8336 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 31 / Tuesday, February 17, 2015 / Notices 

On October 18, 1991, the President 

delegated his authority under 33 U.S.C. 

2732(o) to the Secretary of 

Transportation in Executive Order 

12777, section 8(g) (see 56 FR 54757; 

October 22, 1991) for purposes of 

certifying advisory councils, or groups, 

subject to the Act. On March 3, 1992, 

the Secretary redelegated that authority 

to the Commandant of the USCG (see 57 

FR 8582; March 11, 1992). The 

Commandant redelegated that authority 

to the Chief, Office of Marine Safety, 

Security and Environmental Protection 

(G–M) on March 19, 1992 (letter #5402). 

On July 7, 1993, the USCG published 

a policy statement, 58 FR 36504, to 

clarify the factors that shall be 

considered in making the determination 

as to whether advisory councils, or 

groups, should be certified in 

accordance with the Act. 

The Assistant Commandant for 

Marine Safety and Environmental 

Protection (CG–5), redelegated 

recertification authority for advisory 

councils, or groups, to the Commander, 

Seventeenth Coast Guard District on 

February 26, 1999 (letter #16450). 

On September 16, 2002, the USCG 

published a policy statement, 67 FR 

58440, that changed the recertification 

procedures such that applicants are 

required to provide the USCG with 

comprehensive information every three 

years (triennially). For each of the two 

years between the triennial application 

procedure, applicants submit a letter 

requesting recertification that includes a 

description of any substantive changes 

to the information provided at the 

previous triennial recertification. 

Further, public comment is not solicited 

prior to recertification during 

streamlined years, only during the 

triennial comprehensive review. 

Discussion of Comments 

On May 23, 2014 the USCG published 

a Notice of Availability; request for 

comments for recertification of Cook 

Inlet Regional Citizens’ Advisory 

Council in the Federal Register (76 FR 

1187). We received 54 comments from 

the public commenting on the proposed 

action. No public meeting was 

requested, and none was held. All 54 

comments were positive and in support 

of recertification. These letters in 

support of the recertification 

consistently cited CIRCAC’s broad 

representation of the respective 

community’s interests, appropriate 

actions to keep the public informed, 

improvements to both spill response 

preparation and spill prevention, and 

oil spill industry monitoring efforts that 

combat complacency—as intended by 

the Act. The information provided with 

the 2014 application package, follow up 

consultation with CIRCAC and public 

support through positive comments 

displayed ample representation of the 

communities and interests of Cook Inlet 

and promotion of environmentally safe 

marine transportation and oil facility 

operations. 

Recertification 

By letter dated August 27, 2014, the 

Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard 

certified that the CIRCAC qualifies as an 

alternative voluntary advisory group 

under 33 U.S.C. 2732(o). This 

recertification terminates on August 31, 

2015. 

Dated: 27 Aug. 2014. 

Charles L. Cashin, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard Commander, 

Seventeenth Coast Guard District, Acting. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2014–1020] 

Guidance on Maritime Cybersecurity 

Standards 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice; extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending 

the comment period on the notice with 

request for comments titled, ‘‘Guidance 

on Maritime Cybersecurity Standards,’’ 

published on December 18, 2014. We 

are extending the comment period at the 

request of several industry participants 

to ensure stakeholders have adequate 

time to submit complete responses. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must either be submitted to our online 

docket via http://www.regulations.gov 

on or before April 15, 2015, or reach the 

Docket Management Facility by that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2014–1020 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 email LT Josephine Long, Coast 

Guard; telephone 202–372–1109, email 

Josephine.A.Long@uscg.mil or LCDR 

Joshua Rose, Coast Guard; 202–372– 

1106, email Joshua.D.Rose@uscg.mil. If 

you have questions on viewing or 

submitting material to the docket, call 

Ms. Cheryl Collins, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone 202–366– 

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments and related materials on the 

questions we posed in the notice with 

request for comments, published on 

December 18, 2014 (79 FR 75574). All 

comments received will be posted, 

without change, to http://

www.regulations.gov, and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. 

A. Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (USCG–2014–1020) 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 email 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, use 

‘‘USCG–2014–1020’’ as your search 

term, and follow the instructions on that 

Web site for submitting comments. 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 your 

comments 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 and may 


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1A Transportation Security Incident is defined in 

33 CFR 101.105 to mean ‘‘a security incident 

resulting in a significant loss of life, environmental 

damage, transportation system disruption, or 

economic disruption in a particular area. 

change this proposed rule based on your 

comments. 

