[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 170 (Thursday, September 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45648-45649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-21262]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

United States Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2009-0761]


Cook Inlet Regional Citizen's Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of Recertification.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has recertified the Cook Inlet Regional 
Citizen's Advisory Council for the period covering September 1, 2009, 
through August 31, 2010. Under the Oil Terminal and Oil Tanker 
Environmental Oversight Act of 1990, the Coast Guard may certify on an 
annual basis an alternative voluntary advisory group in lieu of a 
regional citizens' advisory council for Cook Inlet, Alaska. This 
advisory group monitors the activities of terminal facilities and crude 
oil tankers under the Cook Inlet Program established by the statute.

DATES: The Cook Inlet Regional Citizen's Advisory Council is certified 
through August 31, 2010.

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of the recertification letter by 
writing to Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard District (dpi), P.O. Box 
25517, Juneau, AK 99802-5517; or by calling 907-463-2821.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant-Commander Ken Phillips, 
Seventeenth Coast Guard District (dpi), telephone 907-463-2821.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Purpose

    On September 1, 2008, the Coast Guard recertified the Cook Inlet 
Regional Citizen's Advisory Council through August 31, 2009 (73 FR 
57127). Under the Oil Terminal and Oil Tanker Environmental Oversight 
Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2732), the Coast Guard may certify, on an annual 
basis, an alternative voluntary advisory group in lieu of a regional 
citizens' advisory council for Cook Inlet, Alaska. This advisory group 
monitors the activities of terminal facilities and crude oil tankers 
under the Cook Inlet Program established by Congress, 33 U.S.C. 2732 
(b).
    On September 16, 2002, the Coast Guard published a notice of policy 
on revised recertification procedures for alternative voluntary 
advisory groups in lieu of councils at Cook Inlet, Alaska (67 FR 
58440). This revised policy indicated that Cook Inlet Regional 
Citizen's Advisory Council recertification in 2009 need only submit a 
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application and public comments would not be solicited prior to that 
recertification.

    Dated: August 14, 2009.
Christopher C. Colvin,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard 
District.
[FR Doc. E9-21262 Filed 9-2-09; 8:45 am]
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