[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70861-70862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-23234]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[USCG-2005-23024]


International Code for the Construction & Equipment of Ships 
Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk--December 2005 Deadline for 
Manufacturers of Affected Products

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard notifies manufacturers that there is a 
December 31, 2005 deadline to supply missing safety or pollution data 
for the revised International Code for the Construction & Equipment of 
Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk, which will affect the bulk 
shipment of certain products on most international voyages.

DATES: The International Maritime Organization should receive missing 
data no later than December 31, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Missing data can be delivered to the following address: 
GESAMP/EHS, International Maritime Organization, 4 Albert Embankment, 
London SE1 7SR, United Kingdom. You may submit comments identified by 
Coast Guard docket number USCG-2005-23024 to the Docket Management 
Facility at the U.S. Department of Transportation. To avoid 
duplication, please use only one of the following methods:
    (1) Web Site: http://dms.dot.gov.
    (2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (3) Fax: 202-493-2251.
    (4) Delivery: 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call Mr. Tom Felleisen, Hazardous Materials Standards Division (G-MSO-
3), Coast Guard, telephone 202-267-0086. If you have questions on 
viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright, 
Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-493-0402.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    All comments received will be posted, without change, to http://dms.dot.gov and will include any personal information you have 
provided. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation 
(DOT) to use the Docket Management Facility. Please see DOT's ``Privacy 
Act'' paragraph below.
    Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include your 
name and address, identify the docket number for this notice (USCG-
2005-23024) and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your 
comments by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery to the Docket 
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit 
your comments 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 received during the comment period.
    Viewing comments and documents: To view comments, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time, click on ``Simple Search,'' enter the last 
five digits of the docket number for this rulemaking, and click on 
``Search.'' You may also visit the Docket Management Facility in 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.
    Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments 
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf 
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the 
Department of Transportation's Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit 
http://dms.dot.gov.

Background and Purpose

    The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Maritime Safety 
Committee adopted the revised International Code for the Construction & 
Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code) last 
year. Over 120 products were omitted from either Chapter 17 or 18 of 
the IBC Code due to missing safety and or pollution data. The 41st 
session of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of 
Marine Environmental Protection working group on the Evaluation of the 
Hazards of Harmful Substances Carried by Ships and the most recent 
session of the working group on the Evaluation of Safety and Pollution 
Hazards updated this list. IMO will exclude these products from the 
revised IBC Code unless it receives the missing data by December 31, 
2005. If these products are excluded, shippers will be unable to carry 
them in bulk after January 1, 2007 on most international voyages. 
Therefore, the manufacturers of these products should supply the 
missing safety and or pollution data to the IMO GESAMP/EHS Secretariat 
(see ADDRESSES) by December 31, 2005.
    This notice of an IMO action does not mean that the Coast Guard 
will necessarily be implementing the IMO action on all international 
shipments. Implementation of IMO actions would be the subject of a 
future rulemaking under a distinct docket.
    The affected products are:

