[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 248 (Friday, December 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71439-71440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27896]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2009-0973]


Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers for 2020

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of minimum random drug testing rate.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2020 minimum random 
drug testing rate at 50 percent of covered crewmembers.

DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1, 
2020 through December 31, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice, 
please contact Mr. Patrick Mannion, Drug and Alcohol Prevention and 
Investigation Program Manager, Office of Investigations and Analysis 
(CG-INV), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, via email; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard requires marine employers to 
establish random drug testing programs for covered crewmembers in 
accordance with 46 CFR 16.230. Marine employers are required by 46 CFR 
16.500 to collect and maintain a record of drug testing data for each 
calendar year, and submit this data to the Coast Guard in a Management 
Information System (MIS) Report by March 15 of the following year.
    Each year, the Coast Guard will publish a notice reporting the 
results of random drug testing for the previous calendar year's MIS 
data and the required minimum annual percentage rate for random drug 
testing for the next calendar year. The purpose of setting a minimum 
random drug testing rate is to promote maritime safety by establishing 
an effective deterrent to drug misuse within the maritime workforce. 
Intoxicated operations poses a serious threat to life, property and the 
environment in the maritime commons. As such, the minimum random drug 
testing rate is intended to deter and detect illegal drug misuse in the 
maritime industry.
    The Coast Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate 
for calendar year 2020 is 50 percent. The Coast Guard continues a 50 
percent minimum random drug testing rate for 2020 as a result of MIS 
data for the most recent reporting year which indicated that the 
positive rate continues to be greater than one percent. 46 CFR 
16.230(f)(2) requires the Commandant to

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set the minimum random drug testing rate at 50 percent when the 
positivity rate for drug use is greater than 1 percent.
    For 2020, the minimum random drug testing rate will be 50 percent 
of covered employees for the period of January 1, 2020 through December 
31, 2020 in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e).

    Dated: December 19, 2019.
David C. Barata,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Inspections and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2019-27896 Filed 12-26-19; 8:45 am]
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