[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26237-26238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11636]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. DOT-MARAD-2017-0100]


Request for Comments on the Renewal of a Previously Approved 
Information Collection: War Risk Insurance, Applications and Related 
Information

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and comments. The Secretary of the U.S. 
Department of Transportation

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may provide war risk insurance adequate for the needs of the waterborne 
commerce of the United States if such insurance cannot be obtained on 
reasonable terms from qualified insurance companies operating in the 
United States. A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period 
soliciting comments on the following information collection was 
published on March 14, 2017 (Federal Register 13736, Vol. 82, No. 48).

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 6, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the Department's performance; (b) the 
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the Department to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; 
and (d) ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the 
quality of the collected information. The agency will summarize and/or 
include your comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this 
information collection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Yarrington, 202-366-1915, 
Office of Marine Insurance, Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: War Risk Insurance, Applications and Related Information.
    OMB Control Number: 2133-0011.
    Type of Request: Renewal of a Previously Approved Information 
Collection.
    Abstract: The U.S. Government's War Risk Insurance program is a 
standby emergency program for national defense and national security. 
It becomes effective upon and simultaneously with the automatic 
termination of ocean marine commercial war risk insurance policies. 
Those policies are automatically terminated upon the outbreak of war, 
whether declared or not, between any of the five great powers (United 
States of America, United Kingdom, France, People's Republic of China, 
the Russian Federation) or upon the hostile detonation of a weapon of 
war employing atomic or nuclear fission.
    The War Risk Insurance program makes it possible for applicants to 
obtain war risk insurance from the U.S. Government when such insurance 
is unavailable on reasonable terms from the commercial market. The 
program is mutually beneficial to the United States and to the ship 
owner in that it assures continued flow of essential U.S. trade and 
provides protection for the ship owner from loss by risks of war.
    Respondents: Vessel owners or charterers interested in 
participating in MARAD's war risk insurance program.
    Affected Public: Vessel owners or charterers interested in 
participating in MARAD's war risk insurance program.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 20.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 20.
    Estimated Hours per Response: 12.8.
    Annual Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 256.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.


    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.93.
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    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
    Dated: June 1, 2017.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017-11636 Filed 6-5-17; 8:45 am]
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