1. Acetochlor
2. Alkaryl polyethers (C9-C20)
3. Alkenyl (C11+) amide

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4. Alkyl(C8+)amine, Alkenyl (C12+) acid ester mixture
5. Aluminium chloride (30% or less)/Hydrochloric acid (20% or less) 
solution
6. 2-(2-Aminoethoxy) ethanol
7. 2-Amino-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propanediol solution (40% or less)
8. Ammonium bisulphite solution (70% or less)
9. Ammonium thiocyanate (25% or less)/Ammonium thiosulphate (20% or 
less) solution
10. Benzyl chloride
11. N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl) oleamide
12. Brake fluid base mix: Poly(2-8)alkylene (C2-C3) glycols/
Polyalkylene (C2-C10)
13. glycols monoalkyl (C1-C4) ethers and their borate esters
14. Butene oligomer
15. Butyl stearate
16. Calcium alkyl (C9) phenol sulphide/Polyolefin phosphorosulphide 
mixture
17. Calcium long-chain alkaryl sulphonate (C11-C50)
18. Calcium long-chain alkyl phenolic amine (C8-C40)
19. Calcium nitrate/Magnesium nitrate/Potassium chloride solution
20. Calcium nitrate solutions (50% or less)
21. Camphor oil
22. Caramel solutions
23. Carbolic oil
24. Cashew nut shell oil (untreated)
25. Chlorinated paraffins (C14-C17) (with 50% chlorine or more, and 
less than 1% C13 or shorter chains)
26. Coal tar
27. Coal tar naphtha solvent
28. Coal tar pitch (molten)
29. Cobalt naphthenate in solvent naphtha
30. Coconut oil fatty acid methyl ester
31. Creosote (coal tar)
32. Creosote (wood)
33. Cresylic acid, sodium salt solution
34. Decyl acetate
35. 1,6-Dichlorohexane
36. 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, triisopropanolamine salt solution
37. 1,3-Dichloropropane
38. Diethylene glycol diethyl ether
39. Diethylene glycol phthalate
40. Diglycidyl ether of bisphenol
41. 1,4-Dihydro-9,10-dihydroxyanthracene, disodium salt solution
42. Diisononyl adipate
43. Dinonyl phthalate
44. Diphenylamine, reaction product with 2,2,4-Trimethylpentene
45. Diphenylmethane diisocyanate
46. Ditridecyl adipate
47. Ditridecyl phthalate
48. Dodecenylsuccinic acid, dipotassium salt solution
49. Dodecylamine/Tetradecylamine mixture
50. Dodecyl diphenyl ether disulphonate solution
51. Ethyl amyl ketone
52. N-Ethylbutylamine
53. Ethyl butyrate
54. Ethylene glycol methyl butyl ether
55. Ethylene-Vinyl acetate copolymer (emulsion)
56. o-Ethylphenol
57. Ethyl propionate
58. Ferric hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid, trisodium salt 
solution
59. Fish solubles (water-based fish meal extract)
60. Fluorosilicic acid (20-30%) in water solution
61. Fumaric adduct of rosin, water dispersion
62. Glycerine (83%), Dioxanedimethanol (17%) mixture
63. Glycerol polyalkoxylate
64. Icosa (oxypropane-2,3-diyl)s
65. Isopropylamine (70% or less)
66. Latex, ammonia (1% or less), inhibited
67. Latex: Carboxylated styrene-Butadiene copolymer; Styrene-Butadiene 
rubber
68. Ligninsulphonic acid, sodium salt solution
69. Long-chain alkaryl sulphonic acid (C16-C60)
70. Long-chain polyetheramine in alkyl (C2-C4) benzenes
71. Long-chain polyetheramine in aromatic solvent
72. Magnesium long-chain alkaryl sulphonate (C11-C50)
73. Methyl heptyl ketone
74. 3-Methyl-3-methoxybutyl acetate
75. Naphthenic Acids
76. Nitroethane, 1-Nitropropane (each 15% or more) mixture
77. o- or p-Nitrotoluenes
78. Nonyl acetate
79. Octyl decyl adipate
80. Oleylamine
81. Palm kernel acid oil
82. Palm oil fatty acid methyl ester
83. Pentaethylenehexamine
84. Phosphate esters, alkyl (C12-C14) amine
85. Poly(2-8)alkylene glycol monoalkyl(C1-C6) ether
86. Poly(2-8)alkylene glycol monoalkyl (C1-C6) ether acetate
87. Polyalkylene oxide polyol
88. Polybutene
89. Polyether (molecular weight 2000+)
90. Polyethylene polyamines
91. Polyglycerin, sodium salt solution (containing less than 3% sodium 
hydroxide)
92. Polyglycerol
93. Polyolefin amide alkeneamine/molybdenum oxysulphide mixture
94. Polyolefin amide alkeneamine polyol
95. Polyolefin aminoester salts (mw 2000+)
96. Poly(5+)propylene
97. Poly(tetramethylene ether) glycol (mw 600-3000)
98. Potassium chloride solution (10% or more)
99. Potassium salt of polyolefin acid
100. n-Propyl chloride
101. Propylene-Butylene copolymer
102. Propylene dimer
103. Pyrolysis gasoline
104. Rosin soap (disproportionated) solution
105. Sodium alkyl (C14-C17) sulphonates (60-65% solution)
106. Sodium aluminate solution
107. Sodium petroleum sulphonate
108. Sodium tartrates/Sodium succinates solution
109. Sulpho hydrocarbon long chain (C18+) alkylamine mixture
110. Sulphurized polyolefinamide alkene (C28-C250) amine
111. Tall oil (crude and distilled)
112. Tall oil fatty acid (resin acids less than 20%)
113. Tall oil fatty acid, barium salt
114. Tall oil soap (disproportionated) solution
115. Tallow fatty acid
116. Trimethylhexamethylenediamine (2,2,4- and 2,4,4-isomers)
117. Trimethylhexamethylene diisocyanate (2,2,4-and 2,4,4-isomers)
118. Trimethylolpropane polyethoxylate
119. Trimethyl phosphite
120. Urea/Ammonium mono- and dihydrogen phosphate/Potassium chloride 
solution
121. Urea formaldehyde resin solution
122. White spirit, low (15-20%) aromatic

    Dated: November 17, 2005.
Howard L. Hime,
Acting Director of Standards, Marine, Safety, Security, and 
Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 05-23234 Filed 11-22-05; 8:45 am]
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