[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR135.215]

[Page 65-66]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 135--OFFSHORE OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart C--Financial Responsibility for Offshore Facilities
 
Sec. 135.215  Certification.

    (a) Applicants shall:
    (1) If the facility is in existence before September 17, 1979, apply 
for a Certificate of Financial Responsibility before September 17, 1979.
    (2) If the offshore facility is not in existence on September 17, 
1979, apply for a Certificate of Financial Responsibility at least 45 
days before placing the offshore facility into operation or coverage 
becomes effective.
    (3) If submitting an application to include an additional facility 
under previously established evidence of financial responsibility, apply 
for a Certificate of Financial Responsibility as early as possible 
before the anticipated date of desired coverage.
    (b) Each application for a Certificate of Financial Responsibility 
must be made on a Coast Guard prescribed Application for Certificate of 
Financial Responsibility form, available from the Fund Administrator or 
any Coast Guard District Office. This form must be submitted for each 
facility; however, if evidence of financial responsibility has been 
previously established in an amount sufficient to meet Sec. 135.203 (a), 
no additional evidence need be submitted with the application.
    (c) Each application form submitted under this section must be 
signed by the applicant. A written statement proving authority to sign 
must also be submitted where the signer is not disclosed as an 
individual (sole proprietor) applicant, a partner in a partnership 
applicant, or a director or other officer of a corporate applicant.
    (d) Financial data or other information submitted under this section 
that is proprietary in nature, or constitutes a trade secret, must be 
clearly designated as such to insure confidential treatment by the Fund 
Administrator, under 5 U.S.C. 552, the Freedom of Information Act, which 
provides for exemption from disclosure of trade secret data.
    (e) If any of the information submitted for certification is 
determined

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by the Fund Administrator to be insufficient the Fund Administrator may 
require additional information before final consideration of the 
application.
    (f) Certificates, as issued, are to be considered property of the 
U.S. Government, are not to be altered in any manner, and must be 
surrendered on demand when revoked in accordance with Sec. 135.223 of 
this subpart.
    (g) Applicants shall obtain a Certificate of Financial 
Responsibility for each facility.