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references ‘‘§§ 917.16 and 917.21,’’ and 

suspend the section indefinitely. 

§ 917.29 [Amended] 

20. In § 917.29, lift the suspension of 

April 4, 1994 (59 FR 10055), remove the 

words ‘‘and of the Peach Commodity 

Committee’’ and ‘‘each’’ from paragraph 

(b), remove the final sentence of 

paragraph (d), and suspend the section 

indefinitely. 

§§ 917.30 through 917.33 [Suspended] 

21. Sections 917.30 through 917.33 

are suspended indefinitely. 

§ 917.36 [Suspended] 

22. Section 917.36 is suspended 

indefinitely. 

§ 917.34 [Amended] 

23. In § 917.34, lift the suspension of 

April 4, 1994 (59 FR 10055), remove the 

references ‘‘§§ 917.21 and 917.22’’ in 

paragraph (k) and add in their place the 

references ‘‘§ 917.21,’’ and suspend the 

section indefinitely. 

§ 917.35 [Amended] 

24. In § 917.35, lift the suspension of 

April 4, 1994 (59 FR 10055), remove the 

words ‘‘Peach and’’ and ‘‘each’’ wherever 

they appear in paragraph (a), remove the 

final sentence of paragraph (d), and 

suspend the section indefinitely. 

§ 917.37 [Amended] 

25. In § 917.37, remove the final three 

sentences of paragraph (b) and suspend 

the section indefinitely. 

§§ 917.38 through 917.43 [Suspended] 

26. Sections 917.38 through 917.43 

are suspended indefinitely. 

§ 917.45 [Suspended] 

27. Section 917.45 is suspended 

indefinitely. 

§ 917.50 [Suspended] 

28. Section 917.50 is suspended 

indefinitely. 

§§ 917.60 through 917.69 [Suspended] 

29. Sections 917.60 through 917.69 

are suspended indefinitely. 

§ 917.100 [Amended] 

30. In § 917.100, lift the suspension of 

April 4, 1994 (59 FR 10055), remove the 

words ‘‘and peaches,’’ and suspend the 

section indefinitely. 

§§ 917.101 through 917.115 [Suspended] 

31. Sections 917.101 through 917.115 

are suspended indefinitely. 

§ 917.119 [Amended] 

32. In § 917.119, remove paragraph 

(a), redesignate paragraphs (b) through 

(e) as paragraphs (a) through (d), and 

suspend the section indefinitely. 

§ 917.122 [Suspended] 

33. Section 917.122 is suspended 

indefinitely. 

§ 917.143 [Amended] 

34. In § 917.143, lift the suspension of 

April 4, 1994 (59 FR 10055); remove the 

words ‘‘and peaches’’ from paragraph (b) 

introductory text and from paragraphs 

(b)(1), (b)(2), and (b)(4); remove the 

words ‘‘and 200 pounds of peaches’’ 

from paragraph (b)(3); and suspend the 

section indefinitely. 

§ 917.150 [Removed] 

35. Remove § 917.150. 

§ 917.258 [Removed] 

36. Remove § 917.258. 

§ 917.259 [Removed] 

37. Remove § 917.259. 

§ 917.442 [Removed] 

38. Remove § 917.442. 

§ 917.459 [Removed] 

39. Remove § 917.459. 

Dated: May 24, 2011. 

Rayne Pegg, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

20 CFR Chapter III 

[Docket No. SSA–2011–0042] 

Retrospective Review Under E.O. 

13563 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Executive 

Order (E.O.) 13563, ‘‘Improving 

Regulation and Regulatory Review,’’ we 

are announcing that our preliminary 

plan for retrospective review is available 

for public comment. We are now 

requesting comments on the plan. 

