[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 13147]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03495]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[DOT-OST-2024-0010]


U.S. Coast Guard Loran Sites

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology 
(OST-R), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notification.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is issuing this 
Notification to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) that neither DOT, nor the 
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), are seeking transfer of the Loran 
properties from the USCG. This notification is being given based on the 
fact there was no identification of a need for the USCG Loran 
properties in response to the DOT Request for Information (RFI) on a 
Commercial enhanced Long Range Navigation (eLoran) Capability, DOT-OST-
2023-0118.

DATES: Responses should be filed by May 21, 2024. All questions 
concerning this Notification shall be emailed to [email protected]. When 
submitting questions and comments, please refer to the specific 
relevant text of this Notification. Each question submitted to DOT 
should be stated in such a way that there would be no objection to 
DOT's publishing that precise question (and its answer) in a formal 
Amendment to the Notification. That is, each question should be worded 
in such a way that the publication of that question (and its answer) 
would not divulge any information that would be considered proprietary 
or confidential. Further, any questions concerning any apparent error, 
omission, or ambiguity in this Notification shall include the 
questioner's supporting rationale as well as a description of the 
remedies that the questioner is asking DOT to consider. All questions 
that DOT decides to answer will be collectively answered in writing.

ADDRESSES: You may file responses identified by the docket number DOT-
OST-2024-0010 by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Portal: go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, West Building Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room 
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
     Fax: (202) 493-2251.
    Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket number 
DOT-OST-2024-0010 at the beginning of your submission. All submissions 
received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal information provided, unless proprietary and 
other sensitive information is so marked with requested disposition 
instructions. Any submissions with Confidential/Propriety information 
should be labeled as such in the title of the submission.
    Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all 
submissions received in any of our dockets by the name of the 
individual submitting the document (or signing the submission, if 
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act statement in the Federal 
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78), or you may visit 
https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/privacy/dot-privacy-policy.
    Docket: For access to the docket and comments received, go to 
http://www.regulations.gov or to the street address listed above. 
Follow the online instructions for accessing the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. Overview

    On October 3, 2023, DOT issued a Commercial eLoran Capability RFI, 
DOT-OST-2023-0118 (88 FR 68283), to determine:
    (1) If there is interest from private entities in offering a U.S. 
commercial eLoran service to the general public in the United States on 
a fee-for-service basis without any Federal investment, subsidy, 
procurement commitment or other commitment of credit or budgetary 
resources.
    (2) If respondent has an interest in offering a U.S.-based 
commercial eLoran service on a fee-for-service basis, identify what 
impediments stand in the way of respondent offering a U.S. commercial 
eLoran service. If lack of access to any federally-controlled assets 
and non-budgetary assistance related to utilizing such federally-
controlled assets are identified as impediments to offering such a 
service, a subsequent Request for Information may be issued to obtain 
additional data.
    This RFI was issued specifically to inform USCG divestiture of 
their legacy Loran sites, as required by section 11211 of the FY 2023 
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA; 14 U.S.C. 914). Per the FY 
2023 NDAA, if DOT or DoD expresses interest in obtaining any of the 
Loran-C properties, the properties will be transferred from USCG to 
DOT. No respondents to the RFI identified a need for the USCG Loran 
properties to provide a commercial eLoran capability in the United 
States. Therefore, neither DOT, nor DoD, are seeking transfer of the 
Loran properties from the USCG.

    Issued this day of February 15, 2024, in Washington, DC.
Robert C. Hampshire,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department 
of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2024-03495 Filed 2-20-24; 8:45 am]
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