[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29930-29931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13437]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD-2019-0106]


Request for Comments of a Previously Approved Information 
Collection

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.

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. A Federal Register Notice with a 
60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following information 
collection was published on March 1, 2019.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 25, 2019.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deveeda Midgette, Office of Sealift 
Support, Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-2354.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Request for Transfer of Ownership, Registry, and Flag, or 
Charter, Lease, or Mortgage of U.S.-Citizen Owned Documented Vessels.
    OMB Control Number: 2133-0006.
    Type of Request: Renewal of a Previously Approved Information 
Collection.
    Background: This collection provides information necessary for 
MARAD to approve the sale, transfer, charter, lease, or mortgage of 
U.S. documented vessels to non-citizens, or the transfer of such 
vessels to foreign registry and flag, or the transfer of foreign flag 
vessels by their owners as required by various contractual 
requirements. The information will enable MARAD to determine whether 
the vessel proposed for transfer will initially require retention under 
the U.S.-flag statutory regulations.
    Respondents: Vessel owners who have applied for foreign transfer of 
U.S.-flag vessels.
    Affected Public: Business or other for Profit.
    Total Estimated Number of Responses: 85.
    Frequency of Collection: Annually.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 170.
    Public Comments Invited: Comments are invited on: Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the Department, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the 
Department's estimate of the burden of the proposed information 
collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 
35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.93.)
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    Dated: June 20, 2019.


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    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-13437 Filed 6-24-19; 8:45 am]
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