[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 123 (Monday, June 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 37402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15743]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD 2011-0082]


Application of Cargo Preference Requirements To Maritime Loan 
Guarantee Program

AGENCY: Maritime Administration (MARAD), Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice clarifies MARAD's position on the application of 
cargo preference requirements under 46 U.S.C. 55305 to its shipyard and 
vessel financing guarantees.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on or before July 27, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver comments to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Dockets Management Facility, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, or submit electronically at 
http://www.regulations.gov or fax comments to (202) 493-2251. All 
comments should include the docket number that appears in the heading 
of this document. All comments received will be available for 
examination and copying at the above address from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 
E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Those desiring 
notification or receipt of comments must include a self-addressed, 
stamped postcard or you may print the acknowledgment page that appears 
after submitting comments electronically. You may review DOT's complete 
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 
2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, Page 19477-78), or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Murray A. Bloom, Office of Chief 
Counsel, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-366-5164; or e-mail 
[email protected]. Copies of this notice may also be obtained from 
that office. An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded from 
the Federal Register's home page at: http://www.archives.gov and the 
Government Printing Office's database at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MARAD is clarifying its application of cargo 
preference requirements under 46 U.S.C. 55305 to the shipyard and 
vessel financing guarantees it issues pursuant to the Maritime Loan 
Guarantee Program under 46 U.S.C. Chapter 537. MARAD's existing 
regulations, at 46 CFR 381.7, apply cargo preference requirements to 
Federal grant, guarantee, loan and advance of funds agreements 
generally. This notice provides advice on regulatory compliance 
applicable solely to the Maritime Loan Guarantee Program. As part of 
MARAD's review of the Actual Cost of a project, it requests the 
applicant or shipyard to provide copies of the original, freighted, 
stamped-``onboard'' bills of lading for the shipment of any foreign 
component items submitted for inclusion as part of the Actual Cost. 
MARAD intends to review all such bills of lading to verify that at 
least 50 percent of all foreign component items were shipped via U.S.-
flagged vessels. In the event that an impermissible amount of cargo was 
shipped on foreign-flagged vessels, MARAD interprets 46 U.S.C. 
55305(d)(2)(B) to authorize it to require the applicant or its 
contractors to move whatever amount of gross tons of cargo, not 
otherwise subject to cargo preference requirements, that are necessary 
to generate an equivalent amount of ocean freight tonnage on U.S.-flag 
vessels within a specified time period.

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

    Dated: June 16, 2011.
Christine Gurland,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-15743 Filed 6-24-11; 8:45 am]
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