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1 86 FR 7037 (published Jan. 25, 2021). 

2 86 FR 7619 (published Feb. 1, 2021). 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel; RFA Panel: 

HEALthy Brain and Child Development 

Study Consortium Administrative Cores 

(U24). 

Date: July 7, 2021. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Gianina Ramona 

Dumitrescu, Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, 

Center for Scientific Review, National 

Institutes of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Room 4193–C, Bethesda, MD 28092, (301) 

827–0696, dumitrescurg@csr.nih.gov. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to the meeting due to the timing 

limitations imposed by the review and 

funding cycle. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.306, Comparative Medicine; 

93.333, Clinical Research, 93.306, 93.333, 

93.337, 93.393–93.396, 93.837–93.844, 

93.846–93.878, 93.892, 93.893, National 

Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: July 1, 2021. 

Melanie J. Pantoja, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2021–0233] 

Request for Information on Coast 

Guard Programs, Regulations, and 

Policies for Addressing Climate 

Change 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard seeks 

input from the public on specific Coast 

Guard programs, regulations, policies, 

and procedures that the Coast Guard 

should consider changing to combat and 

respond to climate change. This 

information will help the Coast Guard 

effectively achieve its missions in a 

manner that advances the 

Administration’s urgent priorities of 

climate change mitigation, adaptation, 

and resilience. We further seek this 

input to ensure that we are 

implementing programs, policies, and 

activities that address (1) the cumulative 

effects of environmental damage, above 

all from climate change and (2) the 

disproportionately high, adverse 

climate-related impacts on 

disadvantaged communities, while also 

promoting a safe, secure, and resilient 

marine transportation system that 

facilitates commerce and secures 

national security interests. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted to 

the online docket via https://

www.regulations.gov on or before 

October 6, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2021–0233 using the Federal 

eRulemaking 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 Mr. Tim Brown, Coast Guard; 

telephone 202–372–2358, email 

Timothy.M.Brown@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation and Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments (or related material) 

responding to this request for 

information. We will consider all 

submissions and may adjust agency 

policy based on your input. If you 

submit a comment, please include the 

docket number for this notice, indicate 

the specific section of this document to 

which each comment applies, and 

provide a reason for each suggestion or 

recommendation. 

Methods for submitting comments. 

We encourage you to submit comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at https://www.regulations.gov. To do 

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

type USCG–2021–0233 in the search 

box and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, look for 

this document in the Search Results 

column, and click on it. Then click on 

the Comment option. 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. Public comments 

will be in our online docket at https:// 

www.regulations.gov and can be viewed 

by following that website’s instructions 

provided on its Frequently Asked 

Questions page. We review all material 

received, but we may choose not to post 

off-topic, inappropriate, or duplicate 

comments that we receive. 

Personal information. We accept 

anonymous submissions. 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). 

II. Background 

The Coast Guard is issuing this 

request for information in response to 

Executive Orders 13990 and 14008, 

which have established the protection of 

public health and the environment, the 

mitigation of climate change, and the 

advancement of environmental justice 

as policy priorities for this 

Administration. Executive Order 13990, 

Protecting Public Health and the 

Environment and Restoring Science To 

Tackle the Climate Crisis,1 states that 

the Administration’s policy is to listen 

to science; to ensure access to clean air 

and water; to limit exposure to 

dangerous chemicals and pesticides; to 

hold polluters accountable, including 

those that disproportionately harm 

communities of color and low-income 

communities; to reduce greenhouse gas 

emissions; to bolster resilience to the 

impacts of climate change; to restore 

and expand our national treasures and 

monuments; and to prioritize both 

environmental justice and the creation 

of the well-paying union jobs necessary 

to deliver on these goals. The Order 

directs agencies to seek input from the 

public and stakeholders, including 

State, local, Tribal, and territorial 

officials, scientists, labor unions, 

environmental advocates, and 

environmental justice organizations. 

The Order directs agencies 

immediately to review all regulations, 

orders, guidance documents, policies, or 

any other similar agency actions 

undertaken between January 20, 2017, 

and January 20, 2021, that are 

inconsistent with the listed policy 

priorities. In addition, agencies are 

directed to contemplate and consider 

whether to take any additional agency 

actions, within their authority, to fully 

enforce the listed policy priorities. 

