[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 38841-38842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16074]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Parts 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, and 147
46 CFR Parts 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15
[Docket No. USCG-2013-0175]
RIN 1625-AC10
Training of Personnel and Manning on Mobile Offshore Units and
Offshore Supply Vessels Engaged in U.S. Outer Continental Shelf
Activities
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending the comment period on the advance
notice of proposed rulemaking titled, ``Training of Personnel and
Manning on Mobile Offshore Units and Offshore Supply Vessels Engaged in
U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Activities,'' published on April 14, 2014.
We are extending the comment period at the request of industry to
ensure stakeholders have adequate time to submit complete responses.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published April 14,
2014 (79 FR 20844) is extended. Comments and related material must
either be submitted to our online docket via http://www.regulations.gov
on or before September 8, 2014, or reach the Docket Management Facility
by that date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2013-0175 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 Mr. Gerald Miante, Maritime Personnel Qualifications
Division (CG-OES-1), U.S. Coast Guard, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr.
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20593; telephone 202-372-1407, or email
[email protected]. 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 submit comments and related materials on the
advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM). With the exception of
confidential and sensitive comments, 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
notice (USCG-2013-0175) 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 telephone 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,
click on the ``submit a comment'' box, which will then become
highlighted in blue. In the ``Document Type'' drop down menu select
``Proposed Rule'' and insert ``USCG-2013-0175'' in the ``Keyword'' box.
Click ``Search'' then click on the balloon shape 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 your 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 proposed rule based on your comments.
If you submit comments, do not send materials that include trade
secrets, confidential, commercial, or financial information; or
Sensitive Security Information to the public regulatory docket. Please
submit such comments separately from other comments on the rulemaking.
Comments containing this type of information should be appropriately
marked as containing such information and submitted by mail to the
Coast Guard point of contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section.
Upon receipt of such comments, the Coast Guard will not place the
comments in the public docket and will handle them in accordance with
applicable safeguards and restrictions on access. The Coast Guard will
hold them in a separate file to which the public does not have access,
and place a note in the public docket that the Coast Guard has received
such materials from the commenter. If the Coast Guard receives a
request to examine or copy this information, we will treat it as any
other request under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
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,
click on the ``read comments'' box, which will then become highlighted
in blue. In the ``Keyword'' box insert ``USCG-2013-0175'' and 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 all 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. Regulatory History and Information
On April 14, 2014, the Coast Guard published an ANPRM, ``Training
of Personnel and Manning on Mobile
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Offshore Units and Offshore Supply Vessels Engaged in U.S. Outer
Continental Shelf Activities'' (79 FR 20844). In the ANPRM, the Coast
Guard announced that it is considering expanding current maritime
safety training requirements to cover all persons other than crew
working on offshore supply vessels (OSVs) and mobile offshore units
(MOUs) that are involved in activities on the U.S. Outer Continental
Shelf (OCS), regardless of flag. The rationale for expanding this
safety training is to ensure that more effective responses and
protocols are in place to address emergencies and other incidents both,
onboard OSVs and MOUs that are engaged in activities on the OCS, and to
thwart or mitigate potential damage to the surrounding environment
where these vessels operate. Examples of safety concerns include fire,
personal injuries, and abandon ship situations. Some urgent response
scenarios take place in hazardous environments and under extreme
weather conditions. Recent incidents involving human casualties and
environmental damage underscore the need to expand training
requirements to apply to persons other than crew since current safety
training regulations only apply to maritime crew.
III. Reason for the Extension
On May 29, 2014, the International Association of Drilling
Contractors requested that the Coast Guard extend the comment period by
an additional 60 days to allow their organization, and others in the
industry, more time to respond to the ANPRM and to gather the
``organizational and economic data'' that the Coast Guard requested in
the ANPRM. The Coast Guard is extending the public comment period, as
requested, to ensure that all stakeholders (industry, State and Federal
Government agencies, and other individuals who would be impacted by
this rulemaking) have adequate time to review and fully respond to the
questions posed in the ANPRM and to any other material included in the
ANPRM.
We encourage all members of the public to send comments explaining
what, if any, impact this ANPRM could have on them or their
organizations. Also, we ask that commenters be specific and detailed in
their submissions to aid us in effectively responding to the comments,
and so that we may craft regulations that will enhance existing
maritime safety training.
This notice of extension is issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C.
552(a).
Dated: July 3, 2014.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast Guard.
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