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44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., chapter 35, as 

amended. An ICR is an application to 

OIRA seeking the approval, extension, 

or renewal of a Coast Guard collection 

of information (Collection). The ICR 

contains information describing the 

Collection’s purpose, the Collection’s 

likely burden on the affected public, an 

explanation of the necessity of the 

Collection, and other important 

information describing the Collection. 

There is one ICR for each Collection. 

The Coast Guard invites comments on 

whether this ICR should be granted 

based on the Collection being necessary 

for the proper performance of 

Departmental functions. In particular, 

the Coast Guard would appreciate 

comments addressing: (1) the practical 

utility of the Collection; (2) the accuracy 

of the estimated burden of the 

Collection; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of 

information subject to the Collection; 

and (4) ways to minimize the burden of 

the Collection on respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

In response to your comments, we 

may revise this ICR or decide not to seek 

an extension of approval for the 

Collection. We will consider all 

comments and material received during 

the comment period. 

We encourage you to respond to this 

request by submitting comments and 

related materials. Comments must 

contain the OMB Control Number of the 

ICR and the docket number of this 

request, [USCG–2023–0587], and must 

be received by November 20, 2023. 

Submitting Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. If your material 

cannot be submitted using https://

www.regulations.gov, contact the person 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document for 

alternate instructions. Documents 

mentioned in this notice, and all public 

comments, are in our online docket at 

https://www.regulations.gov and can be 

viewed by following that website’s 

instructions. Additionally, if you go to 

the online docket and sign up for email 

alerts, you will be notified when 

comments are posted. 

We accept anonymous comments. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. For more about privacy and 

submissions in response to this 

document, see DHS’s eRulemaking 

System of Records notice (85 FR 14226, 

March 11, 2020). 

Information Collection Request 

Title: Official Logbook. 

OMB Control Number: 1625–0018. 

Summary: The Official Logbook 

contains information about the voyage, 

the vessel’s crew, drills, watches, and 

operations conducted during the 

voyage. Official Logbook entries identify 

particulars of the voyage, including the 

name of the ship, official number, port 

of registry, tonnage, names and 

merchant mariner credential numbers of 

the master and crew, the nature of the 

voyage, and class of ship. In addition, it 

also contains entries for the vessel’s 

drafts, maintenance of watertight 

integrity of the ship, drills and 

inspections, crew list and report of 

character, a summary of laws applicable 

to Official Logbooks, and miscellaneous 

entries. 

Need: 46 U.S.C. 11301, 11302, 11303, 

and 11304 require applicable merchant 

vessels to maintain an Official Logbook. 

The Official Logbook contains 

information about the vessel, voyage, 

crew, and watch. Lack of these 

particulars would make it difficult for a 

seaman to verify vessel employment and 

wages, and for the Coast Guard to verify 

compliance with laws and regulations 

concerning vessel operations and safety 

procedures. The Official Logbook serves 

as an official record of recordable events 

transpiring at sea such as births, deaths, 

marriages, disciplinary actions, etc. 

Absent the Official Logbook, there 

would be no official civil record of these 

events. The courts accept log entries as 

proof that the logged event occurred. If 

this information was not collected, the 

Coast Guard’s commercial vessel safety 

program would be negatively impacted, 

as there would be no official record of 

U.S. merchant vessel voyages. Similarly, 

those seeking to prove that an event 

required to be logged occurred would 

not have an official record available. 

Forms: CG–706B Official Logbook. 

Respondents: Shipping companies. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Hour Burden Estimate: The estimated 

burden remains at 1,750 hours a year. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended. 

Dated: September 7, 2023. 

Kathleen Claffie, 

Chief, Office of Privacy Management, U.S. 

Coast Guard. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2023–0589] 

Availability of Coast Guard Data to the 

Public in Implementation of the Open 

Government Data Act and To Support 

Coast Guard Rulemaking 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces 

the availability of Coast Guard data to 

the public in implementation of the 

Open Government Data Act and in 

support of Coast Guard rulemaking. The 

Coast Guard anticipates that the online 

data and geospatial dashboard will 

empower the general public, affected 

entities, and other interested parties to 

engage more effectively in Coast Guard 

rulemakings. We encourage you to 

submit comments describing what 

additional resources or data would help 

you participate in Coast Guard 

rulemakings. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted to 

the online docket via https://

www.regulations.gov on or before 

January 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2023–0589 using the Federal DecisionMaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. See the ‘‘Public 

Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about this document call or 

email Evan Morris, Coast Guard Office 

Standards Evaluation and Development; 

telephone 571–608–6719, email 

Evan.Morris@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments on your data needs to 

participate more effectively in Coast 

Guard rulemakings. We will consider all 

submissions and may adjust our public 

facing resources to improve public 

participation in the rulemaking process 

based on your comments. 

Submitting comments. We encourage 

you to submit comments through the 

Federal Decision-Making Portal at 

https://www.regulations.gov. To do so, 

go to https://www.regulations.gov, type 

USCG–2023–0589 in the search box and 

click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, look for this 


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document in the Search Results column, 

and click on it. Then click on the 

Comment option. If your material 

cannot be submitted using http://

www.regulations.gov, contact the person 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document for 

alternate instructions. 

Viewing material in docket. Public 

comments will also be placed in our 

online docket and can be viewed by 

following instructions on the https://

www.regulations.gov Frequently Asked 

Questions web page. We review all 

comments received, but we may choose 

not to post off-topic, inappropriate, or 

duplicate comments that we receive. 

Personal information. We accept 

anonymous comments. Comments we 

post to https://www.regulations.gov will 

include any personal information you 

have provided. For more about privacy 

and submissions in response to this 

document, see DHS’s eRulemaking 

System of Records notice (85 FR 14226, 

March 11, 2020). 

