82 FR 32780 - Lower Mississippi Waterway Safety Advisory Committee-Input To Support Regulatory Reform of Coast Guard Regulations-New Task

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 136 (July 18, 2017)

Page Range		32780-32782
FR Document		2017-14991

The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to the Lower Mississippi Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC). The U.S. Coast Guard is asking LMRWSAC 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 LMRWSAC recommendations as part of the process of identifying regulations, guidance, and collections of information to be repealed, replaced, or modified pursuant to the three Executive Orders discussed above.

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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-2017-0659]


Lower Mississippi Waterway 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 Lower Mississippi 
Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC); teleconference meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to the Lower 
Mississippi Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC). The U.S. 
Coast Guard is asking LMRWSAC 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 LMRWSAC 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 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. CST. 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 26, 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 26, 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-2017-0659'' in the Search box, press Enter, and then 
click on the item you wish to view.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Brian Porter, Alternate 
Designated Federal Officer of the Lower Mississippi Waterway Advisory 
Committee, telephone (504) 365-2375, or email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

New Task to the Committee

    The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to LMRWSAC 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. LMRWSAC 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

    LMRWSAC 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.

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    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 
http://homeport.uscg.mil/lmrwsac and uploaded as supporting documents 
in the electronic docket for this action, [USCG-2017-0659], at 
Regulations.gov.

Jeffrey G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards.
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telephone (202) 372–1108, or email issuing similar tasks to each of its believes have led to the elimination of jobs
ryan.f.owens@uscg.mil. Committees. A detailed discussion of or inhibits job creation within a particular
each of the Executive orders and industry.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
3. All regulations, guidance, and
information on where U.S. Coast Guard
New Task to the Committee information collections, or parts thereof,
regulations, guidance, and information recommended by the Committee should be
The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new collections are found is in the June 8th described in sufficient detail (by section,
task to NMSAC to provide notice. paragraph, sentence, clause, etc.) so that it
recommendations on whether existing can readily be identified. Data (quantitative
regulations, guidance, and information The Task
or qualitative) should be provided to support
collections (that fall within the scope of NMSAC is tasked to: and illustrate the impact, cost, or burden, as
the Committee’s charter) should be Provide input to the U.S. Coast Guard on applicable, for each recommendation. If the
repealed, replaced, or modified. all existing regulations, guidance, and data is not readily available, the Committee
NMSAC will then provide advice and information collections that fall within the should include information as to how such
recommendations on the assigned task scope of the Committee’s charter. information can be obtained either by the
1. One or more subcommittees/working Committee or directly by the Coast Guard.
and submit a final recommendation
report to the U.S. Coast Guard. groups, as needed, will be established to Public Participation
work on this tasking in accordance with the
Background Committee charter and bylaws. The All meetings associated with this
On January 30, 2017, President Trump subcommittee(s) shall terminate upon the tasking, both full Committee meetings
approval and submission of a final and subcommittee/working groups, are
issued Executive Order 13771, recommendation to the U.S. Coast Guard
‘‘Reducing Regulation and Controlling open to the public. A public oral
from the parent Committee.
Regulatory Costs.’’ Under that Executive comment period will be held during the
2. Review regulations, guidance, and
Order, for every one new regulation information collections and provide August 24, 2017, teleconference. Public
issued, at least two prior regulations recommendations whether an existing rule, comments or questions will be taken at
must be identified for elimination, and guidance, or information collection should be the discretion of the Designated Federal
the cost of planned regulations must be repealed, replaced or modified. If the Officer; commenters are requested to
prudently managed and controlled Committee recommends modification, please limit their comments to 3 minutes.
provide specific recommendations for how Please contact the individual listed in
through a budgeting process. On
the regulation, guidance, or information the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
February 24, 2017, the President issued collection should be modified.
Executive Order 13777, ‘‘Enforcing the section, to register as a commenter.
Recommendations should include an
Regulatory Reform Agenda.’’ That explanation on how and to what extent Subcommittee meetings held in
Executive Order directs agencies to take repeal, replacement or modification will association with this tasking will be
specific steps to identify and alleviate reduce costs or burdens to industry and the announced as they are scheduled
unnecessary regulatory burdens placed extent to which risks to health or safety through notices posted to http://
on the American people. On March 28, would likely increase. homeport.uscg.mil/nmsac and uploaded
2017, the President issued Executive a. Identify regulations, guidance, or as supporting documents in the
information collections that potentially electronic docket for this action,
Order 13783, ‘‘Promoting Energy
impose the following types of burden on the
Independence and Economic Growth.’’ [USCG–2017–0663], at Regulations.gov.
industry:
Executive Order 13783 promotes the i. Regulations, guidance, or information Jennifer F. Williams,
clean and safe development of our collections imposing administrative burdens Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of
Nation’s vast energy resources, while at on the industry. Inspections and Compliance.
the same time avoiding agency actions ii. Regulations, guidance, or information
collections imposing burdens in the [FR Doc. 2017–15046 Filed 7–17–17; 8:45 am]
that unnecessarily encumber energy
production. development or use of domestically BILLING CODE 9110–04–P

