[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2271-2272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1184]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG-2001-11137]


Maritime Security

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the availability of the maritime 
security public workshop agenda and a new comment period closing date. 
The public workshop is to discuss security procedures, programs, and 
capabilities within marine transportation systems. The focus of the 
workshop will be on identifying possible security measures, standards, 
and responses to threats and acts of crime and terrorism.

DATES: The public workshop will be held on January 28 through 30, 2002, 
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. We may end the workshop early, if we have covered 
all of the agenda topics and if the people attending have no further 
comments. In order to allow comments on the results of this workshop, 
comments and related material must reach the Docket Management Facility 
on or before March 15, 2002, rather than the February 14, 2002, date 
originally requested in the Federal Register on December 17, 2001 (66 
FR 65020).

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held at the following location: Grand 
Hyatt Washington at Washington Center, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington 
DC, 20001, Phone 202-582-1234.
    You may submit your comments directly to the Docket Management 
Facility. To make sure that your comments and related material do not 
enter the docket [USCG-2001-11137] more than once, please submit them 
by only one of the following means:
    (1) Electronically through the Web Site for the Docket Management 
System at http://dms.dot.gov/.
    (2) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
    (3) 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.
    (4) By mail to the Docket Management Facility, (USCG-2001-11137), 
U.S. Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    The Docket Management Facility maintains the public docket for this 
notice. Comments and material received from the public, as well as 
documents mentioned in this notice as being available in the docket, 
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 notice 
in the docket on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/. Comments in the 
docket are available to the public for inspection and further comment, 
including proprietary information if submitted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this notice 
or the public workshop, write or call CDR Sue Englebert, at the 
Administrative and Coordination Division (G-M-1), 
[email protected], or at 202-267-2388. If you contacted CDR 
Rand prior to January 7, 2002 to request a presentation time during the 
workshop, you will be contacted by January 23, 2002 with your scheduled 
presentation time and location. All presentation times have been filled 
therefore; additional requests are no longer accepted. If you have 
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Dorothy 
Beard, Chief, Dockets, Department of Transportation, at 202-366-5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    We encourage you to participate in this workshop by submitting 
comments and related material. If you do so, please include your name 
and address, identify the docket number [USCG-2001-11137] and give the 
reason for each comment. You may submit your comments and material 
electronically, by fax, by delivery, or by mail to the Docket 
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit 
your comments and material by only one means. If you submit them by 
mail or 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 and material received during 
the comment period.

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Background and Purpose

    For the reasons discussed in a notice of workshop, published in the 
Federal Register on December 17, 2001 (66 FR 65020), the Coast Guard 
will conduct a public workshop to assess existing marine transportation 
systems (MTS) security standards and measures and to gather ideas on 
possible improvements. We request workshop attendees to provide 
information about all Federal, State, and local government laws, 
procedures, regulations, and standards that are either functioning or 
that are planned. We will provide copies of international standards and 
Coast Guard regulations concerning the security of MTS. We also request 
industry to provide any current and planned standards and procedures 
covering the security of vessels and facilities.
    The prior notice outlined general topics that will be focused on 
during the workshop, though it did not contain a specific agenda. 
Workshop attendees will be asked to divide into four workgroups to 
discuss the physical security and operational measures for facilities, 
vessels, and ports, as well as identification or credentialing measures 
that could be used to control access to facilities, vessels, or 
sensitive areas. Each workgroup's goal will be to develop criteria, 
measures to meet such criteria, and possible security performance 
standards for the criteria within their area of concentration. On 
Tuesday afternoon, January 29, 2002 the workgroups will summarize the 
results of their discussions in a brief presentation. Attendees will be 
provided an opportunity to comment on the impact, cost, and estimated 
value of the criteria, measures, and standards developed during this 
workshop. The workshop presentations will be included in the docket by 
February 4, 2002. The final workshop report will be placed in the 
docket by February 28, 2002. Comments on the workshop presentations 
will be accepted until March 15, 2002 as opposed to February 14, 2002, 
and should be sent to the Docket Management Facility at the address 
under ADDRESSES.
    The following is the agenda for the public workshop, and is subject 
to change:

Agenda

Monday: January 28, 2002

    8:30 a.m.: Sign-in.
    9 a.m.: Introduction and overview.
    10:15-11:30 a.m.: Morning discussion with breakout sessions to 
review current criteria, introduce criteria attendees bring, and 
develop criteria for the following:
    (1) Physical security and operational measures--Facilities
    (2) Physical security and operational measures--Vessels
    (3) Physical security and operational measures--Ports
    (4) Access Control--Credentials
    11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: Lunch break.
    1-3:30 p.m.: Afternoon discussion with breakout sessions in the 
same workgroups as above to develop a list of possible measures to meet 
the criteria.
    4-5 p.m.: Public presentations. (A program for these presentations 
will be available at the workshop.)

Tuesday: January 29, 2002

    8:30 a.m.: Sign-in.
    9-11:30 a.m.: Morning discussion with breakout sessions in the same 
workgroups as above to develop performance standards that could be used 
to evaluate the physical security and operational measure criteria.
    11:30-1 p.m.: Lunch break.
    1-3 p.m.: Workgroups present summations of their breakout sessions.
    3-4 p.m.: Open discussion of the information presented by each 
workgroup.
    4-5 p.m.: Public presentations. (A program for these presentations 
will be available at the workshop.)

Wednesday: January 30, 2002

    9-11 a.m.: Opportunity for comment and further discussion for 
workshop attendees.

    Dated: January 11, 2002.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection.
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