[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 15, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46887-46888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13391]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

49 CFR Part 389

[Docket No. MARAD-2005-22050]
RIN 2133-AB67


Determination of Availability of Coastwise-Qualified Launch 
Barges

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Proposed rule; Notice of opening of reply comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration is establishing regulations 
governing administrative determinations of availability of coastwise-
qualified launch barges to be used in the transportation and launching 
of offshore

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oil drilling or production platform jackets in specified projects. This 
rulemaking implements provisions of the Coast Guard and Maritime 
Transportation Act of 2004, which, among other things, requires the 
Secretary of Transportation (acting through the Maritime Administrator) 
to adopt procedures to determine if coastwise-qualified vessels are 
available for platform jacket transport and launching, and, if not, to 
allow the use of non-coastwise qualified foreign built vessels.
    The notice of proposed rulemaking for this action was published in 
the Federal Register on August 15, 2005 (70 FR 47771) with comments due 
by October 14, 2005. The opening comment period was extended on October 
19, 2005 (70 FR 60770) and closed on December 13, 2005.
    The Maritime Administration is hereby giving notice that we 
received and have granted a request by a commenting party to open a 
reply comment period for this rulemaking. Reply comments are responses 
to comments that were filed during the previous comment periods for 
this rulemaking.

DATES: Reply comments are due October 16, 2006.

ADDRESSES: You may submit reply comments [identified by DOT DMS Docket 
Number MARAD 2005-22050] by any of the following methods:
     Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 
submitting comments on the DOT electronic docket site.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 7th St., SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401, 
Washington, DC 20590-001.
     Hand Delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the 
Nassif Building, 400 7th St., SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and 
docket number or Regulatory Identification Number (RIN) for this 
rulemaking. Note that all comments received will be posted without 
change to http://dms.dot.gov including any personal information 
provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading below.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL-
401 on the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 7th St., SW., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal Holidays.

Privacy Act

    Anyone is able to 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 DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) or you may visit 
http://dms.dot.gov.

    By order of the Maritime Administrator.

    Dated: August 9, 2006.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
 [FR Doc. E6-13391 Filed 8-14-06; 8:45 am]
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