Executive Order 14008, Tackling the 

Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,2

further places the climate crisis at the 

center of U.S. foreign policy and 

national security by deploying the full 

capacity of its agencies to combat the 

climate crisis, by implementing a 

Government-wide approach that 

reduces climate pollution in every 

sector of the economy; by increasing 

resilience to the impacts of climate 

change; by protecting public health; by 

conserving our lands, waters, and 

biodiversity; by delivering 

environmental justice; and by spurring 


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3 76 FR 3821 (published Jan. 21, 2011). 

4A general list of Coast Guard authorities can be 

found online at https://www.uscg.mil/readings/ 

Article/1548177/authorities/#:∼:text=The%20Coast

%20Guard%20may%20board,suppression%20of

%20violations%20of%20U.S. 

well-paying jobs and economic growth, 

especially through innovation, 

commercialization, and deployment of 

clean energy technologies and 

infrastructure. The Order states that 

successfully meeting these challenges 

will require the Federal Government to 

pursue a coordinated approach from 

planning to implementation, coupled 

with substantive engagement by 

stakeholders, including State, local, and 

Tribal governments. 

This request for information is also 

consistent with Executive Order 13563, 

Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,3 which calls for a regulatory 

system that is based on the best 

available science and protects public 

health, welfare, safety, and our 

environment while promoting economic 

growth, innovation, competitiveness, 

and job creation. The Executive Order 

directs agencies to consider how best to 

promote retrospective analysis of rules 

that may be outmoded, ineffective, 

insufficient, or excessively burdensome, 

and to modify, streamline, expand, or 

repeal them in accordance with what 

has been learned. Executive Order 

13563 is affirmed in the President’s 

Memorandum of January 20, 2021, 

Modernizing Regulatory Review. The 

Coast Guard seeks this input 

recognizing the importance of 

reevaluating programs to reduce 

unnecessary barriers to effectiveness, 

adapt to new technologies, and ensure 

mission resiliency when combating and 

responding to climate change. 

III. Coast Guard Missions and 

Authorities 

The Coast Guard seeks input on how 

best to use the Coast Guard’s statutory 

authorities to implement these orders 

and to reduce the risks associated with 

climate change. Many of the Coast 

Guard’s missions are identified in brief 

at 6 U.S.C. 468. All of these missions 

contribute to the facilitation of safe, 

secure, and environmentally responsible 

commerce through our stewardship of 

the marine transportation system. These 

missions include marine safety; search 

and rescue; aids to navigation; living 

marine resources (fisheries law 

enforcement); marine environmental 

protection; ice operations; ports, 

waterways and coastal security; drug 

interdiction; migrant interdiction; 

defense readiness; and other law 

enforcement. 

These authorities are connected, of 

course, with the risks associated with 

climate change. The Coast Guard also 

has important responsibilities in 

acquiring scientific information, 

including information involving the 

effects of climate change, and in issuing 

regulations. While the Coast Guard 

holds a wide range of regulatory and 

operational authorities to fulfill these 

missions, the Coast Guard frequently 

shares responsibility for these missions 

with other agencies.4 In some cases the 

Coast Guard has the authority to revise 

regulations, guidelines, policies, or 

processes to address particular problems 

in particular ways; in other cases the 

Coast Guard may be unable to act 

without the assistance of another 

agency, or may be unable to act at all. 

Commenters are therefore encouraged to 

focus comments on matters within the 

Coast Guard’s authorities, to the extent 

known to the commenter. 

Location of Coast Guard Regulations 

Coast Guard regulations fall within 

three general categories in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR)—navigation 

and navigable waters, shipping, and 

transportation. Below are the three 

corresponding titles in the CFR (and the 

parts in those titles) where you will find 

our regulations: 

• 33 CFR Chapter I (parts 1 through 

199), 

• 46 CFR Chapters I (parts 1 through 

199) and III (parts 400 through 499), and 

• 49 CFR Chapter IV (parts 400 

through 499). 

You can view these regulations on 

https://www.govinfo.gov/ or https://

www.ecfr.gov. 

