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intended service of the vessel 

PROTECTOR is: 

—Intended Commercial Use of Vessel: 

‘‘We operate wildlife viewing and 

whale watching tours from San Juan 

Island, Washington. We would like to 

replace our existing 6 passenger 

vessel with this vessel. Our tours are 

day tours between 3 hours and 6 

hours in length in the inland waters.’’ 

—Geographic Region Including Base of 

Operations: ‘‘Washington.’’ (Base of 

Operations: Friday Harbor, WA) 

—Vessel Length and Type: 28′ Motor 

The complete application is available 

for review identified in the DOT docket 

as MARAD 2022–0122 at http://

www.regulations.gov. 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, in 

accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and 

MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part 

388, that the employment of the vessel 

in the coastwise trade to carry no more 

than 12 passengers will have an unduly 

adverse effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or 

a business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in 

that business, MARAD will not issue an 

approval of the vessel’s coastwise 

endorsement eligibility. Comments 

should refer to the vessel name, state the 

commenter’s interest in the application, 

and address the eligibility criteria given 

in section 388.4 of MARAD’s 

regulations at 46 CFR part 388. 

Public Participation 

How do I submit comments? 

Please submit your comments, 

including the attachments, following the 

instructions provided under the above 

heading entitled ADDRESSES. Be advised 

that it may take a few hours or even 

days for your comment to be reflected 

on the docket. In addition, your 

comments must be written in English. 

We encourage you to provide concise 

comments and you may attach 

additional documents as necessary. 

There is no limit on the length of the 

attachments. 

Where do I go to read public comments, 

and find supporting information? 

Go to the docket online at http://

www.regulations.gov, keyword search 

MARAD–2022–0122 or visit the Docket 

Management Facility (see ADDRESSES for 

hours of operation). We recommend that 

you periodically check the Docket for 

new submissions and supporting 

material. 

Will my comments be made available to 

the public? 

Yes. Be aware that your entire 

comment, including your personal 

identifying information, will be made 

publicly available. 

May I submit comments confidentially? 

If you wish to submit comments 

under a claim of confidentiality, you 

should submit the information you 

claim to be confidential commercial 

information by email to SmallVessels@

dot.gov. Include in the email subject 

heading ‘‘Contains Confidential 

Commercial Information’’ or ‘‘Contains 

CCI’’ and state in your submission, with 

specificity, the basis for any such 

confidential claim highlighting or 

denoting the CCI portions. If possible, 

please provide a summary of your 

submission that can be made available 

to the public. 

In the event MARAD receives a 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

request for the information, procedures 

described in the Department’s FOIA 

regulation at 49 CFR 7.29 will be 

followed. Only information that is 

ultimately determined to be confidential 

under those procedures will be exempt 

from disclosure under FOIA. 

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.). For information on DOT’s 

compliance with the Privacy Act, please 

visit https://www.transportation.gov/ 

privacy. 

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 U.S.C. 55103, 

46 U.S.C. 12121) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13901 Filed 6–28–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket Number MARAD–2022–0119] 

Request for Comments on the Renewal 

of a Previously Approved Information 

Collection: Mariner Cadet TrainingAgreements, Compliance Reporting, 

and Audits 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) invites public comments on 

our intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a currently approved 

emergency information collection. 

Before a Federal agency can collect 

certain information from the public, it 

must receive approval from OMB. 

Under procedures established by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before seeking OMB approval, Federal 

agencies must solicit public comment 

on proposed collection of information, 

including extensions and reinstatements 

of previously approved collections. A 

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

the following information collection 

was published on April 29, 2022. This 

document described a collection of 

information for which MARAD intends 

to seek OMB approval. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket Number 

MARAD–2022–0119 by any one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Search 

MARAD–2022–0119 and follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: The Docket 

Management Facility is in the West 

Building, Ground Floor of the U.S. 

Department of Transportation. The 

Docket Management Facility location 

address is: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, MARAD–2022–0119, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 

Building, Room W12–140, Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except on 

Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this rulemaking. 

Note: All comments received will be 

posted without change to 

www.regulations.gov including any personal 

information provided. 