DATES: To be sure that we consider your 

comments, we must receive them by 

June 27, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Please send your comments 

to RegsReview@ssa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Martin Sussman, Senior Advisor for 

Regulations, Social Security 

Administration, 6401 Security 

Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21235–6401, 

(410) 965–1767. For information on 

eligibility or filing for benefits, call our 

national toll-free number, 1–800–772– 

1213 or TTY 1–800–325–0778, or visit 

our Internet site, Social Security Online, 

at http://www.socialsecurity.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 18, 2011, the President issued 

E.O. 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review,’’ which requires 

Federal agencies to develop a 

preliminary plan to ‘‘periodically review 

its existing significant regulations’’ 

(section 6(b)). On January 25, 2011, we 

issued a press release and posted 

information on our Open Government 

Web site requesting public comment 

about which of our regulations we 

should review to ensure they are not 

outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or 

excessively burdensome. 

We developed a preliminary plan for 

retrospective review and submitted it to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs in the Office of Management and 

Budget. The plan focuses on our process 

for updating the Listing of Impairments 

(Listings) that we use to evaluate 

disability claims under titles II and XVI 

of the Social Security Act (Act). The 

listings are examples of impairments 

that we consider severe enough to 

prevent an adult from doing any gainful 

activity or that we consider severe 

enough to result in marked and severe 

functional limitations for a child 

seeking SSI payments. The plan also 

includes two initiatives to reduce 

paperwork burdens on the public 

imposed by certain agency regulations. 

We have posted the preliminary plan 

on our Open Government Web site, 

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/open/ 

regsreview, and are now requesting 

public comments on the plan. Please 

note that in this notice, we are not 

requesting comments on the content of 

the Listings, but rather on the plan 

itself, which describes our process for 

updating the Listings. We will carefully 

review all comments, but we will not to 

respond to them individually. 

Dated: May 25, 2011. 

Dean Landis, 

Deputy Chief of Staff, Social Security 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

29 CFR Part 1602 

RIN 3046–AA89 

Recordkeeping and Reporting 

Requirements Under Title VII, the ADA, 

and GINA 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 


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SUMMARY: The Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission (‘‘EEOC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) proposes to extend its 

existing recordkeeping requirements 

under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 

1964 (Title VII) and the Americans with 

Disabilities Act (ADA) to entities 

covered by title II of the Genetic 

Information Nondiscrimination Act of 

2008 (‘‘GINA’’), which prohibits 

employment discrimination based on 

genetic information. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before August 1, 2011. 

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8(c), a 

public hearing concerning these 

proposed changes will be held at a place 

and time to be announced. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments by 

mail to Stephen Llewellyn, Executive 

Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, 

131 M Street, NE., Suite 6NE03F, 

Washington, DC 20507. Written 

comments of six or fewer pages may be 

faxed to the Executive Secretariat at 

(202) 663–4114. (There is no toll free 

FAX number.) Receipt of facsimile 

transmittals will not be acknowledged, 

except that the sender may request 

confirmation of receipt by calling the 

Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663– 

4070 (voice) or (202) 663–4074 (TTY). 

(These are not toll free numbers.) In lieu 

of sending written comments, comments 

may be submitted to EEOC 

electronically on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. After accessing 

this Web site, follow its instructions for 

submitting comments. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information you provide. 

Copies of the received comments also 

will be available for inspection in the 

EEOC Library by advance appointment 

only, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday except legal holidays. 

Persons who schedule an appointment 

in the EEOC Library and need assistance 

to view the comments will be provided 

with appropriate aids upon request, 

such as readers or print magnifiers. To 

schedule an appointment to inspect the 

comments at the EEOC Library, contact 

the EEOC Library by calling (202) 663– 

4630 (voice) or (202) 663–4641 (TTY). 

(These are not toll free numbers.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas J. Schlageter, Assistant Legal 

Counsel, (202) 663–4668, or Erin N. 

Norris, Senior Attorney, (202) 663–4876, 

Office of Legal Counsel, 131 M Street, 

NE., Washington, DC 20507. Copies of 

this notice are available in the following 

alternate formats: Large print, braille, 

electronic computer disk, and audio 

tape. Requests for this notice in an 

alternative format should be made to the 

Publications Center at 1–800–699–3362 

(voice), 1–800–800–3302 (TTY), or 703– 

821–2098 (FAX—this is not a toll free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 