When implementing the regulatory produced energy resources. ‘‘Burden,’’ for the
offsets required by Executive Order purposes of compliance with Executive
13771, each agency head is directed to
Order 13783, means ‘‘to unnecessarily DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
obstruct, delay, curtail, or otherwise impose SECURITY
prioritize, to the extent permitted by significant costs on the siting, permitting,
law, those regulations that the agency’s production, utilization, transmission, or Coast Guard
Regulatory Reform Task Force identifies delivery of energy resources.’’
as outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective b. Identify regulations, guidance, or 33 CFR Chapter I
in accordance with Executive Order information collections that potentially
13777. As part of this process to comply impose the following types of costs on the
industry: 46 CFR Chapters I and III
with all three Executive Orders, the U.S.
Coast Guard is reaching out through i. Regulations, guidance, or information
collections imposing costs that are outdated 49 CFR Chapter IV
multiple avenues to interested (such as due to technological advancement),
individuals to gather their input about [Docket No. USCG–2017–0659]
or are no longer necessary.
what regulations, guidance, and ii. Regulations, guidance, or information
information collections, they believe collections imposing costs which are no
Lower Mississippi Waterway Safety
may need to be repealed, replaced, or longer enforced as written or which are Advisory Committee—Input To
ineffective. Support Regulatory Reform of Coast
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modified. On June 8, 2017, the U.S.
Coast Guard issued a general notice in iii. Regulations, guidance, or information Guard Regulations—New Task
the Federal Register requesting collections imposing costs tied to reporting
or recordkeeping requirements that impose AGENCY: U.S. Coast Guard, Department
comments from interested individuals of Homeland Security.
burdens that exceed benefits. Explain why
regarding their recommendations, 82 FR the reporting or recordkeeping requirement is ACTION: Announcement of new task
26632. In addition to this general overly burdensome, unnecessary, or how it assignment for the Lower Mississippi
solicitation, the U.S. Coast Guard also could be modified. Waterway Safety Advisory Committee
wants to leverage the expertise of its c. Identify regulations, guidance, and (LMRWSAC); teleconference meeting.
Federal Advisory Committees and is information collections that the Committee

