82_FR_6733 82 FR 6721 - Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel MIRA MAR; Invitation for Public Comments

82 FR 6721 - Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel MIRA MAR; Invitation for Public Comments

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 12 (January 19, 2017)

Page Range6721-6722
FR Document2017-01085

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 82 Issue 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017) 
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD-2017-0004]


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

AGENCY: Maritime Administration

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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 February 21, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to docket number MARAD-2017-0004. 
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 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except federal holidays. An electronic version of this document and all 
documents entered into this docket is available 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 
[email protected].

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

--Intended Commercial Use of Vessel: Vessel will be used for captained 
charters and sailing instruction with a heavy emphasis on recreational 
boating safety knowledge and skills, and for the promotion of the 
National ON-Water Standards (NOWS) program and the American National 
Standards (ANS) adoption by individuals and organizations.
--Geographic Region: ``Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North 
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia''


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The complete application is given in DOT docket MARAD-2017- 0004 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

    In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT/MARAD solicits comments 
from the public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT/MARAD 
posts these comments, without edit, to www.regulations.gov, as 
described in the system of records notice, DOT/ALL-14 FDMS, accessible 
through www.dot.gov/privacy. In order to facilitate comment tracking 
and response, we encourage commenters to provide their name, or the 
name of their organization; however, submission of names is completely 
optional. Whether or not commenters identify themselves, all timely 
comments will be fully considered. If you wish to provide comments 
containing proprietary or confidential information, please contact the 
agency for alternate submission instructions.

