81_FR_45050 81 FR 44918 - Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel GAMETIME; Invitation for Public Comments

81 FR 44918 - Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel GAMETIME; Invitation for Public Comments

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 132 (July 11, 2016)

Page Range44918-44919
FR Document2016-16315

As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 132 (Monday, July 11, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 132 (Monday, July 11, 2016)]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-16315]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD-2016 0066]


Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws: 
Vessel GAMETIME; Invitation for Public Comments

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of 
Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 
is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the 
coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver 
has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the 
proposed service, is listed below.

DATES: Submit comments on or before August 10, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to docket number MARAD-2016-0066. 
Written comments may be submitted by hand or by mail to the Docket 
Clerk, U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590. You may also send comments electronically via the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. All comments will become part 
of this docket and will be available for inspection and copying at the 
above address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday, 
except federal holidays. An electronic version of this document and all 
documents entered into this docket is available on the World Wide Web 
at http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 
Room W23-453, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202-366-9309, Email 
Bianca.carr@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As described by the applicant the intended 
service of the vessel GAMETIME is:

Intended Commercial Use Of Vessel: ``UPV, For Charter (sport fishing) 
fishing, on the Inland Great Lakes''
Geographic Region: ``Wisconsin, Michigan''
    The complete application is given in DOT docket MARAD-2016-0066 at 
http://www.regulations.gov. Interested parties may comment on the 
effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in 
the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in accordance 
with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR part 388, that 
the issuance of the waiver will have an unduly adverse effect on a 
U.S.-vessel builder or a business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in that 
business, a waiver will not be granted. Comments should refer to the 
docket number of this notice and the vessel name in order for MARAD to 
properly consider the comments. Comments should also state the 
commenter's interest in the waiver application, and address the waiver 
criteria given in Sec.  388.4 of MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR part 
388.

Privacy Act

    Anyone is able to 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 DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78).