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ii. Regulations, guidance, or information ACTION: Proposed rule. Section, Air Programs Branch (AR–18J),
collections imposing costs which are no Environmental Protection Agency,
longer enforced as written or which are SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
ineffective. Agency (EPA) is approving revised rules
iii. Regulations, guidance, or information
Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886–3901,
submitted by the State of Illinois as becker.michelle@epa.gov.
collections imposing costs tied to reporting State Implementation Plan (SIP)
or recordkeeping requirements that impose SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
burdens that exceed benefits. Explain why revisions. The submitted rules update
Final Rules section of this issue of the
the reporting or recordkeeping requirement is Illinois’ ambient air quality standards to
Federal Register, EPA is approving the
overly burdensome, unnecessary, or how it include the 2015 primary National
State’s SIP submittal as a direct final
could be modified. Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
c. Identify regulations, guidance, and rule without prior proposal because the
for ozone (O3), add EPA-promulgated
information collections that the Committee Agency views this as a noncontroversial
monitoring methods for multiple
believes have led to the elimination of jobs submittal and anticipates no adverse
NAAQS, and address EPA’s revocation
or inhibits job creation within a particular comments. A detailed rationale for the
industry.
of the 1997 O3 NAAQS. In addition, the
approval is set forth in the direct final
3. All regulations, guidance, and revised rules contain the timing
rule. If no adverse comments are
information collections, or parts thereof, requirements for the ‘‘flagging of
received in response to this rule, no
recommended by the Committee should be exceptional events’’ and the submission
further activity is contemplated. If EPA
described in sufficient detail (by section, of documentation supporting
paragraph, sentence, clause, etc.) so that it receives adverse comments, the direct
exceptional events for the initial area
can readily be identified. Data (quantitative final rule will be withdrawn and all
designations for the 2015 primary
or qualitative) should be provided to support public comments received will be
annual O3 standard. These SIP revisions
and illustrate the impact, cost, or burden, as addressed in a subsequent final rule
applicable, for each recommendation. If the update Illinois air pollution control
based on this proposed rule. EPA will
data is not readily available, the Committee regulations to be ‘‘identical-in-
not institute a second comment period.
should include information as to how such substance’’ to EPA rulemakings related
Any parties interested in commenting
information can be obtained either by the to the NAAQS that occurred between
Committee or directly by the Coast Guard. on this action should do so at this time.
January 1, 2014 and July 13, 2016.
Please note that if EPA receives adverse
Public Participation DATES: Comments must be received on comment on an amendment, paragraph,
or before August 17, 2017. or section of this rule and if that
All meetings associated with this
tasking, both full Committee meetings ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, provision may be severed from the
and subcommittee/working groups, are identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt
open to the public. A public oral OAR–2016–0512, EPA–R05–OAR– as final those provisions of the rule that
comment period will be held during the 2016–0522, or EPA–R05–2017–0322 at are not the subject of an adverse
August 2, 2017, teleconference. Public https://www.regulations.gov or via email comment. For additional information,
comments or questions will be taken at to aburano.douglas@epa.gov. For see the direct final rule which is located
the discretion of the Designated Federal comments submitted at Regulations.gov, in the Rules section of this issue of the
Officer; commenters are requested to follow the online instructions for Federal Register.
limit their comments to 3 minutes. submitting comments. Once submitted,
Dated: July 6, 2017.
Please contact the individual listed in comments cannot be edited or removed
Cheryl L. Newton,
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT from Regulations.gov. For either manner
of submission, EPA may publish any Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
section, to register as a commenter.
comment received to its public docket. [FR Doc. 2017–14945 Filed 7–17–17; 8:45 am]
Subcommittee meetings held in
association with this tasking will be Do not submit electronically any BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

announced as they are scheduled information you consider to be
through notices posted to http://home Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
port.uscg.mil/lmrwsac and uploaded as
restricted by statute. Multimedia AGENCY
supporting documents in the electronic
docket for this action, [USCG–2017– submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
40 CFR Part 52
0659], at Regulations.gov. accompanied by a written comment.
The written comment is considered the [EPA–R04–OAR–2007–0085; FRL–9965–01–
Jeffrey G. Lantz, official comment and should include Region 4]
Director of Commercial Regulations and discussion of all points you wish to
Standards. make. EPA will generally not consider Air Plan Approval; NC; Open Burning
[FR Doc. 2017–14991 Filed 7–17–17; 8:45 am] comments or comment contents located and Miscellaneous Revisions
BILLING CODE 9110–04–P outside of the primary submission (i.e. AGENCY: Environmental Protection
on the web, cloud, or other file sharing Agency (EPA).
system). For additional submission ACTION: Proposed rule.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION methods, please contact the person
AGENCY identified in the FOR FURTHER SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve
40 CFR Part 52 full EPA public comment policy,
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several revisions to the North Carolina
[EPA–R05–OAR–2016–0512; EPA–R05– information about CBI or multimedia State Implementation Plan (SIP)
2016–0522; EPA–R05–OAR–2017–0322; submissions, and general guidance on submitted by the State of North
FRL–9964–98–Region 5] making effective comments, please visit Carolina, through the North Carolina
https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ Department of Environmental Quality
Air Plan Approval; Illinois; NAAQS commenting-epa-dockets. (formerly the North Carolina
Updates
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Department of Environment and Natural
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Michelle Becker, Life Scientist, Resources), Division of Air Quality, on
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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Proposed Rules
Action		Announcement of new task assignment for the Lower Mississippi Waterway Safety Advisory Committee (LMRWSAC); teleconference meeting.
Dates		The full Committee is scheduled to meet by teleconference on August 2, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. CST. Please note that this teleconference may adjourn early if the Committee has completed its business.
Contact		Lieutenant Brian Porter, Alternate Designated Federal Officer of the Lower Mississippi Waterway Advisory Committee, telephone (504) 365-2375, or email [email protected]
FR Citation		82 FR 32780
CFR Citation		33 Title 33 CFR Chapter I 46 Title 46 CFR Chapter I 49 Title 49 CFR Chapter IV

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