Discussion 

The Coast Guard Office of Standards 

Evaluation and Development (CG–REG) 

is endeavoring to provide to the public 

as much U.S. Coast Guard data as 

possible and practicable—resource 

permitting—in implementation of Title 

II within the Evidence-Based 

Policymaking Act of 2018, named the 

Open Government Data Act. The Open 

Government Data Act guides federal 

agencies to make data open by default, 

subject to certain provisions such as (i) 

risks and restrictions related to the 

disclosure of personally identifiable 

information and (ii) security 

considerations. This notice shares 

several U.S. Coast Guard websites where 

our data resources are available to the 

public. 

The ‘‘Annual Vessel Statistics’’ page 

provides the public with access to the 

universe of commercial vessels the U.S. 

Coast Guard regulates. The statistics 

available at the time of this notice are 

for 2021 and 2022; future year statistics 

will be provided as available. This page 

also allows you to download a list of 

publicly available information of these 

vessels by the vessel’s commercial 

service. On this page, we present the 

aggregated information. We have also 

analyzed this information and created a 

dashboard which help any user quickly 

understand the scale and change in 

vessel populations by routes, 

responsible districts, and classification. 

The web address for the ‘‘Annual Vessel 

Statistics’’ page is https://

dco.uscg.afpims.mil/Our-Organization/ 

Assistant-Commandant-for-PreventionPolicy-CG-5P/Commercial-RegulationsStandards-CG-5PS/Office-of-StandardsEvaluation-and-Development-CG-REG/ 

Annual-Vessel-Statistics/2022-AnnualVessel-Statistics/. 

In addition, we have created an 

interactive geospatial dashboard on 

ArcGIS Pro that displays significant 

maritime incidents that involved the 

U.S. Coast Guard from 2012 to 2022. 

This dashboard defines a significant 

maritime incident as an incident that 

resulted in at least $100,000 of property 

damage or an incident that resulted in 

three or more injuries or one fatality. 

This data comes from the Coast Guard’s 

Marine Investigation Safety and Law 

Enforcement (MISLE) database. This 

information is displaying publicly 

available information from the Coast 

Guard’s Port State Information 

eXchange system: https://

cgmix.uscg.mil/PSIX/Default.aspx. The 

web address for the Significant 

Maritime Incident GIS Dashboard is 

https://dco.uscg.afpims.mil/OurOrganization/Assistant-Commandantfor-Prevention-Policy-CG-5P/ 

Commercial-Regulations-Standards-CG5PS/Office-of-Standards-Evaluationand-Development-CG-REG/AnnualVessel-Statistics/GIS/. 

This Significant Maritime Incident 

Dashboard is a visual aid which can 

help end users better understand 

specific aspects of the affected 

populations for the ongoing Coast Guard 

rulemakings that are on the Unified 

Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory 

Actions (https://www.reginfo.gov). The 

data may be useful for public 

participation in our current Unified 

Agenda regulatory actions, such as 

Claims Procedures Under the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (Regulatory 

Identification Number: 1625–AA03), 

Marine Casualty Reporting on the Outer 

Continental Shelf (1625–AB99), 

Shipping Safety Fairways Along the 

Atlantic Coast (1625–AC57), Safety 

Management Systems for Domestic 

Passenger Vessels (1625–AC65), and 

Towing Vessel Firefighting Training 

(1625–AC64). 

We encourage you to submit 

comments describing your data needs to 

participate more effectively in Coast 

Guard rulemaking. In particular, the 

U.S. Coast Guard requests responses to 

the following questions: 

1. What data could the U.S. Coast 

Guard provide that would encourage 

your participation in rulemakings? 

2. What data could the U.S. Coast 

Guard provide that would help your 

academic research to inform future 

rulemakings? 

3. In addition to the Unified Agenda, 

how do you recommend the U.S. Coast 

Guard publicize information about 

rulemaking activities? 

Based on public comment, other 

factors, and available USCG resources, 

we may continue to expand the 

availability of U.S. Coast Guard data 

resources that may be useful for 

participating in the rulemaking process. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 44 U.S. Code 3506(b)(6). 

T. Brown, 

Office Chief, U.S. Coast Guard, Standards 

Evaluation and Development. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6427–N–01] 

Statutorily Mandated Designation of 

Difficult Development Areas and 

Qualified Census Tracts for 2024 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document designates 

‘‘Difficult Development Areas’’ (DDAs) 

and ‘‘Qualified Census Tracts’’ (QCTs) 

for purposes of the Low-Income 

Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) under 

Internal Revenue Code (IRC) section 42. 

The United States Department of 

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

makes new DDA and QCT designations 

annually. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on how areas are designated 

and on geographic definitions, contact 

Michael K. Hollar, Senior Economist, 

Public Finance and Regulatory Analysis 

Division, Office of Policy Development 

and Research, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street SW, Room 8216, Washington, DC 

20410–6000; telephone number 202– 

402–5878, or send an email to 

Michael.K.Hollar@hud.gov. For specific 

legal questions pertaining to section 42, 

Office of the Associate Chief Counsel, 

Passthroughs and Special Industries, 

Internal Revenue Service, 1111 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20224; telephone number 202–317– 

4137. For questions about the 

‘‘HUBZone’’ program, contact Lori 

Gillen, Director, HUBZone Program, 

Office of Government Contracting and 

Business Development, U.S. Small 

Business Administration, 409 Third 

Street SW, Suite 8800, Washington, DC 

20416; telephone number 202–386– 

7382, or send an email to hubzone@

sba.gov. (These are not toll-free 


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