[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 142 (Wednesday, July 26, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 34620-34622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15707]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Chapter I

46 CFR Chapters I and III

49 CFR Chapter IV

[Docket No. USCG-2017-0662]


Navigation Safety Advisory Council--Input To Support Regulatory 
Reform of Coast Guard Regulations--New Task

AGENCY: U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Announcement of new task assignment for the Navigation Safety 
Advisory Council (NAVSAC); teleconference meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to the Navigation 
Safety Advisory Council (NAVSAC). The U.S. Coast Guard is asking NAVSAC 
to help the agency identify existing regulations, guidance, and 
collections of information (that fall within the scope of the Council's 
charter) for possible repeal, replacement, or modification. This 
tasking is in response to the issuance of Executive Orders 13771, 
``Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs; 13777, 
``Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda;'' and 13783, ``Promoting 
Energy Independence and Economic Growth.'' The full Council is 
scheduled to meet by teleconference on August 16, 2017, to discuss this 
tasking. This teleconference will be open to the public. The U.S. Coast 
Guard will consider NAVSAC recommendations as part of the process of 
identifying regulations, guidance, and collections of information to be 
repealed, replaced, or modified pursuant to the three Executive Orders 
discussed above.

DATES: The full Council is scheduled to meet by teleconference on 
August 16, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. Please note that this 
teleconference may adjourn early if the Council has completed its 
business.

ADDRESSES: To join the teleconference or to request special 
accommodations, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section no later than 1 p.m. on August 9, 2017. The 
number of teleconference lines is limited and will be available on a 
first-come, first-served basis.
    Instructions: Submit comments on the task statement at any time, 
including orally at the teleconference, but if you want Council members 
to review your

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comments before the teleconference, please submit your comments no 
later than August 9, 2017. You must include the words ``Department of 
Homeland Security'' and the docket number for this action. Written 
comments may also be submitted using the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal at 
http://www.regulations.gov. If you encounter technical difficulties 
with comment submission, contact the individual listed in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Comments received 
will be posted without alteration at http://www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal information provided. You may review 
Regulations.gov's Privacy and Security Notice at https://www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice.
    Docket Search: For access to the docket or to read documents or 
comments related to this notice, go to http://www.regulations.gov, 
insert ``USCG-2017-0662'' in the Search box, press Enter, and then 
click on the item you wish to view.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. George Detweiler, Alternate 
Designated Federal Officer of the Navigation Safety Advisory Council, 
telephone (202) 372-1566, or email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

New Task to the Council

    The U.S. Coast Guard is issuing a new task to NAVSAC to provide 
recommendations on whether existing regulations, guidance, and 
information collections (that fall within the scope of the Council's 
charter) should be repealed, replaced, or modified. NAVSAC will then 
provide advice and recommendations on the assigned task and submit a 
final recommendation report to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Background

    On January 30, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13771, 
``Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs.'' Under that 
Executive Order, for every one new regulation issued, at least two 
prior regulations must be identified for elimination, and the cost of 
planned regulations must be prudently managed and controlled through a 
budgeting process. On February 24, 2017, the President issued Executive 
Order 13777, ``Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda.'' That Executive 
Order directs agencies to take specific steps to identify and alleviate 
unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people. On March 
28, 2017, the President issued Executive Order 13783, ``Promoting 
Energy Independence and Economic Growth.'' Executive Order 13783 
promotes the clean and safe development of our Nation's vast energy 
resources, while at the same time avoiding agency actions that 
unnecessarily encumber energy production.
    When implementing the regulatory offsets required by Executive 
Order 13771, each agency head is directed to prioritize, to the extent 
permitted by law, those regulations that the agency's Regulatory Reform 
Task Force identifies as outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective in 
accordance with Executive Order 13777. As part of this process to 
comply with all three Executive Orders, the U.S. Coast Guard is 
reaching out through multiple avenues to interested individuals to 
gather their input about what regulations, guidance, and information 
collections, they believe may need to be repealed, replaced, or 
modified. On June 8, 2017, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a general notice 
in the Federal Register requesting comments from interested individuals 
regarding their recommendations, 82 FR 26632. In addition to this 
general solicitation, the U.S. Coast Guard also wants to leverage the 
expertise of its Federal Advisory Committees and is issuing similar 
tasks to each of its Committees. A detailed discussion of each of the 
Executive orders and information on where U.S. Coast Guard regulations, 
guidance, and information collections are found is in the June 8th 
notice.

The Task

    NAVSAC is tasked to:
    Provide input to the U.S. Coast Guard on all existing regulations, 
guidance, and information collections that fall within the scope of the 
Council's charter.
    1. One or more subcommittees/working groups, as needed, will be 
established to work on this tasking in accordance with the Council 
charter and bylaws. The subcommittee(s) shall terminate upon the 
approval and submission of a final recommendation to the U.S. Coast 
Guard from the parent Council.
    2. Review regulations, guidance, and information collections and 
provide recommendations whether an existing rule, guidance, or 
information collection should be repealed, replaced or modified. If the 
Council recommends modification, please provide specific 
recommendations for how the regulation, guidance, or information 
collection should be modified. Recommendations should include an 
explanation on how and to what extent repeal, replacement or 
modification will reduce costs or burdens to industry and the extent to 
which risks to health or safety would likely increase.
    a. Identify regulations, guidance, or information collections that 
potentially impose the following types of burden on the industry:
    i. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing 
administrative burdens on the industry.
    ii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing 
burdens in the development or use of domestically produced energy 
resources. ``Burden,'' for the purposes of compliance with Executive 
Order 13783, means ``to unnecessarily obstruct, delay, curtail, or 
otherwise impose significant costs on the siting, permitting, 
production, utilization, transmission, or delivery of energy 
resources.''
    b. Identify regulations, guidance, or information collections that 
potentially impose the following types of costs on the industry:
    i. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing costs 
that are outdated (such as due to technological advancement), or are no 
longer necessary.
    ii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing 
costs which are no longer enforced as written or which are ineffective.
    iii. Regulations, guidance, or information collections imposing 
costs tied to reporting or recordkeeping requirements that impose 
burdens that exceed benefits. Explain why the reporting or 
recordkeeping requirement is overly burdensome, unnecessary, or how it 
could be modified.
    c. Identify regulations, guidance, and information collections that 
the Council believes have led to the elimination of jobs or inhibits 
job creation within a particular industry.
    3. All regulations, guidance, and information collections, or parts 
thereof, recommended by the Council should be described in sufficient 
detail (by section, paragraph, sentence, clause, etc.) so that it can 
readily be identified. Data (quantitative or qualitative) should be 
provided to support and illustrate the impact, cost, or burden, as 
applicable, for each recommendation. If the data is not readily 
available, the Council should include information as to how such 
information can be obtained either by the Council or directly by the 
Coast Guard.

Public Participation

    All meetings associated with this tasking, both full Council 
meetings and subcommittee/working groups, are open to the public. A 
public oral comment period will be held during the August

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16, 2017, teleconference. Public comments or questions will be taken at 
the discretion of the Designated Federal Officer; commenters are 
requested to limit their comments to 3 minutes. Please contact the 
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, to 
register as a commenter. Subcommittee meetings held in association with 
this tasking will be announced as they are scheduled through notices 
posted to http://homeport.uscg.mil/navsac and uploaded as supporting 
documents in the electronic docket for this action, [USCG-2017-0662], 
at Regulations.gov.

Michael D. Emerson,
Director, Marine Transportation Systems.
[FR Doc. 2017-15707 Filed 7-25-17; 8:45 am]
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