39334 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 150 / Thursday, August 6, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Anna Snouffer, 

Deputy Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2009–0365] 

Comment Request on MARPOL Annex 

V Wider Caribbean Region Special 

Area 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Request for 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks 

comments from the public on the effects 

of implementing the special area 

discharge standards on vessel and 

reception facility operations when the 

Wider Caribbean region (WCR) special 

area comes into effect. The Coast Guard 

also seeks recommendations from the 

public on how to efficiently transition 

from the current standards regulating 

garbage discharges to the special area 

discharge standards in the WCR when 

the WCR special area comes into effect. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must either be submitted to our online 

docket via http://www.regulations.gov 

on or before November 4, 2009 or reach 

the Docket Management Facility by that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2009–0365 using any one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, call 

or e-mail Bryana Nicholas, telephone 

202–372–1429, e-mail: 

Bryana.k.nicholas@uscg.mil; or David 

Condino, telephone 202–372–1145, email: david.a.condino@uscg.mil. If you 

have questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Renee V. 

Wright, Program Manager, Docket 

Operations, telephone 202–366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments and related material. All 

comments received will be posted, 

without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include the docket 

number for this notice (USCG–2009– 

0365) and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online, or by fax, mail or hand 

delivery, but please use only one of 

these means. We recommend that you 

include your name and a mailing 

address, an e-mail address, or a 

telephone number in the body of your 

document so that we can contact you if 

we have questions regarding your 

submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, click on the 

‘‘submit a comment’’ box, which will 

then become highlighted in blue. In the 

‘‘Document Type’’ drop down menu 

select ‘‘Notices’’ and insert ‘‘USCG– 

2009–0365’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box. 

Click ‘‘Search’’ then click on the balloon 

shape in the ‘‘Actions’’ column. If you 

submit your comments by mail or hand 

delivery, submit them in an unbound 

format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, 

suitable for copying and electronic 

filing. If you submit them by mail and 

would like to know that they reached 

the Facility, please enclose a stamped, 

self-addressed postcard or envelope. We 

will consider all comments and material 

received during the comment period. 

Viewing the comments: To view the 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, click on the ‘‘read 

comments’’ box, which will then 

become highlighted in blue. In the 

‘‘Keyword’’ box insert ‘‘USCG–2009– 

0365’’ and click ‘‘Search.’’ Click the 

‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ in the ‘‘Actions’’ 

column. If you do not have access to the 

Internet, you may view the docket 

online by visiting the Docket 

Management Facility in Room W12–140 

on the ground floor of the Department 

of Transportation West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. We have an agreement with 

the Department of Transportation to use 

the Docket Management Facility. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of comments received 

into any of our dockets by the name of 

the individual submitting the comment 

(or signing the comment, if submitted 

on behalf of an association, business, 

labor union, etc.). You may review a 

Privacy Act, system of records notice 

regarding our public dockets in the 

January 17, 2008, issue of the Federal 

Register (73 FR 3316). 

Background and Purpose 

The International Convention for the 

Prevention of Pollution from Ships 

(MARPOL), is an international 

agreement on the subject of marine 

pollution. The United States is a party 

to the Convention and has developed 

national regulations implementing the 

standards set out in MARPOL. MARPOL 

Annex V provides regulations for the 

prevention of pollution by garbage from 

ships. Annex V also allows for the 

creation of special areas with more 

stringent regulations for the discharge of 

garbage. 

In September 1990, the United States 

proposed to the International Maritime 

Organization (IMO), Marine 

Environment Protection Committee, to 

establish the Gulf of Mexico as a special 

area under MARPOL Annex V. In 

November 1990, Venezuela submitted 

an amendment to the proposal to 

include the Wider Caribbean region 

along with the Gulf of Mexico as a 

special area under MARPOL Annex V. 

The IMO adopted the WCR special area, 

including the Gulf of Mexico and the 

Caribbean Sea, in July 1991. In August 

1995, the Coast Guard added the WCR 

special area to the Code of Federal 

Regulations, as described in 33 CFR 

151.06(a)(12) (see, 60 FR 43377, Aug. 

21, 1995; 73 FR 35013, Jun. 19, 2008). 

In accordance with 33 CFR § 151.53 and 

paragraph 4(b) of Regulation 5 of Annex 

V of MARPOL, the WCR special area 

will enter into effect when each party to 

the Convention whose coastline borders 

the WCR special area has certified that 

reception facilities are available and the 

IMO establishes an effective date for the 

special area. 

In accordance with MARPOL 

Regulations 5 and 7, the United States 

has provided the required notification to 

IMO regarding our MARPOL Annex V 

reception facilities. However, because 

all of the parties to MARPOL within the 

WCR special area have yet to make 

sufficient notifications that reception 

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to allow for compliance with the special 

area discharge standards in the Annex, 

the IMO has not yet established a date 

for the WCR special area to come into 

effect. 

