33296 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 120 / Thursday, June 21, 2001 / Notices

Issued in Renton, Washington on June 15,

2001.

David A. Field,

Manager, Planning, Programming and

Capacity Branch, Northwest Mountain

Region.

[FR Doc. 01–15609 Filed 6–20–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket Number: MARAD–2001–9948]

Requested Administrative Waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws

AGENCY: Maritime Administration,

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Invitation for public comments

on a requested administrative waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel

AMBUSH.

SUMMARY: As authorized by Pub. L. 105–

383, the Secretary of Transportation, as

represented by the Maritime

Administration (MARAD), is authorized

to grant waivers of the U.S.-build

requirement of the coastwise laws under

certain circumstances. A request for

such a waiver has been received by

MARAD. The vessel, and a description

of the proposed service, is listed below.

Interested parties may comment on the

effect this action may have on U.S.-

vessel builders or businesses in the U.S.

that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD

determines that in accordance with Pub.

L. 105–383 and MARAD’s regulations at

46 CFR part 388 (65 FR 6905; February

11, 2000) that the issuance of the waiver

will have an unduly adverse effect on a

U.S.-vessel builder or a business that

uses U.S.-flag vessels, a waiver will not

be granted.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

July 23, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to

docket number MARAD–2001–9948.

Written comments may be submitted by

hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401,

Department of Transportation, 400 7th

St., SW., Washington, DC. 20590–0001.

You may also send comments

electronically via the Internet at http://

dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments

will become part of this docket and will

be available for inspection and copying

at the above address between 10 a.m.

and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through

Friday, except federal holidays. An

electronic version of this document and

all documents entered into this docket

is available on the World Wide Web at

http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathleen Dunn, U.S. Department of

Transportation, Maritime

Administration, MAR–832 Room 7201,

400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–2307.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title V of

Pub. L. 105–383 provides authority to

the Secretary of Transportation to

administratively waive the U.S.-build

requirements of the Jones Act, and other

statutes, for small commercial passenger

vessels (no more than 12 passengers).

This authority has been delegated to the

Maritime Administration per 49 CFR

1.66, Delegations to the Maritime

Administrator, as amended. By this

notice, MARAD is publishing

information on a vessel for which a

request for a U.S.-build waiver has been

received, and for which MARAD

requests comments from interested

parties. Comments should refer to the

docket number of this notice and the

vessel name in order for MARAD to

properly consider the comments.

Comments should also state the

commenter’s interest in the waiver

application, and address the waiver

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s

regulations at 46 CFR part 388.

Vessel Proposed for Waiver of the U.S.-

build Requirement

(1) Name of vessel and owner for

which waiver is requested. Name of

vessel: AMBUSH. Owner: Edward G.

Patenaude.

(2) Size, capacity and tonnage of

vessel. According to the applicant:

‘‘Length: 40′ Breadth: 13.2′ Depth: 6′

Capacity: 6 or fewer passengers Gross

Tonnage: 21 Net Tonnage: 16.′′

(3) Intended use for vessel, including

geographic region of intended operation

and trade. According to the applicant:

‘‘Sport fishing charters with six or fewer

passengers. All contiguous U.S. coastal

waters, excluding Alaskan waters.’’

(4) Date and Place of construction and

(if applicable) rebuilding. Date of

construction: 1997. Place of

construction: San Jose, Costa Rica.

(5) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on other commercial

passenger vessel operators. According to

the applicant: ‘‘This waiver will have

little or no impact. This vessel will carry

six or fewer passengers on either full

day or one-half day trips. This

represents an extremely small

percentage of the sport fishing charter

business.’’

(6) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on U.S. shipyards.

According to the applicant:

‘‘None. * * * Allowing this relatively

small vessel to engage in sport fishing

charters will not affect demand for boats

from U.S. shipyards.’’

Dated: June 18, 2001.

By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

Joel C. Richard,

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–15641 Filed 6–20–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket Number: MARAD–2001–9949]

Requested Administrative Waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws

AGENCY: Maritime Administration,

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Invitation for public comments

on a requested administrative waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel

CHALLENGE BUSINESS 28.

SUMMARY: As authorized by Pub. L. 105–

383, the Secretary of Transportation, as

represented by the Maritime

Administration (MARAD), is authorized

to grant waivers of the U.S.-build

requirement of the coastwise laws under

certain circumstances. A request for

such a waiver has been received by

MARAD. The vessel, and a description

of the proposed service, is listed below.

Interested parties may comment on the

effect this action may have on U.S.-

vessel builders or businesses in the U.S.

that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD

determines that in accordance with Pub.

L. 105–383 and MARAD’s regulations at

46 CFR part 388 (65 FR 6905; February

11, 2000) that the issuance of the waiver

will have an unduly adverse effect on a

U.S.-vessel builder or a business that

uses U.S.-flag vessels, a waiver will not

be granted.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

July 23, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to

docket number MARAD–2001–9949.

Written comments may be submitted by

hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401,

Department of Transportation, 400 7th

St., SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001.

You may also send comments

electronically via the Internet at http://

dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments

will become part of this docket and will

be available for inspection and copying

at the above address between 10 a.m.

and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through

Friday, except federal holidays. An

electronic version of this document and

all documents entered into this docket

is available on the World Wide Web at

http://dms.dot.gov.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathleen Dunn, U.S. Department of

Transportation, Maritime

Administration, MAR–832 Room 7201,

400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–2307.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title V of

Pub. L. 105–383 provides authority to

the Secretary of Transportation to

administratively waive the U.S.-build

requirements of the Jones Act, and other

statutes, for small commercial passenger

vessels (no more than 12 passengers).

