[Federal Register: February 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 37)]
[Notices]
[Page 10042-10043]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2007-0142]
Notification of the Imposition of Conditions of Entry for Certain
Vessels Arriving to the United States; Indonesia
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces that effective anti-terrorism
measures are not in place in certain ports of Indonesia and that it
will impose conditions of entry on vessels arriving from that country.
DATES: The policy announced in this notice will become effective March
10, 2008.
ADDRESSES: This notice will be available for inspection and copying at
the Docket Management Facility at the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Room W12-140 on the Ground Floor of the West Building,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
call Mr. Michael Brown, International Port Security Evaluation
Division, Coast Guard, telephone 202-372-1081. If you have questions on
viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright,
Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
Section 70110 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002
(Pub. L. 107-295, Nov. 25, 2002) provides that the Secretary of
Homeland Security may impose conditions of entry on vessels requesting
entry into the United States arriving from ports that are not
maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. The Coast Guard has been
delegated the authority by the Secretary to carry out the provisions of
this section. The Docket contains previous notices imposing or removing
conditions of entry on vessels arriving from certain countries and
those conditions of entry and the countries they pertain to remain in
effect unless modified by this notice.
The Coast Guard has determined that ports in Indonesia, with
certain exceptions, are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism
measures. Accordingly, effective March 10, 2008, Coast Guard will
impose the following conditions of entry on vessels that visited ports
in Indonesia with the exception of PT Terminal Petikemas Surabaya,
Banjarmasin Port, PT Pertamina Unit Pemasaran III Jakarta, Pertamina
Unit Pengolahan V Balikpapan, Senipah Terminal Total E&P Indonesia
Balikpapan, Caltex Oil Terminal Dumai, Pelindo II Conventional Terminal
Jakarta, Jakarta International Container Terminal, PT Pupuk Kaltim
Bontang, PT Badak Bontang, PT Indominco Mandiri Bontang, Pertamina Unit
Pengolahan II Dumai, PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I Cabang Dumai, Semarang
International Container Terminal, Belawan Multi-Purpose Terminal and PT
Multimas Nabati Asahan during their last five port calls. Vessels must:
Implement measures per the ship's security plan equivalent
to Security Level 2;
Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded and
that the guards have total visibility of the exterior (both landside
and waterside) of the ship while the ship is in an Indonesian port
other than those specified above. Guards may be provided by the ship's
crew, however additional crewmembers should be placed on the ship if
necessary to ensure that limits on maximum hours of work are not
exceeded and/or minimum hours of rest are met, or provided by outside
security forces approved by the ship's master and Company Security
Officer;
Attempt to execute a Declaration of Security;
Log all security actions in the ship's log;
Report actions taken to the cognizant U.S. Coast Guard
Captain of
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the Port prior to arrival into U.S. waters; and
Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded by
armed, private security guards and that they have total visibility of
the exterior (both landside and waterside) of the ship while in U.S.
ports. The number and position of the guards has to be acceptable to
the cognizant Coast Guard Captain of the Port prior to the vessel's
arrival.
With this notice, the current list of countries not maintaining
effective anti-terrorism measures is as follows: Indonesia, Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Mauritania.
Dated: February 18, 2008.
Rear Admiral David Pekoske,
USCG Assistant Commandant For Operations.
[FR Doc. 08-842 Filed 2-21-08; 10:57 am]
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