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[Federal Register: August 4, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army

 

Request for Nominations to the Inland Waterways Users Board

AGENCY: Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99-862 established the inland 
Waterways Users Board. The Board is an independent Federal advisory 
committee. Its eleven members are appointed by the Secretary of the 
Army. This notice-is to solicit nominations for five appointments or 
reappointments to two-year terms that will begin January 1, 1995.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 4, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), 
Department of the Army, ATTN: Inland Waterways Users Board Nominations 
Committee, Washington, DC 20310-0103.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Mr. John Zirschky, Acting Assistant 
Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), (703) 697-4671.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The selection, service and appointment of 
board members are covered by provisions of Section 302 of Public Law 
99-662. The substance of those provisions is as follows: Selection. 
Members are to be selected from the spectrum of commercial carriers and 
shippers using the inland and intracoastal waterways, to represent 
geographical regions and to be representative of waterway commerce as 
determined by commodity ton-mile statistics. Service. The Board is 
required to meet at least semi-annually to develop and make 
recommendations to the Secretary of the Army on waterways construction 
and rehabilitation priorities and spending levels for commercial 
navigation improvements, and report its recommendations annually to the 
Secretary and the Congress. Appointment. The operation of the Board and 
appointment of its members are subject to the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Public Law 92-463 as amended) and Departmental 
implementing regulations. Members serve without compensation, but their 
expenses due to Board activities are reimbursable.
    The considerations specified in Section 302 for the selection of 
the Board members, and certain terms used therein, have been 
interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise clarified as follows: Carriers 
and Shippers. The law uses the terms ``primary users and shippers.'' 
Primary users has been interpreted to mean the providers of 
transportation services on inland waterways such as barge or towboat 
operators. Shippers has been interpreted to mean the purchasers of such 
services for the movement of commodities they own or control. 
Individuals are appointed to the Board, but the must be either a 
carrier or a shipper, or represent a firm that is a carrier or shipper. 
For that purposes a trade or regional association is neither a shipper 
or primary user. Geographical Representation. The law specifies 
``various'' regions. For the purpose of selecting Board members, the 
waterways subjected to fuel taxes and described in Public Law 95-502, 
as amended, have been aggregated into six regions. These are: (1) the 
Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries above the mouth of the 
Ohio; (2) the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries below the 
mouth of the Ohio and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio River and its 
tributaries; (4) the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and Texas; 
(5) the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway east of New Orleans and associated 
fuel-taxed waterways east of New Orleans and associated fuel-taxed 
waterways including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, plus the Atlantic 
Intracoastal Waterway below Norfolk; and (6) the Columbia-Snake River 
System and Upper Willamette. The intent is that each region shall be 
represented by at least one board member, with that representation 
determined by the regional concentration of the individual's traffic on 
the waterways. Commodity Representation. Waterway commerce has been 
aggregated into six commodity categories based on ``inland'' ton-miles 
shown in Waterborne Commerce of the United States. In rank order they 
are: (1) Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and Coke; (3) Petroleum, 
Crude and Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and Products; (5) Chemicals and 
Allied Products; and (6) All other. A considerable in the selection of 
Board members will be, that the commodities carried or shipped by those 
individuals or their firms will be reasonably representative of the 
above commodity categories.
    Reflecting preceding selection criteria, the present representation 
by Board members is as follows:
    The five members whose terms expire December 31, 1994, include one 
shipper representative representing the Upper Mississippi River region 
(Region 1) and farm and food products, ethanol and coal; one shipper 
representative representing the Lower Mississippi River region (Region 
2), and farm and food products; one carrier representative representing 
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and Texas (Region 4), and 
petroleum and petroleum products; one carrier representative 
representing the Ohio River region (Region 3), and coal and coke, 
minerals, and metals, petroleum products, farm and food products and 
chemicals; and, one carrier representative representing the Columbia-
Snake River system and Upper Willamette (Region 6), and farm and food 
products, petroleum products, chemicals, containers, and forest 
products. The members representing Regions 2, 3 and 6 are eligible for 
reappointment.
    The six members whose terms expire December 31, 1995, include three 
shipper representatives representing (1) the Lower Mississippi River 
(Region 2), and farm and food products, (2) the Ohio River (Region3), 
and coal, and (3) the East Gulf region (Region 5), and coal; two 
carrier representatives representing the Ohio River region (Region 3), 
and farm and food products, coal, petroleum, chemicals, minerals and 
metals; and one shipper/carrier representative representing the Ohio 
River region (Region 3), and coal.
    Nominations to replace members whose terms expire December 31, 
1994, may be made by individuals, firms, or associations. Nominations 
should state the region to be represented and whether the nominee is to 
represent carriers or shippers. Information should be provided on the 
nominee's personal qualifications and the commercial operations of the 
carrier and/or shipper with whom the nominee is associated. The latter 
information should show the actual or estimated ton-miles of 
commodities carried or shipped on inland waterways in a recent year (or 
years) using the waterway regions and commodity categories previously 
listed.
    Nomations received in response to last year's Federal Register 
notice published August 9, 1993, have been retained for consideration 
for appointment along with nominations received in response to this 
Federal Register notice. Renomination is not required but may be 
desirable.

Deadline for Nominations: All nominations must be received at the 
address shown above no later than August 29, 1994.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-19038 Filed 8-3-94; 8:45 am]
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