[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 111 (Thursday, June 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 31343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14773]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary
[OST-1999-5631]


The Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions of the U.S. 
Coast Guard

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Notice reopening public comment period.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that we are reopening until July 15, 
1999, the period for submitting comments on the roles and missions of 
the U.S. Coast Guard. The original comment period ended on June 1, 
1999.

DATES: Comments are now due July 15, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Your written comments must be signed and refer to docket 
number OST-199-5631. Send them to the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets, 
Room PL-401, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001. All 
comments received will be available for public examination at this 
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., ET. Monday through Friday, except 
Federal Holidays. Persons who wish notification of the receipt of their 
comments must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or postcard.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Crowley, Jr., Interagency Task 
Force on the Roles and Missions of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1111 Jefferson 
Davis Highway, Suite 502 West Tower, Arlington, VA 22302, telephone 
(703) 416-0192, facsimile (703) 416-6793.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The President has directed an independent 
study on the appropriate roles and missions of the U.S. Coast Guard 
through year 2020. The Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions 
of the U.S. Coast Guard will seek to identify and distinguish which 
Coast Guard roles, missions, and functions: (a) Might be added or 
enhanced; (b) might be maintained at current levels of performance; or 
(c) might be reduced or eliminated. The Task Force will also consider 
whether private organizations, public authorities, local or State 
governments, or other federal agencies might better perform current 
Coast Guard roles, missions, and functions. The Task Force will also 
consider the impact on Coast Guard roles, missions, and functions of 
future prospects in the areas of technology, demographics, the law of 
the sea, national security, etc.
    On May 10, 1999, the Office of the Secretary of Transportation 
published a notice seeking public comment on the roles and missions of 
the U.S. Coast Guard to help the Task Force determine whether those 
roles and missions are still appropriate. The Coast Guard has received 
several requests for more time to comment.
    This notice reopens the comment period until July 15, 1999, to 
provide the public with additional time to review and comment on the 
roles and missions of the U.S. Coast Guard. It should not disadvantage 
any person, and will give the Task Force the benefit of additional 
informed comments.

    Issued in Washington, DC on June 3, 1999.
Nancy McFadden,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 99-14773 Filed 6-9-99; 8:45 am]
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