In the CFR, you will find bracketed 

references to rules published in the 

Federal Register (for example, xx FR 

xxxx, date). The Federal Register 

publications differ from the CFR in that 

that, through the preamble language, we 

fully explain our reasoning for 

establishing the regulations in that CFR 

part or section and our estimates of the 

costs and benefits of those regulations. 

Rules published since at least 1990 will 

be available in the Federal Register 

library on https://www.govinfo.gov/. 

Our rulemaking documents published 

in the Federal Register also include a 

number that identifies our online 

docket. On https://www.regulations.gov, 

using that docket number, you should 

be able to find supporting and related 

material we provided for that rule, 

including a cost-benefit analysis. In our 

dockets, you will also find notices of 

proposed rulemaking and submissions 

from interested persons who 

commented on our initial proposal for 

the regulations that appear in the final 

rule. The preamble of the final rule 

contains our responses to those 

comments. 

Location of Coast Guard Guidance 

Documents 

You can find Coast Guard guidance 

documents online via https://

www.uscg.mil/guidance. Guidance 

documents include Navigation and 

Vessel Inspection Circulars (NVICs), 

policy letters, bulletins, handbooks, and 

other items meant to inform the public. 

On this site, guidance documents are 

categorized by the Coast Guard office 

that issued and maintains the 

documents. 

IV. Request for Information 

The Coast Guard seeks public 

comments and suggestions on actions 

we can take, within our statutory 

authority, to combat and respond to 

climate change. As noted above, our 

mission areas encompass maritime 

operations, safety, security, 

environmental stewardship, and 

facilitation of the maritime commerce 

that contributes so crucially to a vibrant 

U.S. economy. 

The actions we might take could 

include revising current regulations, 

guidelines, policies, or processes that 

unjustifiably impede or fail to support 

the development and use of 

technologies and best practices to 

combat or respond to climate change in 

the marine transportation system. We 

might also orient our efforts to acquire 

and disseminate information about the 

effects of climate change in particular 

ways (for example, through use of 

data.gov). 

When considering your comments 

and suggestions, we ask that you keep 

in mind our missions to ensure a safe, 

secure, and resilient marine 

transportation system that facilitates 

commerce and secures national security 

interests. Commenters should consider 

the below principles as they answer and 

respond to the questions in this notice. 

• Commenters should identify, with 

specificity, the program, regulation, or 

policy at issue, providing the Code of 

Federal Regulation (CFR) citation where 

appropriate. 

• Commentators should identify, with 

specificity, small or large reforms that 

might be justified in light of the risks 

posed by climate change, whether those 

reforms involve preparedness, 

mitigation, adaptation, resilience, or 

other steps to reduce suffering. 

• Commenters should provide, in as 

much detail as possible, an explanation 

why a program, regulation, or policy 

should be modified, streamlined, 

expanded, or repealed, as well as 


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specific suggestions of ways the agency 

can better achieve its statutory and 

regulatory objectives in light of the 

executive orders cited. 

• Commenters should provide 

specific data that document the costs, 

burdens, and benefits of existing 

requirements or programs or proposed 

changes to them, to the extent they are 

available. 

The following questions might help 

guide your comments and suggestions. 

Given the Coast Guard’s current 

missions and statutory authority: 

1. Do you have suggestions for 

changes to our current programs, 

regulations, or policies that would 

combat climate change or bolster 

resilience to the impacts of climate 

change or adapt to its impacts, such as 

sea level rise? 

2. What do you think the primary 

implications of climate change are for 

our mission areas? 

3. How will climate change affect 

Coast Guard programs, missions, 

regulations, and policies in the future? 

4. How might the Coast Guard orient 

or re-orient its efforts to acquire 

information about the effects of climate 

change, and how might it best 

disseminate that information? 

5. How do you think the Coast Guard 

can advance the objectives of 

environmental justice? 

6. Are you aware of any new or 

emerging technologies appropriate for 

use in maritime facilities or other 

industry assets that we should consider 

when exploring alternatives to address 

climate change? 

7. Which Coast Guard mission areas 

do you think are most likely to be 

affected by climate change? How would 

they be affected? 