21, 2008, President George W. Bush 

signed the Genetic Information 

Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (‘‘GINA’’) 

into law. Title II of GINA protects job 

applicants, current and former 

employees, labor union members, and 

apprentices and trainees from 

discrimination based on their genetic 

information. Title II of GINA’s coverage 

corresponds with that of title VII of the 

Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 

covering employers with 15 or more 

employees, employment agencies, labor 

unions, and joint labor-management 

training programs, as well as Federal 

sector employers. Title II became 

effective on November 21, 2009. EEOC 

has issued interpretive regulations 

under GINA (See 75 FR 68912). Further, 

EEOC issued a final rule implementing 

changes to its administrative and 

procedural regulations in a separate 

notice found at 74 FR 63981. In the 

current rulemaking, EEOC is proposing 

to amend its recordkeeping regulations 

to add references to GINA. Neither 

EEOC’s existing recordkeeping 

regulations nor this proposal requires 

creation of any documents. The 

proposed change would impose the 

same record retention requirements 

under GINA that are imposed under 

Title VII and the ADA, i.e., any records 

made or kept must be retained for the 

period of time specified in the Title VII 

and ADA regulations. 

The EEOC proposal does not impose 

any reporting requirements under GINA, 

but reserves the right in the future to 

issue reporting regulations as may be 

necessary to accomplish the purposes of 

GINA. 

Persons wishing to present their 

views orally should notify the 

Commission of their desire to do so in 

writing no later than July 5, 2011 with 

a request to Stephen Llewellyn, 

Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat, 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission, 131 M Street, NE., Suite 

6NE03F, Washington, DC 20507. The 

request should include a written 

summary of the remarks to be offered. 

Regulatory Procedures 

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

The Commission has complied with 

the principles in section 1(b) of 

Executive Order 12866, Regulatory 

Planning and Review, as supplemented 

by Executive Order 13563, Improving 

Regulation and Regulatory Review. This 

rule is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ under section 3(f) of the Order 

12866, and does not require an 

assessment of potential costs and 

benefits under section 6(a)(3) of the 

Order. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

These proposed changes to EEOC’s 

existing regulations contain information 

collection requirements subject to 

review and approval by the Office of 

Management and Budget under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. It is 

estimated that the public recordkeeping 

burden will not increase significantly as 

a result of the amendments because all 

employers affected by them are already 

required to retain all personnel or 

employment records that they make or 

keep for one year, and the only new 

requirement is that they retain those 

records relevant to a charge of 

discrimination filed under GINA until 

the charge is resolved. As required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

is submitting to the Office of 

Management and Budget a request for 

approval of these information collection 

requirements under section 3507(d) of 

the Act. Organizations or individuals 

desiring to submit comments for 

consideration by OMB on these 

information collection requirements 

should address them to Chad Lallemand 

in the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Room 10235, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503 or by e-mail to 

Chad_A._Lallemand@omb.eop.gov. 

Collection title: Recordkeeping under 

Title VII, the ADA, and GINA. 

OMB number: 3046–0040. 

Description of affected public: 

Employers with 15 or more employees 

are subject to Title VII, the ADA, and 

GINA. 

Number of respondents: 899,580. 

Reporting hours: Not applicable. 

Number of forms: None. 

Federal cost: None. 

Abstract: Section 207 of GINA, 42 

U.S.C. 2000ff et seq., incorporates the 

powers, procedures, and remedies 

found in section 709 of Title VII. 

Section 709(c) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. 

2000e–8(c), requires the Commission to 

establish regulations pursuant to which 

employers subject to the Act shall 

preserve certain records to assist the 

EEOC in assuring compliance with the 

Act’s nondiscrimination in employment 

requirements. Any of the records 

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disclosed to the EEOC during an 

investigation are protected from public 

disclosure by the confidentiality 

provisions of sections 706(b) and 709(e) 

of Title VII. EEOC has issued 

recordkeeping regulations under Title 

VII and the ADA which require all 

covered entities to maintain all 

employment and personnel records they 

make or keep for a period of one year 

and all records relevant to a Title VII or 

ADA charge until the charge is resolved. 

The proposed revision will extend these 

same requirements to records relevant to 

a GINA charge. 

