.C. Appendix). This
committee is established in accordance with, and operates under the
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. As stated in 33
U.S.C. 1231a, the Towing Safety Advisory Committee provides advice and
recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security on matters
relating to shallow-draft inland and coastal waterway navigation and
towing safety.
Further information about the Towing Safety Advisory Committee is
available here: http://www.facadatabase.gov. Click on the search tab
and type ``Towing Safety'' into the search form.
Agenda of Meetings
A copy of each draft report and presentation as well as the meeting
agenda will be available at: http://homeport.uscg.mil/tsac.
On April 11 and 12, 2017, the Towing Safety Advisory Committee and
its subcommittees will meet to review, discuss, deliberate, and
formulate recommendations, as appropriate, on the following:
Current Subcommittees and Tasks
a. Articulated Tug and Barge Operations and Manning (Task 15-02)
b. Electronic Charting Systems (Task 15-03)
c. Subchapter M Implementation (Task 16-01)
d. Inland Firefighting (Task 16-02)
e. Towing Liquefied Natural Gas Barges (Task 16-03)
Public comments or questions will be taken throughout the meeting
as the committee discusses the issues and prior to deliberations and
voting. There will also be a public comment period at the end of the
meeting. Speakers are requested to limit their comments to 5 minutes.
Please note that the public comment period may end before the period
allotted, following the last call for comments. Contact the individual
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above to register
as a speaker.
Notices of Future 2017 Towing Safety Advisory Committee Meetings
To receive automatic email notices of future Towing Safety Advisory
Committee meetings in 2017, go to the online docket, USCG-2016-1059
(http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=USCG-2016-1059), and
select the Sign-up-for-Email-Alerts option. We plan to use the same
docket number for all Towing Safety Advisory Committee meeting notices
in 2017, so when the next meeting notice is published you will receive
an email alert from http://www.regulations.gov when the notice appears
in this docket, in addition to notices of other items being added to
the docket.
Dated: March 10, 2017.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards.
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