Today the Coast Guard published two information collection
request (ICR) notices in the Federal Register. The first (78 FR
65351-65352) was a 60-day ICR notice and the second (78 FR
65349-65351) was a 30-day ICR Notice. The notices covered the following
ICRs (the first one is the 60-day ICR notice):
• 1625-0025: Carriage of Bulk Solids Requiring Special
Handling
• 1625-0074, Direct User Fees for Inspection or Examination
of U.S. and Foreign Commercial Vessels;
• 1625-0084, Audit Reports under the International Safety
Management Code and
• 1625-0093, Facilities Transferring Oil or Hazardous
Materials in Bulk
All of these ICRs are renewals. Only the first and last
notices may be of specific interest to readers of this blog.
Bulk Solids ICR
This ICR covers the
submission of special permits for the safe carriage for unlisted materials. The
only change noted
in this ICR request is that the “estimated burden has increased from 745 hours
to 955 hours a year due to an increase in the estimated annual number of
responses for Special Permits”.
The previous ICR
approval shows that the number of responses and the number of hours for the
burden are the same. This indicates that the Coast Guard estimates that the
average time to complete special permit request is one hour.
Bulk Transfer ICR
This ICR covers the
filing of a letter of intent to operate a facility that will transfer bulk oil
or hazardous materials to or from vessels and the maintenance of an Operators
Manual for such a facility. The Coast Guard notes
that the “estimated burden has decreased from 84,247 hours to 45,748 hours a
year due to a reduction in the estimated annual number of respondents”.
The previous ICR approval shows 2,667 annual responses for
an average burden per response of about 31.6 hours, presumably most of this is
for the production and maintenance of Operators Manuals not writing letters of
intent. Keeping the same ratio of manuals to letters we can assume that the
Coast Guard is only expecting about 1448 responses per year.
Public Response
The Coast Guard is soliciting public responses on the
accuracy of its assumptions and the need for these ICRS. The responses to the
60-day notice may be filed via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # USCG-2013-0861)
and must be submitted by December 30th, 2013. The responses to the
30-day notice need to be sent directly to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and may be sent by email (OIRA-submission@omb.eop.gov)
by December 2nd, 2013.
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