[Federal Register: December 27, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 247)]
[Notices]
[Page 77260-77261]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[USCG-2004-19946]


Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of minimum random drug testing rate.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2005 minimum random
drug testing rate at 50 percent of covered crewmembers. An evaluation
of the 2003 Management Information System (MIS) data collection forms
submitted by marine employers determined that random drug testing on
covered crewmembers for the calendar year 2003 resulted in positive
test results 2.07 percent of the time. Based on this percentage, we
will maintain the minimum random drug testing rate at 50 percent of
covered crewmembers for the calendar year 2005.

DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1,
2005 through December 31, 2005. You must submit your 2004 MIS reports
no later than March 15, 2005.

ADDRESSES: The annual MIS report may by submitted in writing to
Commandant (G-MOA), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street
SW., Room 2404, Washington, DC 20593-0001 or by electronic submission
to the following Internet address: http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/moa/dapip.htm
.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice,
please contact Mr. Robert C. Schoening, Drug and Alcohol Program
Manager, Office of Investigations and Analysis (G-MOA), U.S. Coast
Guard Headquarters, telephone (202) 267-0684. If you have questions on
viewing the docket, call Andrea M. Jenkins, Program Manager, Dockets
Operations, Department of Transportation, telephone (202) 366-0271.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 46 CFR 16.230, the Coast Guard
requires marine employers to establish random drug testing programs for
covered crewmembers on inspected and uninspected vessels. All marine
employers are required to collect and maintain a record of drug testing
program data for each calendar year, January 1 through December 31. You
must submit this data by 15 March of the following year to the Coast
Guard in an annual MIS report.
    You may either submit your own MIS report or have a consortium or
other employer representative submit the data in a consolidated MIS
report. The chemical drug testing data is essential to analyze our
current approach for deterring and detecting illegal drug abuse in the
maritime industry.
    Since 2003 MIS data indicates that the positive random testing rate
is greater than one percent industry-wide (2.07 percent), the Coast
Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate is set at 50
percent of covered employees for the period of January 1, 2005, through
December 31, 2005, in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e).
    Each year we will publish a notice reporting the results of the
previous calendar year's MIS data, and the minimum annual percentage
rate for

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random drug testing for the next calendar year.

    Dated: December 16, 2004.
T.H. Gilmour,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety,
Security and Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 04-28229 Filed 12-23-04; 8:45 am]

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