[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 245 (Friday, December 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 78037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32142]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG-2002-13978]


Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of minimum random drug testing rate.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2003 minimum random 
drug testing rate at 50 percent of covered crewmembers. An evaluation 
of the 2001 Management Information System (MIS) data collection forms 
submitted by marine employers determined that random drug testing on 
covered crewmembers for the calendar year 2001 resulted in positive 
test results 1.63 percent of the time. Based on this percentage, we 
will maintain the minimum random drug testing rate at 50 percent of 
covered crewmembers for the calendar year 2003.

DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1, 
2003 through December 31, 2003. You must submit your 2002 MIS reports 
no later than March 15, 2003.

ADDRESSES: You must mail your annual MIS report to Commandant (G-MOA), 
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street SW., Room 2404, 
Washington, DC 20593-0001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice, 
please contact Mr. Robert C. Schoening, Drug and Alcohol Program 
Manager, Office of Investigations and Analysis (G-MOA), U.S. Coast 
Guard Headquarters, telephone 202-267-0684. If you have questions on 
viewing the docket, call Dorothy Beard, Chief, Dockets, Department of 
Transportation, telephone 202-366-5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 46 CFR 16.230, the Coast Guard 
requires marine employers to establish random drug testing programs for 
covered crewmembers on inspected and uninspected vessels. All marine 
employers are required to collect and maintain a record of drug testing 
program data for each calendar year, January 1 through December 31. You 
must submit this data by 15 March of the following year to the Coast 
Guard in an annual MIS report (Form CG-5573 found in Appendix B of 46 
CFR 16).
    You may either submit your own MIS report or have a consortium or 
other employer representative submit the data in a consolidated MIS 
report. The chemical drug testing data is essential to analyze our 
current approach for deterring and detecting illegal drug abuse in the 
maritime industry.
    Since 2001 MIS data indicates that the positive random testing rate 
is greater than one percent industry-wide (1.63 percent), the Coast 
Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate is set at 50 
percent of covered employees for the period of January 1, 2003 through 
December 31, 2003 in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e). Each year we 
will publish a notice reporting the results of the previous calendar 
year's MIS data, and the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug 
testing for the next calendar year.

    Dated: December 13, 2002.
L.L. Hereth,
Acting Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and 
Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 02-32142 Filed 12-19-02; 8:45 am]
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