Burden statement: This recordkeeping 

requirement does not require reports or 

the creation of new documents; it 

merely requires retention of documents 

that the employer has already made or 

kept, and the burden imposed by these 

regulations is therefore minimal. An 

employer subject to the existing 

requirement in 29 CFR part 1602 

currently must retain all personnel or 

employment records made or kept by 

that employer for one year, and must 

retain any records relevant to charges 

filed under Title VII or the ADA until 

final disposition of those matters, which 

may be longer than one year. This 

proposed rulemaking would require 

employers to also retain documents 

relevant to charges filed under GINA 

until final disposition of those charges. 

Existing Burdens Prior to Change 

—Establishing Recordkeeping System: 

There are 899,580 employers subject 

to the recordkeeping requirement in 

Part 1602. The currently approved 

Title VII and ADA recordkeeping 

requirement in Part 1602 imposes a 

total burden on covered employers in 

the aggregate of approximately 16,002 

hours, which represents the 

aggregated time that must be spent by 

all new firms taken together to ensure 

that their record maintenance systems 

comply with EEOC’s recordkeeping 

requirements. Based on the fact that 

these regulations do not require 

employers to create any records and 

do not impose any reporting 

requirements, but merely require 

employers to maintain the records 

that they do create, we estimate that 

it would take each new firm ten 

minutes or less to comply. Established 

firms bear no burden under this 

analysis, because their systems for 

retaining Title VII and ADA records 

are already in place. 

—Retention of Records When Charge Is 

Filed: For firms that have 

recordkeeping systems in place, the 

fact that a Title VII or ADA charge is 

filed should not impose any 

additional burden, because we 

assume that employers set up their 

recordkeeping systems in such a way 

as to ensure that records related to a 

charge are retained in accordance 

with EEOC regulations. 

Effect of Proposed Change on Existing 

Burdens 

—Establishing Recordkeeping System: 

There will be no increase in the 

existing burden as a result of this 

proposed change. As stated above, 

established firms bear no burden 

because their systems for retaining 

employment records under Title VII 

and ADA records are already in place. 

The burden imposed upon new firms 

created after the proposed regulatory 

change becomes effective would be 

the same as the burden shouldered by 

new firms prior to the change because 

it will take no longer to set up a 

recordkeeping system to retain 

records relevant to Title VII, ADA, 

and GINA charges than it did to set up 

a recordkeeping system to retain 

records relevant to Title VII and ADA 

charges. Consequently, the aggregate 

burden for new firms of establishing 

a compliant recordkeeping system 

remains at 16,002 hours. 

—Retention of Records When Charge Is 

Filed: The only employers who may 

be subject to an increased burden are 

those existing firms that become 

parties to charges filed under GINA 

and must therefore ensure that 

relevant records are retained until the 

final disposition of the charges. We 

estimate that an employer that is a 

party to a GINA charge will need less 

than ten minutes to ensure that its 

previously existing system of 

retaining records pertinent to charges 

filed under Title VII and the ADA is 

revised to retain records relating to 

charges filed under GINA (based upon 

our estimate that a new firm would 

need 10 minutes to set up its 

recordkeeping system to comply with 

EEOC regulations). Assuming that 200 

GINA charges will be filed and using 

a burden estimate of 10 minutes per 

charge, the annual aggregate burden 

would increase by only about 33 

hours. This estimated increase is most 

likely higher than the actual burden 

because approximately 75 percent of 

all charges filed under GINA in the 

last fiscal year were also filed under 

the ADA. In other words, employers 

would have been required to maintain 

the records relevant to 75 percent of 

the GINA charges under the existing 

recordkeeping requirements because 

those records were relevant to ADA 

charges. 

Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, and OMB regulation 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)(1), the Commission solicits 

public comment to enable it to: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

Commission’s functions, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Commission’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Title II of GINA applies to all 

employers with fifteen or more 

employees, approximately 822,000 of 

which are small firms (entities with 15– 

500 employees) according to data 

provided by the Small Business 

Administration Office of Advocacy. See 

Firm Size Data at http://sba.gov/advo/ 

research/data.html#us. We estimate that 

there will be 200 new charges filed 

under GINA per year. We estimate that 

typical human resources professionals 

will need to dedicate no more than ten 

minutes per charge to satisfy the 

requirements of the amended regulation 

by altering the employer’s record 

retention system to retain any personnel 

documents relevant to a charge of 

discrimination under GINA until the 

resolution of the matter. We further 

estimate that the median hourly pay rate 

of an HR professional is approximately 

$46.40. See Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Occupational Employment and Wages, 

May 2009 at http://www.bls.gov/oes/ 

current/oes113049.htm. Even assuming 

that every one of the estimated 200 

GINA charges is filed against a small 

business, EEOC does not believe that a 

cost of approximately $7.73 per charge 

will be significant for the impacted 

small entities. Further, if each of the 200 

GINA charges was filed against a 

different small entity, 200 affected firms 

out of 822,000 is not a substantial 

number of small firms. Accordingly, the 

Commission certifies under 5 U.S.C. 

605(b) that this rule will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

because any burden it may impose on 


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business entities is minimal. For this 

reason, a regulatory flexibility analysis 

is not required. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 

This final rule will not result in the 

expenditure by State, local, or Tribal 

governments, in the aggregate, or by the 

private sector, of $100 million or more 

in any one year, and it will not 

significantly or uniquely affect small 

governments. Therefore, no actions were 

deemed necessary under the provisions 

of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995. 

Congressional Review Act 

This action does not substantially 

affect the rights or obligations of nonagency parties and, accordingly, is not 

a ‘‘rule’’ as that term is used by the 

Congressional Review Act (Subtitle E of 

the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 

(SBREFA)). Therefore, the reporting 

requirement of 5 U.S.C. 801 does not 

apply. 

List of Subjects in 29 CFR Part 1602 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Equal Employment 

Opportunity. 

For the Commission. 

Dated: May 25, 2011. 

Jacqueline A. Berrien, 

Chair. 

Accordingly, part 1602 is proposed to 

be amended as follows: 

PART 1602—RECORDKEEPING AND 

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS UNDER 

TITLE VII, THE ADA, AND GINA 

1. The authority citation for part 1602 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2000e–8, 2000e–12; 

44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 12117; 42 

U.S.C. 2000ff–6. 

2. Amend Part 1602 by removing the 

words ‘‘title VII or the ADA’’ and adding 

in their place the words ‘‘title VII, the 

ADA, or GINA’’ in the following places: 

• § 1602.14; 

• § 1602.21(b); 

• § 1602.28(a); 

• § 1602.31. 

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BILLING CODE 6570–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 165 

[Docket No. USCG–2011–0125] 

RIN 1625–AA11 

Regulated Navigation Area; Magothy 

River, Sillery Bay, MD 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard proposes to 

establish a temporary regulated 

navigation area (RNA) in certain waters 

of the Magothy River, in Sillery Bay, 

Maryland, on July 23, 2011. This RNA 

is necessary to provide for the safety of 

life, property and the environment. This 

RNA restricts the movement of vessels 

throughout the regulated area during 

The Bumper Bash 2011 event. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must be received by the Coast Guard on 

or before July 5, 2011. Requests for 

public meetings must be received by the 

Coast Guard on or before the end of the 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2011–0125 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 proposed 

rule, call or e-mail Mr. Ronald Houck, 

Sector Baltimore Waterways 

Management Division, Coast Guard; 

telephone 410–576–2674, e-mail 

Ronald.L.Houck@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 participate in 

this rulemaking by submitting 

comments and related materials. 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 

rulemaking (USCG–2011–0125), 

indicate the specific section of this 

document to which each comment 

applies, and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online (via http:// 

www.regulations.gov) or by fax, mail, or 

hand delivery, but please use only one 

of these means. If you submit a 

comment online via http:// 

www.regulations.gov, it will be 

considered received by the Coast Guard 

when you successfully transmit the 

comment. If you fax, hand deliver, or 

mail your comment, it will be 

considered as having been received by 

the Coast Guard when it is received at 

the Docket Management Facility. 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 ‘‘Proposed Rule’’ and insert 

‘‘USCG–2011–0125’’ 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 

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 

change the rule based on your 

comments. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as 

documents mentioned in this preamble 

as being available in the docket, go to 

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


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