[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 148 (Friday, July 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46141-46142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-16652]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2020-0041]


National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee; Vacancy

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

ACTION: Request for applications; Re-solicitation for members 
credentialed with ratings.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is re-soliciting applications from persons 
interested in membership on the National Merchant Marine Personnel 
Advisory Committee (Committee). This recently established Committee 
will advise the Secretary of the Department

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of Homeland Security on matters relating to personnel in the United 
States merchant marine, including the training, qualifications, 
certification, documentation, and fitness of mariners. Please read the 
notice for description of Committee positions we are seeking to fill.

DATES: Your completed application should reach the Coast Guard on or 
before August 14, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Applicants should send a cover letter expressing interest in 
an appointment to the Committee and a resume detailing their 
experience. We will not accept a biography.
    Applications should be submitted: via the following method:
     By Email: [email protected]. Subject Line: N-MERPAC 
(preferred)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Megan Johns Henry, Alternate 
Designated Federal Officer of the Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory 
Committee; Telephone 202-372-1255; or Email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 15, 2020, the Coast Guard published a 
request in the Federal Register (85 FR 29467) for applications for 
membership in the National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory 
Committee. Due to a lack of applications received for the membership 
positions representing credentialed ratings, the Coast Guard is re-
soliciting applications from persons interested in membership on the 
National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee. Applicants who 
responded to the initial notice do not need to reapply.
    The National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee is a 
Federal advisory committee. It will operate under the provisions of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. Appendix, and the 
administrative provisions in Section 601 of the Frank LoBiondo Coast 
Guard Authorization Act of 2018 (specifically, 46 U.S.C. 15109).
    The Committee was established on December 4, 2019, by the Frank 
LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018, which added section 
15103, National Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee, to Title 
46 of the U.S. Code. The Committee will advise the Secretary of 
Homeland Security on matters relating to personnel in the United States 
merchant marine, including the training, qualifications, certification, 
documentation, and fitness of mariners.
    The Committee is required to meet at least once a year in 
accordance with 46 U.S.C. 15109(a). We expect the Committee to meet at 
least twice a year, but it may meet more frequently. The meetings are 
generally held in cities that have high concentrations of maritime 
personnel and related marine industry businesses.
    All members serve at their own expense and receive no salary or 
other compensation from the Federal Government. Members may be 
reimbursed, however, for travel and per diem in accordance with Federal 
Travel Regulations.
    Under provisions in 46 U.S.C. 15109(f)(6), if you are appointed as 
a member of the Committee, your membership term will expire on December 
31 of the third full year after the effective date of your appointment. 
The Secretary may require an individual to have passed an appropriate 
security background examination before appointment to the Committee, 46 
U.S.C. 15109(f)(4).
    In this solicitation for Committee members, we will consider 
applications for positions, which include:
     United States citizens holding active licenses or 
certificates issued under 46 U.S.C. chapter 71 or merchant mariner 
documents issued under 46 U.S.C. chapter 73, including two credentialed 
with ratings: one of which shall be endorsed as an able bodied seamen; 
and one that shall be endorsed as a qualified member of the engine 
department.
    The Department of Homeland Security does not discriminate in 
selection of Committee members based on race, color, religion, sex, 
national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender 
identity, marital status, disabilities and genetic information, age, 
membership in an employee organization, or any other non-merit factor. 
The Department of Homeland Security strives to achieve a widely diverse 
candidate pool for all of its recruitment selections.
    If you are interested in applying to become a member of the 
Committee, send your cover letter and resume to Megan Johns Henry, 
Alternate Designated Federal Officer of the National Merchant Marine 
Personnel Advisory Committee via one of the transmittal methods in the 
ADDRESSES section by the deadline in the DATES section of this notice. 
When you send your application to us via email, we will send you an 
email confirming receipt of your application.

    Dated: July 28, 2020.
Jeffrey G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2020-16652 Filed 7-30-20; 8:45 am]
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