[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 18, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 64807-64808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27330]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
46 CFR Part 10
[Docket No. USCG-2018-0041]
Draft Merchant Mariner Medical Manual
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability, extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending, for 30 days, the period for
submitting public comments on the notice of availability of the Draft
Merchant Mariner Medical Manual. The extension responds to requests
made by the public.
DATES: The comment period for the Notice of availability published on
November 13, 2018 (83 FR 56272) is extended. Comments must be submitted
to the online docket via http://www.regulations.gov, or reach the
Docket Management Facility, on or before February 13, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2018-0041 using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. See the ``Public Participation and Request for
Comments'' portion of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for further
instructions on submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document
call or email Adrienne Buggs, M.D., United States Coast Guard, Office
of Merchant Mariner Credentialing; telephone: 202-372-2357, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation and Comments
We encourage you to submit comments (or related material) on the
draft Merchant Mariner Medical Manual. We will consider all submissions
and may adjust our final action based on your comments. If you submit a
comment, please include the docket number for this notice, indicate the
specific section of the document to which each comment applies, and
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provide a reason for each suggestion or recommendation.
We encourage you to submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be
submitted using http://www.regulations.gov, contact the person in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for alternate
instructions. Documents mentioned in this notice, and all public
comments, will be posted in our online docket at http://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following that website's
instructions. Additionally, if you go to the online docket and sign up
for email alerts, you will be notified when comments are posted or the
Coast Guard publishes any additional documents related to this notice
of availability.
We accept anonymous comments. All comments received will be posted
without change to http://www.regulations.gov and will include any
personal information you have provided. For more about privacy and the
docket, you may review a Privacy Act notice regarding the Federal
Docket Management System in the March 24, 2005, issue of the Federal
Register (70 FR 15086).
Background and Discussion of Draft Manual
We issued a Notice of Availability of the Draft Merchant Mariner
Medical Manual on November 13, 2018 (83 FR 56272). We received requests
from commenters asking for additional time for the comment period. We
have decided to grant the extension to provide a greater opportunity
for the public to review and provide their comments. With this
extension, the total length of the public comment period will now be 90
days.
This notice is issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a), 46
U.S.C. 7101, and 46 U.S.C. 7302.
Dated: December 12, 2018.
J.G. Lantz,
Director, Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 2018-27330 Filed 12-17-18; 8:45 am]
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