[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 134 (Friday, July 14, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 32510-32511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14772]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Chapter I
46 CFR Chapters I and III
49 CFR Chapter IV
[Docket No. USCG-2017-0665]
Towing Safety Advisory Committee--Input To Support Regulatory
Reform of Coast Guard Regulations--New Task
AGENCY: U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
ACTION: Announcement of new task assignment for the Towing Safety
Advisory Committee (TSAC); teleconference meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to the Towing
Safety Advisory Committee (TSAC). The U.S. Coast Guard is asking TSAC
to help the agency identify existing regulations, guidance, and
collections of information (that fall within the scope of the
Committee's charter) for possible repeal, replacement, or modification.
This tasking is in response to the issuance of Executive Orders 13771,
``Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs; 13777,
``Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda;'' and 13783, ``Promoting
Energy Independence and Economic Growth.'' The full Committee is
scheduled to meet by teleconference on August 2, 2017, to discuss this
tasking. This teleconference will be open to the public. The U.S. Coast
Guard will consider TSAC recommendations as part of the process of
identifying regulations, guidance, and collections of information to be
repealed, replaced, or modified pursuant to the three Executive Orders
discussed above.
DATES: The full Committee is scheduled to meet by teleconference on
August 2, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT. Please note that this
teleconference may adjourn early if the Committee has completed its
business.
ADDRESSES: To join the teleconference or to request special
accommodations, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section no later than 1 p.m. on July 28, 2017. The
number of teleconference lines is limited and will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Instructions: Submit comments on the task statement at any time,
including orally at the teleconference, but if you want Committee
members to review your comments before the teleconference, please
submit your comments no later than July 28, 2017.
You must include the words ``Department of Homeland Security'' and
the docket number for this action. Written comments may also be
submitted using the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. If you encounter technical difficulties with
comment submission, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Comments received will be
posted without alteration at http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. You may review Regulations.gov's Privacy
and Security Notice at https://www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice.
Docket Search: For access to the docket or to read documents or
comments related to this notice, go to http://www.regulations.gov,
insert ``USCG-2017-0665'' in the Search box, press Enter, and then
click on the item you wish to view.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Commander William Nabach,
Alternate Designated Federal Officer of the Towing Safety Advisory
Committee, telephone (202) 372-1386, or email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
New Task to the Committee
The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to TSAC to provide
recommendations on whether existing regulations, guidance, and
information collections (that fall within the scope of the Committee's
charter) should be repealed, replaced, or modified. TSAC will then
provide advice and recommendations on the assigned task and submit a
final recommendation report to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Background
On January 30, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13771,
``Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs.'' Under that
Executive Order, for every one new regulation issued, at least two
prior regulations must be identified for elimination, and the cost of
planned regulations must be prudently managed and controlled through a
budgeting process. On February 24, 2017, the President issued Executive
Order 13777, ``Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda.'' That Executive
Order directs agencies to take specific steps to identify and alleviate
unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people. On March
28, 2017, the President issued Executive Order 13783, ``Promoting
Energy Independence and Economic Growth.'' Executive Order 13783
promotes the clean and safe development of our Nation's vast energy
resources, while at the same time avoiding agency actions that
unnecessarily encumber energy production.
When implementing the regulatory offsets required by Executive
Order 13771, each agency head is directed to prioritize, to the extent
permitted by law, those regulations that the agency's Regulatory Reform
Task Force identifies as outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective in
accordance with Executive Order 13777. As part of this process to
comply with all three Executive Orders, the U.S. Coast Guard is
reaching out through multiple avenues to interested individuals to
gather their input about what regulations, guidance, and information
collections, they believe may need to be repealed, replaced, or
modified. On June 8, 2017, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a general notice
in the Federal Register requesting comments from interested individuals
regarding their recommendations, 82 FR 26632. In addition to this
general solicitation, the U.S. Coast Guard also
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wants to leverage the expertise of its Federal Advisory Committees and
is issuing similar tasks to each of its Committees. A detailed
discussion of each of the Executive orders and information on where
U.S. Coast Guard regulations, guidance, and information collections are
found is in the June 8th notice.
The Task
TSAC is tasked to:
Provide input to the U.S. Coast Guard on all existing
regulations, guidance, and information collections that fall within
the scope of the Committee's charter.
1. One or more subcommittees/working groups, as needed, will be
established to work on this tasking in accordance with the Committee
charter and bylaws. The subcommittee(s) shall terminate upon the
approval and submission of a final recommendation to the U.S. Coast
Guard from the parent Committee.
2. Review regulations, guidance, and information collections and
provide recommendations whether an existing rule, guidance, or
information collection should be repealed, replaced or modified. If
the Committee recommends modification, please provide specific
recommendations for how the regulation, guidance, or information
collection should be modified. Recommendations should include an
explanation on how and to what extent repeal, replacement or
modification will reduce costs or burdens to industry and the extent
to which risks to health or safety would likely increase.
a. Identify regulations, guidance, or information collections
that potentially impose the following types of burden on the
industry:
i. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing
administrative burdens on the industry.
ii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing
burdens in the development or use of domestically produced energy
resources. ``Burden,'' for the purposes of compliance with Executive
Order 13783, means ``to unnecessarily obstruct, delay, curtail, or
otherwise impose significant costs on the siting, permitting,
production, utilization, transmission, or delivery of energy
resources.''
b. Identify regulations, guidance, or information collections
that potentially impose the following types of costs on the
industry:
i. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing
costs that are outdated (such as due to technological advancement),
or are no longer necessary.
ii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing
costs which are no longer enforced as written or which are
ineffective.
iii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing
costs tied to reporting or recordkeeping requirements that impose
burdens that exceed benefits. Explain why the reporting or
recordkeeping requirement is overly burdensome, unnecessary, or how
it could be modified.
c. Identify regulations, guidance, and information collections
that the Committee believes have led to the elimination of jobs or
inhibits job creation within a particular industry.
3. All regulations, guidance, and information collections, or
parts thereof, recommended by the Committee should be described in
sufficient detail (by section, paragraph, sentence, clause, etc.) so
that it can readily be identified. Data (quantitative or
qualitative) should be provided to support and illustrate the
impact, cost, or burden, as applicable, for each recommendation. If
the data is not readily available, the Committee should include
information as to how such information can be obtained either by the
Committee or directly by the Coast Guard.
Public Participation
All meetings associated with this tasking, both full Committee
meetings and subcommittee/working groups, are open to the public. A
public oral comment period will be held during the August 2, 2017,
teleconference. Public comments or questions will be taken at the
discretion of the Designated Federal Officer; commenters are requested
to limit their comments to 3 minutes. Please contact the individual
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, to register as a
commenter. Subcommittee meetings held in association with this tasking
will be announced as they are scheduled through notices posted to able
at: http://homeport.uscg.mil/tsac and uploaded as supporting documents
in the electronic docket for this action, [USCG-2017-0665], at
Regulations.gov.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2017-14772 Filed 7-13-17; 8:45 am]
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