[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 26, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 34620-34622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15707]
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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-2017-0662]
Navigation Safety Advisory Council--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 Navigation Safety
Advisory Council (NAVSAC); teleconference meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to the Navigation
Safety Advisory Council (NAVSAC). The U.S. Coast Guard is asking NAVSAC
to help the agency identify existing regulations, guidance, and
collections of information (that fall within the scope of the Council'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 Council is
scheduled to meet by teleconference on August 16, 2017, to discuss this
tasking. This teleconference will be open to the public. The U.S. Coast
Guard will consider NAVSAC 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repealed, replaced, or modified pursuant to the three Executive Orders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 Council is scheduled to meet by teleconference on
August 16, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. Please note that this
teleconference may adjourn early if the Council 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 August 9, 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 Council members
to review your
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comments before the teleconference, please submit your comments no
later than August 9, 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-2017-0662'' in the Search box, press Enter, and then
click on the item you wish to view.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. George Detweiler, Alternate
Designated Federal Officer of the Navigation Safety Advisory Council,
telephone (202) 372-1566, or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
New Task to the Council
The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to NAVSAC to provide
recommendations on whether existing regulations, guidance, and
information collections (that fall within the scope of the Council's
charter) should be repealed, replaced, or modified. NAVSAC 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 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
NAVSAC 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
Council's charter.
1. One or more subcommittees/working groups, as needed, will be
established to work on this tasking in accordance with the Council
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 Council.
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
Council 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 Council 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 Council 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 Council should include information as to how such
information can be obtained either by the Council or directly by the
Coast Guard.
Public Participation
All meetings associated with this tasking, both full Council
meetings and subcommittee/working groups, are open to the public. A
public oral comment period will be held during the August
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16, 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 http://homeport.uscg.mil/navsac and uploaded as supporting
documents in the electronic docket for this action, [USCG-2017-0662],
at Regulations.gov.
Michael D. Emerson,
Director, Marine Transportation Systems.
[FR Doc. 2017-15707 Filed 7-25-17; 8:45 am]
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