[Federal Register: July 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 138)]
[Notices]
[Page 41777-41778]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[USCG-2005-21723]
Environmental Equivalency Evaluation Index: Methodology To Assess
the Oil Outflow Performance of Alternative Designs to the Double Hull
Oil Tanker
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the availability of an Environmental
Equivalency Evaluation Index, which establishes a methodology to assess
the oil outflow performance of alternative designs to the double hull
oil tanker. This Environmental Equivalency Evaluation Index has been
established in accordance with Section 705 of the Coast Guard and
Maritime Transportation Act of 2004.
ADDRESSES: Documents mentioned in this notice as being available in the
docket are part of public docket USCG-2005-21723, and are available for
inspection or copying at the Docket Management Facility, U.S.
Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. You may also find this docket on the Internet
at http://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this
notice, contact James Person, Coast Guard Office of Design and
Engineering Standards, by telephone at 202-267-2988 or via e-mail at
jperson@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing material in
the docket, call Andrea M. Jenkins, Program Manager, Docket Operations,
by telephone at 202-366-0271.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 705 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of
2004 amended Section 4115(e)(3) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (46
U.S.C. 3703a note) to read as follows: ``(3) No later than one year
after the date of enactment of the Coast Guard and Maritime
Transportation Act of 2004, the Secretary shall, taking into account
the recommendations contained in the report by the Marine Board of the
National Research Council entitled `Environmental Performance of Tanker
Design in Collision and Grounding' and dated 2001, establish and
publish an environmental equivalency evaluation index (including the
methodology to
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develop that index) to assess overall outflow performance due to
collisions and groundings for double hull tank vessels and alternative
hull designs.''
Environmental Equivalency Evalution Index
In accordance with the authority delegated from the Secretary, the
Coast Guard has established the Environmental Equivalency Evaluation
Index as directed. It is available on the Internet at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/mse/mse2-dh-alt-eval-index.pdf
, and in the docket.
To view documents in the docket, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time
and conduct a simple search using the docket number.
Dated: July 12, 2005.
T.H. Gilmour,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety,
Security and Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 05-14265 Filed 7-19-05; 8:45 am]
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