[Federal Register: September 19, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 181)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 54768-54769]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
46 CFR Parts 1, 5, 10, 12 and 13
[USCG-2006-25535]
RIN 1625-ZA09
Mariner Licensing and Documentation Program Restructuring and
Centralization; Correction
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Technical amendment; correction.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is correcting a technical amendment that
appeared in the Federal Register on August 21, 2006. That technical
amendment authorizes the Commanding Officer, National Maritime Center
to perform certain mariner credentialing functions in addition to
Officers in Charge, Marine Inspection, who currently perform those
functions. At the end of a transitional period, most credentialing
functions will be consolidated at a centralized location. The amendment
also makes technical changes to the mariner credentialing appellate
process. The technical amendment is organizational in nature and will
have no substantive effect on the regulated public.
DATES: Effective September 20, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this rule,
call Gerald Miante, Project Manager, Maritime Personnel Qualifications
Division (G-PSO-1), U.S. Coast Guard, telephone 202-372-1407. If you
have questions on viewing the docket, call Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard is correcting a technical amendment that appeared
in the Federal Register on August 21, 2006 (71 FR 48480). That
technical amendment authorizes the Commanding Officer, National
Maritime Center to perform certain mariner credentialing functions in
addition to Officers in Charge, Marine Inspection, who currently
perform those functions. At the end of a transitional period, most
credentialing functions will be consolidated at a centralized location.
The amendment also makes technical changes to the mariner credentialing
appellate process. The technical amendment is organizational in nature
and will have no substantive effect on the regulated public.
This correction adds a word in the preamble, and adds two words and
removes a word in three different places in the regulatory text.
In FR Doc. E6-13781 the Federal Register of Monday, August 21,
2006, the following corrections are made:
1. On page 48481, in the first column, the first full sentence is
corrected to read ``We expect the economic impact of this rule to be so
minimal that a full Regulatory evaluation is not necessary.''
Sec. 1.01-15 [Corrected]
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2. On page 48482, in the first column, the first sentence of Sec.
1.01-15 paragraph (c) is corrected to read as follows: ``The Commanding
Officer of the National Maritime Center has been designated and
delegated to give direction to Coast Guard activities relating to
marine safety functions consisting of the licensing, credentialing,
certificating, shipment and discharge of seamen; referring to the
processing Regional Examination Center (REC) or cognizant OCMI
violations of law, negligence, misconduct, unskillfulness, incompetence
or misbehavior of persons applying for or holding merchant mariner's
documents, licenses, certificates or credentials issued by the Coast
Guard; suspension or withdrawal of course approvals; and recommending
possible suspension or revocation under 46 U.S.C. Chapter 77 of
licenses, credentials, certificates and merchant mariner's documents.''
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3. On page 48482, in the first column, the last sentence of Sec. 1.01-
15 paragraph (c) is corrected to read as follows: ``A list of Regional
Examination Center
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locations is available through the Coast Guard Web site at http://www.uscg.mil.
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Sec. 10.105 [Corrected]
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4. On page 48482, in the third column, the last sentence of Sec.
10.105 paragraph (a) is corrected to read as follows: ``A list of
Regional Examination Center locations is available through the Coast
Guard Web site at http://www.uscg.mil.''
Dated: September 12, 2006.
Stefan G. Venckus,
Chief, Office of Regulations and Administrative Law, United States
Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. E6-15493 Filed 9-18-06; 8:45 am]
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