When the WCR special area enters 

into effect, the more restrictive 

discharge standards in 33 CFR 151.71 

and Regulation 5 of MARPOL Annex V 

will also enter into effect. In general, 

these regulations prohibit the discharge 

of all garbage from a ship in special 

areas except food wastes. The discharge 

of food wastes must be made as far as 

practicable from land, but in any case 

not less than 12 nautical miles from the 

nearest land. However, in the WCR 

special area food wastes comminuted or 

ground and capable of passing through 

a screen with openings no greater than 

25 millimeters may be discharged not 

less than 3 nautical miles from the 

nearest land. 

The Coast Guard will not speculate as 

to a time line, and there currently is no 

time line, for the WCR special area 

coming into effect. In anticipation of the 

WCR special area entering into effect at 

some point in the future, the Coast 

Guard invites the public, commercial 

interests, local, State, Federal agencies, 

Non-Governmental Organizations 

(NGOs), public interest groups, trade 

organizations, and all other interested 

parties to comment on the WCR special 

area entering into effect. 

The Coast Guard is specifically 

interested in identifying all issues that 

impact port reception facilities, 

commercial shipping vessels, and 

recreational vessels operating in the 

WCR special area and in obtaining 

recommendations to address those 

issues. The Coast Guard seeks input on 

the following general issues: 

• Additional MARPOL Annex V port 

reception facility capacity needed when 

the WCR special area goes in to effect; 

• The impact on MARPOL Annex V 

cargo residues within the WCR special 

area; 

• Impacts of MARPOL Annex V waste 

collection requirements on local/ 

regional waste disposal capacity and 

infrastructure located within ports in 

the WCR special area; 

• Time needed to ensure compliance 

with WCR special area discharge 

standards. 

The Coast Guard would also like to 

receive public input concerning the 

following questions: 

• How many vessels operating in the 

WCR currently treat it as a special area 

and adhere to the special area discharge 

standards? 

• What would be the operational 

impact to vessels discharging MARPOL 

Annex V garbage, including cargo 

residues and cargo hold wash-water 

containing cargo residue at a port 

reception facility? 

• Is there current capability to accept 

MARPOL Annex V cargo residues and 

cargo residue wash-water from vessels, 

and do cargo vessels currently use this 

type of reception facility? 

• How much additional MARPOL 

Annex V garbage would need to be 

offloaded at port reception facilities, 

and will currently adequate port 

reception facilities still be adequate 

when the WCR special area goes into 

effect? 

• What effect, if any, will the 

discharge restrictions in the WCR 

special area have on U.S. port and 

terminal operators holding a Certificate 

of Adequacy (COA)? 

• Will U.S. port and facility operators 

be able to meet increased quantity and 

capacity requirements and ensure that 

port reception facilities can meet the 

needs of all vessels calling at their 

ports? 

• How many vessels operate solely 

within the WCR special area? 

Written comments and responses to 

the above questions will be added to the 

docket number for this notice (USCG– 

2009–0365). The Coast Guard intends to 

review and analyze all comments 

received in order to develop a way 

forward for the implementation of the 

discharge standards when the WCR 

special area comes into effect. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 33 CFR 151.53(b) and 5 U.S.C. 552. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director of Commercial Regulations and 

Standards. 

[FR Doc. E9–18741 Filed 8–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5308–N–02] 

Notice of Availability: Implementation 

of the Tax Credit Assistance Program 

(TCAP) Changes and Clarifications 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Communnity Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On May 4, 2009, HUD posted 

on its Web site a notice establishing the 

submission requirements, eligible uses, 

fund commitment and expenditure 

deadlines, fund distribution, and other 

requirements for the Tax Credit 

Assistance Program (TCAP) authorized 

by section 2, Division A, Title XII of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111–5, approved 

February 17, 2009). Through this 

document, HUD announces that it has 

posted on its Web site a revised notice 

that changes and clarifies a number of 

TCAP program requirements established 

in the document posted on May 4, 2009. 

The changes to the notice include the 

expansion of the definition of eligible 

TCAP projects to include projects that 

have received or will receive Gulf 

Opportunity Zone and Midwestern 

Disaster Area Housing Credits, as 

provided for under section 1204 of the 

2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act 

(Pub. L. 111–32, approved June 24, 

2009). The revised notice also provides 

for the use of additional reporting 

information that has now become 

available from both the Department and 

the Office of Management and Budget, 

and the addition of acquisition, on-site 

demolition costs, and hazardous 

material remediation costs to the 

eligible TCAP program costs. Please see 

the revised document for all changes 

made. The revised notice is available on 

the HUD Web site at: http:// 

www.hud.gov/recovery/tax-credit.cfm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clifford Taffet, Director, Office of 

Affordable Housing, Office of 

Community Planning and Development, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., 

Room 7162, Washington, DC 20410– 

3000; telephone 1–800–998–9999. 

Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals 

may access the voice telephone number 

listed above by calling the toll-free 

Federal Information Relay Service 

during working hours at 800–877–8339. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Nelson R. Brego ́n, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Community Planning and Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–18800 Filed 8–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Collection of Information; 

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) plans to submit a request to OMB 

to renew approval of the collection of 

information in 36 CFR part 51, regarding 

the submission of offers in response to 

concession opportunities. NPS will be 


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