[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 36361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17403]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG-2001-9989]


The Coast Guard's Policy of Consultation and Coordination With 
Indian Tribal Governments Under Executive Order 13175

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is requesting general information that will 
better allow us to implement Executive Order 13175, Consultation and 
Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments. This Executive Order 
directs Federal agencies to consult with Indian and Alaska Native 
tribal governments in the development of regulations that have a 
substantial direct effect on one or more Indian or Alaska Native 
tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and those 
tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between 
the Federal Government and those tribes. The Coast Guard has queried 
its internal database and determined its regulations may impact a total 
of 13 tribal governments. These tribal governments own fishing vessels 
and passenger vessels. We suspect that there may be more tribal 
governments impacted by Coast Guard regulations than our database 
revealed. In order to better carry out our responsibilities under this 
Executive Order, we need your help in identifying tribes that may be 
affected by Coast Guard rulemakings, the officials of those tribes, and 
the procedures needed to ensure meaningful and timely input by tribal 
officials. Depending on the information received, we may modify our 
approach and/or policy used to carry out the intent of the Executive 
Order when we promulgate future rulemakings.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before October 9, 2001.

ADDRESSES: To make sure your comments and related material are not 
entered in the docket more than once, please submit them by only one of 
the following means:
    (1) By mail to the Docket Management Facility, (USCG-2001-9989) 
U.S. Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (2) By delivery to room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif 
Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone 
number is 202-366-9329.
    (3) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
    (4) By electronic means through the Web Site for the Docket 
Management System at http://dms.dot.gov.
    The Docket Management Facility maintains the public docket for this 
notice. Comments and material received from the public will become part 
of this docket and will be available for inspection or copying at room 
PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street 
SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays. You may also find this docket on the Internet 
at http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on this notice, call 
Karen Adams, Regulatory Coordinator, Office of Standards Development 
(G-MSR), Coast Guard, telephone 202-267-6819. For questions on viewing 
or submitting material to the docket, call Dorothy Beard, Chief, 
Dockets, Department of Transportation, telephone 202-366-5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Discussion

    Executive Order 13175, Consultation and Coordination with Indian 
Tribal Governments, is intended (1) To establish regular and meaningful 
consultation and collaboration with tribal officials in the development 
of Federal regulations that have tribal implications, (2) to strengthen 
the United States government-to-government relationships with Indian 
and Alaska Native tribes, and (3) to reduce the imposition of unfunded 
mandates upon those tribes. A regulation has ``tribal implications'' if 
it has a substantial direct effect on one or more Indian or Alaska 
Native tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and 
those tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities 
between the Federal Government and those tribes. In order to better 
carry out our responsibilities under this Executive Order, we need your 
help in identifying tribes that may be affected by Coast Guard 
rulemakings, the officials of those tribes, and the procedures needed 
to ensure meaningful and timely input by tribal officials. We invite 
comments on how Coast Guard rulemakings may impact tribes and tribal 
governments, even if those impacts may not constitute ``tribal 
implications'' under the Executive Order. For example, there may be 
tribal governments in Alaska that own petroleum facilities, which are 
impacted by Coast Guard regulations. Also, there may be more than the 
currently identified 13 tribal governments that own fishing vessels and 
passenger vessels. A copy of Executive Order 13175 is available in the 
docket on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov.

Request for Comments

    Please explain your views clearly and provide copies of any 
information used to support your views. If you submit comments and 
related material, please include your name and address, identify the 
docket number for this notice (USCG-2001-9989), and give the reason for 
each comment. You may submit your comments and material by mail, hand 
delivery, fax, or electronic means to the Docket Management Facility as 
indicated under ADDRESSES. Please submit your comments and material by 
only one means. If you submit them by mail or hand delivery, submit 
them in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable 
for copying and electronic filing. If you submit them by mail and would 
like to know that they reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped, 
self-addressed postcard or envelope. We will consider all comments 
received during the comment period.

    Dated: July 5, 2001.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection.
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