This authority has been delegated to the

Maritime Administration per 49 CFR

§ 1.66, Delegations to the Maritime

Administrator, as amended. By this

notice, MARAD is publishing

information on a vessel for which a

request for a U.S.-build waiver has been

received, and for which MARAD

requests comments from interested

parties. Comments should refer to the

docket number of this notice and the

vessel name in order for MARAD to

properly consider the comments.

Comments should also state the

commenter’s interest in the waiver

application, and address the waiver

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’S

regulations at 46 CFR part 388.

Vessel Proposed for Waiver of the U.S.-

build Requirement

(1) Name of vessel and owner for

which waiver is requested. Name of

vessel: CHALLENGE BUSINESS 28.

Owner: Challenge Business, Ltd.

(2) Size, capacity and tonnage of

vessel. According to the applicant:

‘‘66.24′ long, has a breadth of 17.32′ and

a depth of 8.6′. Under our Simplified

Admeasurement Rules, (46 CFR part

69), the yacht has a gross tonnage of

46.2 and a net tonnage of 41.62.

(3) Intended use for vessel, including

geographic region of intended operation

and trade. According to the applicant:

‘‘The yacht will be used to generate

interest in sailing boats of this type

around the world in a race called the

New World Challenge 2002. Ordinary

people, from all walks of life, will

become members of the crew on 10

newer, slightly larger boats that will sail

from the United Kingdom to Boston,

MA, then New York, Buenos Aires,

Argentina, around Cape Horn to Chile,

San Diego and finally to San Francisco.

The interest, love and excitement of

sailing such boats, in difficult

conditions, over a period of

approximately 10 months, will be

supported by a number of corporate

sponsors who expect to benefit from the

team building aspect of the race and the

publicity that the race will generate. To

foster interest in the race among

potential sponsors and supporters of the

race, the yacht will be used as an

information and training platform. The

owner intends to take members of the

press, and other media, on the boat to

experience what it will be like to sail a

boat of this type in this race. Similarly,

the owner wishes to take potential and

actual sponsors and supporters of the

race on the boat for the same purpose.

None of the press, media, and

supporters will be asked to pay anything

for sailing aboard this yacht. But, we

have been advised that unless the boats

sail ‘‘voyages to nowhere’’ (i.e. three

miles from port and back again), that

some of these activities would be

violative of U.S. coastwise laws. This

yacht will be based in Boston, MA, and

may be sailed anywhere along the East

Coast of North America.’’

(4) Date and Place of construction and

(if applicable) rebuilding. Date of

construction: 1992. Place of

construction: United Kingdom.

(5) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on other commercial

passenger vessel operators. According to

the applicant: ‘‘This activity will have

absolutely no impact on the operations

of any commercial passenger operations.

This boat had been used in another,

similar race promoted by Challenge

Business. The yacht is very similar in

size, design, sail area and handling

characteristics to the 10 boats that will

be competing in the race. Thus, it is one

of the most representative, and one of

the few ‘‘experienced’’, boats and could

be used for the intended purpose.

Further, this boat and the others

employed in the Challenge Business

race are very unique. This project brings

together ordinary people, the corporate

and non-profit communities, and fully

involves them in sailing one-designboats in a sailing experience that is not

duplicated anywhere in the world. No

existing commercial vessel operated by

anyone else can fill this role.’’

(6) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on U.S. shipyards.

According to the applicant: ‘‘Similarly,

the proposed activity will have

absolutely no impact on U.S. shipyards.

This yacht is uniquely valuable in that

it has been raced under similar

conditions, in a similar race while

manned by individuals who had little,

if any, sailing experience, before sailing

aboard such a yacht. This yacht most

accurately represents the look, feel and

impact that the 10 yachts in the race

will have on the sailors, media, press,

sponsors and supporters. Given its

historical connection to a similar race,

no newly built U.S. yacht could preform

the proposed activity. Further, we are

not aware of any similar yachts

currently under construction in the

U.S.’’

Dated: June 18, 2001.

By order of the Maritime Administrator.

Joel C. Richard,

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–15640 Filed 6–20–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Notice of Public Meeting and Request

for Comments To Address the

Development of a Booster Seat

Education Plan; Correction

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, Department of

Transportation.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration published a

document in the Federal Register of

June 6, 2001, concerning notice of

public meeting and request for

comments to address the development

of a booster seat education plan. The

document was incorrectly published as

a Proposed Rule. It should have been

published as a Notice because it will not

lead to Rulemaking. The document also

contained incorrect dates.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Tami Levitas, NHTSA, 202–366–0652.

Correction

1. In the Federal Register of June 6,

2001, in (66 FR 30366) (Docket NHTSA–

01–9785), on page 30367, in the first

column, second paragraph, correct the

‘‘Dates’’ caption to read:

DATES: * * * Written Comments:

Written requests to speak at the public

meeting and/or suggestions for items to

be included in the meeting agenda,

should be received at Docket

Management at the below address no

later than July 3, 2001. Comments to be

submitted for the public record should

be received at Docket Management at

the below address no later than July 13,

2001.

2. In the Federal Register of June 6,

2001, in (66 FR 30366) (Docket NHTSA–

01–9785), on page 30367, correct the

third column, paragraph after question

12, first sentence, of the

‘‘Supplementary Information’’ caption

to read:

If you wish to make a presentation at

the meeting, please contact Tami Levitas

at the above mailing address or

telephone number by July 3, 2001.