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

    Dated: January 10, 2017.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017-01085 Filed 1-18-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 / Notices 6721 Assistance Assessments Initiative, FTA recommend that you initiate your search, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION collaborates with Tribal Transit Leaders registration, and application process with to review processes and identify areas in Grants.gov. Visiting the Grants.gov site will Maritime Administration need of improvement and then assists to inform you of how to apply for grant [Docket No. MARAD–2017–0004] offer solutions to address these needs— opportunities, as well as assist you in linking all in a supportive and mutually to the other required registrations, i.e., Dun Requested Administrative Waiver of beneficial manner that results in & Bradstreet to obtain a DUNS Number, and the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel technical assistance. FTA has completed System for Award Management (SAM). MIRA MAR; Invitation for Public thirty assessments to date, and expects Summary of steps (these steps are available Comments to do fifteen assessments in FY17. These in Grants.gov during registration): assessments include discussions of Step 1: Obtain DUNS Number AGENCY: Maritime Administration compliance areas pursuant to the Master ACTION: Notice. Same day. If requested by phone (1–866– Agreement, a site visit, promising 705–5711) DUNS is provided immediately. If SUMMARY: The Secretary of practices reviews, and technical your organization does not have one, you Transportation, as represented by the assistance from FTA and its contractors. will need to go to the Dun & Bradstreet Web Maritime Administration (MARAD), is These workshops and assessments have site at http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform to authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- received exemplary feedback from obtain the number. build requirement of the coastwise laws Tribal Transit Leaders and provided Step 2: Register With SAM under certain circumstances. A request FTA with invaluable opportunities to Three to five business days or up to two for such a waiver has been received by learn more about Tribal Transit Leaders’ weeks. If you already have a Taxpayer MARAD. The vessel, and a brief perspectives so to better honor the Identification Number (TIN), your SAM description of the proposed service, is sovereignty of tribal nations. FTA will post information about registration will take three to five business listed below. upcoming workshops to its Web site and days to process. If you are applying for an DATES: Submit comments on or before will disseminate information about the Employer Identification Number (EIN) please February 21, 2017. assessments through its regional offices. allow up to two weeks. Ensure that your ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to Contact information for FTA’s regional organization is registered with the System for docket number MARAD–2017–0004. offices can be found on FTA’s Web site Award Management (SAM) at https:// Written comments may be submitted by at www.transit.dot.gov/about/regional- www.sam.gov. If your organization is not, an hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, offices. Applicants may also receive authorizing official of your organization must U.S. Department of Transportation, technical assistance by contacting their register. Docket Operations, M–30, West FTA regional Tribal Liaison. A list of Step 3: Establish an Account in Grants.gov— Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Tribal Liaisons is available on FTA’s Username & Password 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Web site at www.transit.dot.gov/ Same day. Complete your Authorized Washington, DC 20590. You may also funding/grants/grant-programs/public- Organization Representative (AOR) profile on send comments electronically via the transportation-indian-reservations- Grants.gov and create your username and Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. program-tribal-transit. password. You will need to use your All comments will become part of this organization’s DUNS Number to complete docket and will be available for Carolyn Flowers, inspection and copying at the above this step. https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/ Acting Administrator. address between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 OrcRegister. Appendix A Step 4: Grants.gov—AOR Authorization p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. An electronic version Registering in SAM and Grants.Gov * Same day. The E-Business Point of of this document and all documents Registration in Brief Contact (E-Biz POC) at your organization entered into this docket is available at must login to Grants.gov to confirm you as http://www.regulations.gov. Registration takes approximately three to five business days, please allow four weeks an Authorized Organization Representative FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: for completion of all steps. (AOR). Please note that there can be more than one AOR for your organization. In some Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of In order to apply for a grant, you and/or cases the E-Biz POC is also the AOR for an Transportation, Maritime your organization must first complete the registration process in Grants.gov. The organization. *Time depends on Administration, 1200 New Jersey registration process for an Organization or an responsiveness of your E-Biz POC. Avenue SE., Room W23–453, Individual can take between three to five * Please Note: Grants.gov gives you the Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– business days or as long as four weeks if all option of registering as an ‘‘individual’’ or as 366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. steps are not completed in a timely manner. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As an ‘‘organization.’’ If you register in So please register in Grants.gov early. described by the applicant the intended The Grants.gov registration process ensures Grants.gov as an as an ‘‘Individual,’’ your that applicants for Federal Funds have the ‘‘Organization’’ will not be allowed to use the service of the vessel MIRA MAR is: basic prerequisites to apply for and to receive Grants.gov username and password. To apply —Intended Commercial Use of Vessel: federal funds. Applicants for FTA for grants as an Organization you must Vessel will be used for captained competitive funds must: register as an Organization and use that charters and sailing instruction with a • Have a valid DUNS number specific username and password issued heavy emphasis on recreational • Have a current registration in SAM during the ‘‘organization’’ registration boating safety knowledge and skills, (formerly CCR) process. and for the promotion of the National mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES • Register and apply in Grants.gov [FR Doc. 2017–01171 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] ON-Water Standards (NOWS) The required registration steps are program and the American National BILLING CODE P described in greater detail on Grants.gov Web site. The following is a link to a helpful Standards (ANS) adoption by checklist and explanations published by individuals and organizations. Grants.gov to assist applicants: Organization —Geographic Region: ‘‘Delaware, Registration Checklist. 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6722 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 / Notices The complete application is given in Maritime Administration (MARAD), is Privacy Act DOT docket MARAD–2017- 0004 at authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), http://www.regulations.gov. Interested build requirement of the coastwise laws DOT/MARAD solicits comments from parties may comment on the effect this under certain circumstances. A request the public to better inform its action may have on U.S. vessel builders for such a waiver has been received by rulemaking process. DOT/MARAD posts or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- MARAD. The vessel, and a brief these comments, without edit, to flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in description of the proposed service, is www.regulations.gov, as described in accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and listed below. the system of records notice, DOT/ALL– MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part DATES: Submit comments on or before 14 FDMS, accessible through 388, that the issuance of the waiver will February 21, 2017. www.dot.gov/privacy. In order to have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to facilitate comment tracking and vessel builder or a business that uses docket number MARAD–2017- 0003. response, we encourage commenters to U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a Written comments may be submitted by provide their name, or the name of their waiver will not be granted. Comments hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, organization; however, submission of should refer to the docket number of U.S. Department of Transportation, names is completely optional. Whether this notice and the vessel name in order Docket Operations, M–30, West or not commenters identify themselves, for MARAD to properly consider the Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, all timely comments will be fully comments. Comments should also state 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., considered. If you wish to provide the commenter’s interest in the waiver Washington, DC 20590. You may also comments containing proprietary or application, and address the waiver send comments electronically via the confidential information, please contact criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. the agency for alternate submission regulations at 46 CFR part 388. All comments will become part of this instructions. Privacy Act docket and will be available for By Order of the Maritime Administrator. inspection and copying at the above Dated: January 10, 2017. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), address between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., DOT/MARAD solicits comments from p.m., Monday through Friday, except Secretary, Maritime Administration. the public to better inform its federal holidays. An electronic version rulemaking process. DOT/MARAD posts [FR Doc. 2017–01088 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] of this document and all documents these comments, without edit, to BILLING CODE 4910–81–P entered into this docket is available at www.regulations.gov, as described in http://www.regulations.gov. the system of records notice, DOT/ALL– 14 FDMS, accessible through FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION www.dot.gov/privacy. In order to Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of facilitate comment tracking and Transportation, Maritime Maritime Administration response, we encourage commenters to Administration, 1200 New Jersey [Docket No. MARAD–2017–0008] provide their name, or the name of their Avenue SE., Room W23–453, organization; however, submission of Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– Requested Administrative Waiver of names is completely optional. Whether 366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel or not commenters identify themselves, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As MAJESTIK; Invitation for Public all timely comments will be fully described by the applicant the intended Comments considered. If you wish to provide service of the vessel SHAUN T is: AGENCY: Maritime Administration. comments containing proprietary or —Intended Commercial Use Of Vessel: ACTION: Notice. confidential information, please contact ‘‘The intended use is an un-inspected the agency for alternate submission 6-passenger commercial tour/cruising SUMMARY: The Secretary of instructions. vessel’’ Transportation, as represented by the By Order of the Maritime Administrator. —Geographic Region: Hawaii Maritime Administration (MARAD), is Dated: January 10, 2017. The complete application is given in authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., DOT docket MARAD–2017–0003 at build requirement of the coastwise laws http://www.regulations.gov. Interested under certain circumstances. A request Secretary, Maritime Administration. parties may comment on the effect this for such a waiver has been received by [FR Doc. 2017–01085 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] action may have on U.S. vessel builders MARAD. The vessel, and a brief BILLING CODE 4910–81–P description of the proposed service, is or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in listed below. accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and DATES: Submit comments on or before DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part February 21, 2017. Maritime Administration 388, that the issuance of the waiver will ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- docket number MARAD–2017–0008. [Docket No. MARAD–2017–0003] vessel builder or a business that uses Written comments may be submitted by U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, Requested Administrative Waiver of waiver will not be granted. Comments U.S. Department of Transportation, the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel should refer to the docket number of Docket Operations, M–30, West mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES SHAUN T; Invitation for Public this notice and the vessel name in order Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Comments for MARAD to properly consider the 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., AGENCY: Maritime Administration. comments. Comments should also state Washington, DC 20590. You may also ACTION: Notice. the commenter’s interest in the waiver send comments electronically via the application, and address the waiver Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesSubmit comments on or before February 21, 2017.
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 Citation82 FR 6721 
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