If you submit comments, do not send 

materials that include trade secrets, 

confidential, commercial, or financial 

information; or Sensitive Security 

Information to the public docket. Please 

submit such comments separately from 

other comments on the notice. 

Comments containing this type of 

information should be appropriately 

marked as containing such information 

and submitted by mail to the Coast 

Guard point of contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Upon receipt of such comments, the 

Coast Guard will not place the 

comments in the public docket and will 

handle them in accordance with 

applicable safeguards and restrictions 

on access. The Coast Guard will hold 

them in a separate file to which the 

public does not have access, and place 

a note in the public docket that the 

Coast Guard has received such materials 

from the commenter. If the Coast Guard 

receives a request to examine or copy 

this information, we will treat it as any 

other request under the Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). 

B. Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as 

documents mentioned in this notice as 

being available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, use 

‘‘USCG–2014–1020’’ as your search 

term, and follow the instructions on that 

Web site for viewing documents in the 

public docket for this notice. 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. 

C. Privacy Act 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of all 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 notice regarding our public dockets 

in the January 17, 2008, issue of the 

Federal Register (73 FR 3316). 

II. Background 

On December 18, 2014, the Coast 

Guard published a notice with request 

for comments titled, ‘‘Guidance on 

Maritime Cybersecurity Standards’’ (79 

FR 75574). In the notice, the Coast 

Guard announced that it is developing 

policy to help vessel and facility 

operators identify and address cyberrelated vulnerabilities that could 

contribute to a Transportation Security 

Incident.1 The notice sought public 

input from the maritime industry and 

other interested parties on how to 

identify and mitigate potential 

vulnerabilities to cyber-dependent 

systems. Additionally, the Coast Guard 

hosted a public meeting on January 15, 

2015 in Washington, DC, to provide an 

opportunity for the public to comment 

on the development of security 

assessment methods that might assist 

vessel and facility owners and operators 

identify and address cybersecurity 

vulnerabilities. The Coast Guard intends 

to consider the public comments from 

the meeting and in response to the 

notice in developing relevant guidance, 

which may include standards, 

guidelines, and best practices to protect 

maritime critical infrastructure. 

III. Reason for the Extension 

On December 18, 2014, the Coast 

Guard published a notice with request 

for comments titled, ‘‘Guidance on 

Maritime Cybersecurity Standards’’ (79 

FR 75574). The comment period for the 

notice was set to expire on February 17, 

2015. On January 15, 2015, the Coast 

Guard hosted a public meeting in 

Washington, DC on maritime 

cybersecurity. Several industry 

participants have contacted the Coast 

Guard personnel identified in the notice 

and at the public meeting to request 

more time to respond to the notice. 

Accordingly, the Coast Guard is 

extending the public comment period 

until April 15, 2015, to ensure that all 

stakeholders have adequate time to 

review and fully respond to the 

questions posed in the December 18, 

2014 notice. We encourage all interested 

members of the public to send 

comments in response to the notice. 

This notice of extension is issued 

under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a). 

Dated: February 10, 2015. 

Andrew Tucci, 

Chief, Office of Port & Facility Compliance, 

U.S. Coast Guard. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2007–0008] 

National Advisory Council; Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Committee management; notice 

of Federal advisory committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) National 

Advisory Council (NAC) will meet in 

person on March 4 and 5, 2015 in New 

Orleans, LA. The meeting will be open 

to the public. 

DATES: The NAC will meet on 

Wednesday, March 4, 2015, from 8:30 

a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Thursday, 

March 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Central Standard Time (CST). Please 

note that the meeting may close early if 

the NAC has completed its business. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Conference Center at the historic 

Jackson Barracks located at 6400 St. 

Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 

70117. All visitors to the Jackson 

Barracks are required to register with 

FEMA prior to the meeting in order to 

be admitted to the building. Photo 

identification is required to access the 

building. Please provide your name, 

telephone number, email address, title, 

and organization by close of business on 

March 2, 2015, to the person listed in 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

below. 

For information on facilities or 

services for individuals with disabilities 

or to request special assistance at the 

meeting, contact the person listed in FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT below as 

soon as possible. 

To facilitate public participation, 

members of the public are invited to 

provide written comments on the issues 

to be considered by the NAC (see 

‘‘Agenda’’). Written comments must be 

submitted and received by 5 p.m. CST 

on February 27, 2015, identified by 

Docket ID FEMA–2007–0008, and 

submitted by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: FEMA–RULES@

fema.dhs.gov. Include the docket 

number in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Fax: (540) 504–2331. 

• Mail: Regulatory Affairs Division, 

Office of Chief Counsel, FEMA, 500 C 


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