8. What do you think are the most 

crucial challenges we will face to 

address climate change in our programs, 

missions, regulations, and policies? 

9. Do our existing regulations 

unjustifiably impede or fail to support 

the development and use of 

technologies or best practices that 

would help us address climate change? 

10. Are our regulations restrictive on 

the use of alternative fuels that produce 

fewer harmful emissions? If so, how? 

What, specifically, might we do to 

reduce greenhouse gas emissions? 

11. Do our current polices, such as 

NVICs or other guidance documents, 

impede or fail to support the 

development and use of technologies or 

best practices to address climate 

change? If so, how? 

12. Is the process of requesting a 

determination of equivalency to use an 

alternative approach to regulatory 

requirements that might address climate 

change burdensome? 

13. What regulatory, policy, or other 

incentives could the Coast Guard 

provide to encourage development and 

use of technologies or best practices in 

the marine transportation system to 

combat and respond to climate change? 

14. Are there current Coast Guard 

regulations, guidance, policies, or 

processes that contribute to climate 

change? If so, please explain which ones 

and how. 

15. What sources of existing data or 

studies can Coast Guard use to evaluate 

the economic impact—positive or 

negative—from reducing the 

environmental footprint of USCG 

programs, regulations, or policies with 

regards to climate change? 

16. What do you expect would be the 

positive or negative environmental 

results of the Coast Guard addressing 

climate change in the maritime domain, 

particularly in sensitive areas such as 

the Arctic and U.S. coastal zones? 

17. Are there Coast Guard programs, 

regulations, or policies that do not 

bolster resilience to the impacts of 

climate change, particularly for those 

disproportionately impacted by climate 

change, and, if so, what are they? How 

can those programs, regulations, or 

policies be modified, expanded, 

streamlined, or repealed to bolster 

resilience to the impacts of climate 

change? 

18. Do you have any suggestions for 

any changes to the Coast Guard’s Arctic 

strategy or any Coast Guard Arctic 

programs, such as ice breaking, 

mapping, and charting missions that 

might bolster the Coast Guard’s ability 

to combat and respond to climate 

change? 

In addition to these general questions, 

the Coast Guard seeks any other input 

on the programs and missions described 

above that allows the Coast Guard, 

within our statutory authorities, to 

combat or respond to the climate crisis 

and adapt to its impacts on the maritime 

domain. This request for information is 

used solely for information gathering 

purposes and the responses to this RFI 

do not bind the Coast Guard to any 

further actions related to the response. 

Dated: June 25, 2021. 

J.W. Mauger, 

Rear Admiral, US Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Prevention Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2020–0016] 

Meetings To Implement Pandemic 

Response Voluntary Agreement Under 

Section 708 of the Defense Production 

Act 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: Announcement of meetings; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) published 

a document in the Federal Register of 

July 2, 2021, concerning an 

announcement of meetings to 

implement the Voluntary Agreement for 

the Manufacture and Distribution of 

Critical Healthcare Resources Necessary 

to Respond to a Pandemic. The 

document incorrectly listed certain 

meetings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Glenn, Office of Business, 

Industry, Infrastructure Integration, via 

email at OB3I@fema.dhs.gov or via 

phone at (202) 212–1666. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of July 2, 

2021, in FR Doc. 2021–14251 on page 

35309, in the second column, correct 

the DATES caption to read: 

DATES: The schedule for these meetings 

is as follows: 

• The first meeting took place on 

Tuesday, June 22, 2021, from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET). 

• The second meeting took place on 

Wednesday, June 23, 2021, from 11 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. ET. 

• The third meeting will take place 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, from 11 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. ET. 

• The fourth meeting will take place 

on Thursday, July 22, 2021, from 2 to 4 

p.m. ET. 

• The fifth meeting will take place on 

Tuesday, August 3, 2021, from 11 a.m. 

to 1 p.m. ET. 

• The sixth meeting will take place 

on Thursday, August 5, 2021, from 2 to 

4 p.m. ET. 

Dated: July 2, 2021. 

Shabnaum Q. Amjad, 

Acting Associate Chief Counsel, Regulatory 

Affairs Division, Office of Chief Counsel, 

Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

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