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

     Dated: June 30, 2016.
Gabriel Chavez,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-16315 Filed 7-8-16; 8:45 am]
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44918 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 132 / Monday, July 11, 2016 / Notices but the Agency was increasing its Estimated Total Annual Burden: ATA also asked that Agency estimates estimate of the IC burden to 9.8 million 10.21 million hours. account for the burden of a practice it hours because both the population of described as common among motor Background CMV drivers and the frequency of their carriers. These carriers refer newly- hiring had increased. Today the Agency The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 hired drivers for medical examination further increases its burden estimate to [Pub. L. 98–554, Title II, 98 Stat. 2834 even if their current medical certificate 10.21 million hours in response to a (October 30, 1984)] requires the is still valid. This practice triggers the comment received to that notice. Secretary of Transportation to issue requirement of § 391.51(b)(7)(ii) that regulations pertaining to commercial motor carriers obtain the results of each DATES: Please send your comments to motor vehicle (CMV) safety. These medical examination of its CDL drivers this notice by August 10, 2016. OMB regulations are also issued under the from the State Driver Licensing Agency must receive your comments by this authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 504, (SDLA). The medical status of CDL date to act quickly on the ICR. 31133, 31136, and 31502. Part 391 of drivers is a part of the driver’s motor ADDRESSES: All comments should volume 49 of the Code of Federal vehicle record (MVR) maintained by the reference Federal Docket Management Regulations contains the minimum SDLA. ATA asked the Agency to System (FDMS) Docket Number qualifications of drivers of CMVs in account for the burden these carriers FMCSA–2015–0508. Interested persons interstate commerce. experience obtaining the MVRs of their are invited to submit written comments Motor carriers may not require or newly-hired CDL drivers. The Agency on the proposed information collection permit an unqualified driver to operate cannot do so because the burden is not to the Office of Information and a CMV. The foremost proof of driver cognizable under the PRA. The PRA Regulatory Affairs, Office of qualification is the information that part requires Agencies to estimate burdens Management and Budget. Comments 391 requires be collected and imposed by their regulatory should be addressed to the attention of maintained in the driver qualification requirements but these medical the OMB Desk Officer, DOT/FMCSA, file (DQ file). Motor carriers must obtain examinations of newly hired drivers are and sent via electronic mail to oira_ this information from sources specified not required by regulation. These motor submission@omb.eop.gov, faxed to (202) in the regulations (49 CFR 391.51), such carriers are voluntarily referring newly- 395–6974, or mailed to the Office of as the driver, previous employers of the hired CDL drivers for a new medical Information and Regulatory Affairs, driver, and officials of the State of driver examination. Office of Management and Budget, licensure. Motor carriers are not Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th required to forward DQ information to Public Comments Invited Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. FMCSA, but must maintain the FMCSA requests that you comment FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. information in a DQ file and make it on any aspect of this information Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver and available to State and Federal safety collection, including: (1) Whether the Carrier Operations Division, DOT, investigators on demand. proposed collection is necessary for FMCSA, West Building, 6th Floor, 1200 The Agency is asking OMB to approve FMCSA’s revised estimate of the FMCSA to perform its functions, (2) the New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) DC 20590. Telephone: 202–366–4325. paperwork burden imposed by its DQ file regulations. The regulations have ways for the FMCSA to enhance the Email: MCPSD@dot.gov. quality, usefulness, and clarity of the not been amended; the information- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: collection (IC) burden imposed on collected information, and (4) ways that Title: Driver Qualification Files. individual drivers and motor carriers by the burden could be minimized without OMB Control Number: 2126–0004. the regulations is unchanged. However, reducing the quality of the collected Type of Request: Extension of a the Agency has increased its estimate of information. The agency will summarize currently-approved information the total IC burden of the DQ-file or include your comments in the request collection. regulations because both the number of for OMB’s clearance of this information Respondents: Motor carriers and CMV drivers and the turnover rate in collection. drivers of commercial motor vehicles. their hiring have increased since the Issued under the authority delegated in 49 Estimated Number of Respondents: Agency’s 2012 estimate of this burden. CFR 1.87 on: June 30, 2016. 6.2 million (5.7 million drivers and .5 The increase in the number of CMV G. Kelly Regal, million motor carriers. drivers is partly the result of the Agency Associate Administrator, Office of Research Estimated Time per Response: 35 being directed by OMB to include and Information Technology. minutes (average). intrastate as well as interstate drivers in [FR Doc. 2016–16313 Filed 7–8–16; 8:45 am] Expiration Date: July 31, 2016. the population of drivers incurring an IC BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P Frequency of Response: Responses to burden under the DQ file regulations. some regulatory requirements of the The Agency had excluded intrastate driver qualification rules occur on a drivers from a past estimate. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION random basis. Other responses occur The Agency received one comment to more predictably. Some responses recur; the 60-day Federal Register notice of Maritime Administration others do not. For example, motor February 17, 2016. The American carriers are required to obtain and Trucking Associations pointed out that [Docket No. MARAD–2016 0066] review the motor vehicle driving record FMCSA estimates did not account for of their drivers from the State of the substantial portion of driver medical Requested Administrative Waiver of sradovich on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES licensure. They must complete this task certificates that are not issued for the the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel at the time of hiring and every year maximum two-year period. GAMETIME; Invitation for Public thereafter. The time-of-hiring Accordingly, FMCSA has adjusted its Comments requirement results in a random estimate for this element of the burden. AGENCY: Maritime Administration, frequency of response, but, thereafter, The overall burden, formerly estimated Department of Transportation. the annual requirement results in a to be 9.8 million hours, is now ACTION: Notice. fixed frequency of response. estimated to be 10.21 million hours. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 132 / Monday, July 11, 2016 / Notices 44919 SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. the commenter’s interest in the waiver federal holidays. An electronic version 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, application, and address the waiver of this document and all documents as represented by the Maritime criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s entered into this docket is available on Administration (MARAD), is authorized regulations at 46 CFR part 388. the World Wide Web at http:// to grant waivers of the U.S.-build www.regulations.gov. Privacy Act requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for Anyone is able to search the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: such a waiver has been received by electronic form of all comments Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of MARAD. The vessel, and a brief received into any of our dockets by the Transportation, Maritime description of the proposed service, is name of the individual submitting the Administration, 1200 New Jersey listed below. comment (or signing the comment, if Avenue SE, Room W23–453, DATES: Submit comments on or before submitted on behalf of an association, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– August 10, 2016. business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to Statement in the Federal Register SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As docket number MARAD–2016–0066. published on April 11, 2000 (Volume Written comments may be submitted by described by the applicant the intended 65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). service of the vessel SANDPIPER is: hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, U.S. Department of Transportation, By Order of the Maritime Administrator. Intended Commercial Use of Vessel: Docket Operations, M–30, West Dated: June 30, 2016. ‘‘Weekend Captained Sailing Charters’’ Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Gabriel Chavez, Geographic Region: ‘‘Minnesota, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Secretary, Maritime Administration. Wisconsin and Michigan’’ The complete Washington, DC 20590. You may also [FR Doc. 2016–16315 Filed 7–8–16; 8:45 am] application is given in DOT docket send comments electronically via the BILLING CODE 4910–81–P MARAD–2016–0061 at http:// Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. www.regulations.gov. Interested parties All comments will become part of this may comment on the effect this action docket and will be available for DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION may have on U.S. vessel builders or inspection and copying at the above businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Maritime Administration vessels. If MARAD determines, in E.T., Monday through Friday, except [Docket No. MARAD–2016 0061] accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and federal holidays. An electronic version MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part of this document and all documents Requested Administrative Waiver of 388, that the issuance of the waiver will entered into this docket is available on the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- the World Wide Web at http:// SANDPIPER; Invitation for Public vessel builder or a business that uses www.regulations.gov. Comments U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Maritime Administration, waiver will not be granted. Comments Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of Department of Transportation. should refer to the docket number of Transportation, Maritime ACTION: Notice. this notice and the vessel name in order Administration, 1200 New Jersey for MARAD to properly consider the Avenue SE., Room W23–453, SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. comments. Comments should also state Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, the commenter’s interest in the waiver 366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. as represented by the Maritime application, and address the waiver SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As Administration (MARAD), is authorized criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s described by the applicant the intended to grant waivers of the U.S.-build regulations at 46 CFR part 388. service of the vessel GAMETIME is: requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for Privacy Act Intended Commercial Use Of Vessel: ‘‘UPV, For Charter (sport fishing) such a waiver has been received by Anyone is able to search the fishing, on the Inland Great Lakes’’ MARAD. The vessel, and a brief electronic form of all comments Geographic Region: ‘‘Wisconsin, description of the proposed service, is received into any of our dockets by the Michigan’’ listed below. name of the individual submitting the The complete application is given in DATES: Submit comments on or before comment (or signing the comment, if DOT docket MARAD–2016–0066 at August 10, 2016. submitted on behalf of an association, http://www.regulations.gov. Interested ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to business, labor union, etc.). You may parties may comment on the effect this docket number MARAD–2016–0061. review DOT’s complete Privacy Act action may have on U.S. vessel builders Written comments may be submitted by Statement in the Federal Register or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, published on April 11, 2000 (Volume flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in U.S. Department of Transportation, accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and Docket Operations, M–30, West 65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 388, that the issuance of the waiver will 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Dated: June 30, 2016. have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- Washington, DC 20590. You may also sradovich on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES Gabriel Chavez, vessel builder or a business that uses send comments electronically via the Secretary, Maritime Administration. U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. [FR Doc. 2016–16261 Filed 7–8–16; 8:45 am] waiver will not be granted. Comments All comments will become part of this BILLING CODE 4910–81–P should refer to the docket number of docket and will be available for this notice and the vessel name in order inspection and copying at the above for MARAD to properly consider the address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., comments. Comments should also state E.T., Monday through Friday, except VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:55 Jul 08, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\11JYN1.SGM 11JYN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
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GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesSubmit comments on or before August 10, 2016.
ContactBianca Carr, U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W23-453, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202-366-9309, Email [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 44918 
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