Comments are invited on: (a) whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the Department’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for the 

Department to enhance the quality, 

utility and clarity of the information 

collection; and (d) ways that the burden 

could be minimized without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 


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38818 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 / Notices 

Electronic Access and Filing 

A copy of the notice may be viewed 

online at www.regulations.gov using the 

docket number listed above. A copy of 

this notice will be placed in the docket. 

Electronic retrieval help and guidelines 

are available on the website. It is 

available 24 hours each day, 365 days 

each year. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

website at www.FederalRegister.gov and 

the Government Publishing Office’s 

website at www.GovInfo.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Wahler, Director of Maritime 

Labor and Training, (202) 366–5469 or 

via email at EMBARC@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Mariner Cadet TrainingAgreements, Compliance Reporting, and 

Audits. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0553. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection. 

Abstract: In accordance with its 

delegation of authority at 49 CFR 

1.93(a), and pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 

50101(a)(4), the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD) is charged 

with ensuring that the United States 

Merchant Marine is manned with 

trained and efficient citizen personnel. 

Furthermore, 46 U.S.C. 51322 requires 

MARAD to protect cadet mariners from 

sexual assault onboard vessels and in so 

doing, to set sexual assault policy and 

to conduct random and targeted 

unannounced checks of commercial 

vessels. 

MARAD needs to obtain information 

from commercial vessel operators in 

order to meet its statutory objective of 

setting sexual assault policy and 

monitoring compliance that is essential 

to meeting its mission of ensuring a 

well-trained U.S. Merchant Marine. 

The Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) requests comment on 

MARAD’s intention to seek approval 

from OMB to reinstate without 

modification a previously approved 

collection of information concerning 

vessel operator acceptance of MARAD 

safety and security tenets, compliance 

reporting and compliance assessment 

requirements. MARAD, in consultation 

with operators of commercial vessels of 

the United States, established criteria 

that vessel operators must meet in order 

to participate in the Sea Year program 

of the United States Merchant Marine 

Academy (USMMA) that address sexual 

harassment, sexual assault, and other 

inappropriate conduct; and a process for 

verifying compliance with the criteria. 

Accordingly, on December 15, 2021, 

MARAD published on its website 

agency guidance entitled Every Mariner 

Builds a Respectful Culture (EMBARC). 

Embedded within EMBARC is a process 

that MARAD will use to verify 

compliance. The EMBARC Standards 

enumerate new sexual assault and 

sexual harassment (SASH) prevention 

and response safety measures that 

MARAD requires commercial vessel 

operators to meet before they are 

approved to carry cadets from the 

USMMA for training purposes. Along 

with the EMBARC Standards, MARAD 

also published a self-assessment 

checklist, and a statement of compliance 

that vessel operators are required to 

submit prior to Sea Year participation. 

The EMBARC Standards include 

immediate, intermediate and long-term 

action items that all vessel operators 

providing training platforms for cadet 

mariners should implement. The totality 

of these efforts will help strengthen the 

maritime industry’s efforts to prevent 

and respond to incidents of sexual 

violence and sexual harassment and 

other forms of misconduct and help 

ensure a safer training environment for 

all cadets. 

The information to be collected will 

be used by MARAD to confirm the 

acceptance of MARAD sexual assault 

policies by commercial vessel operators 

and it will help establish a process to 

oversee and monitor continued 

compliance through reporting and 

auditing of commercial vessel operators 

in this initial enrollment and 

subsequent Sea Years. 

Respondents: Vessel Owners and 

Operators. 

Affected Public: Captains, Mates, 

Chief Operating Officers, Chief 

Executive Officers, Operations 

Managers, Clerical and typists. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 35 

per collection.* 

Estimated Number of Responses: 428. 

Estimated Hours per Response: 2–6. 

Annual Estimated Total Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,615. 

Frequency of Response: 2 per year. 

* Some respondents will have to 

respond more than once. 

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended; and 

49 CFR 1.93.) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13890 Filed 6–28–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD–2022–0127] 

Coastwise Endorsement Eligibility 

Determination for a Foreign-Built 

Vessel: WINDWARD’S CAT (Sail); 

Invitation for Public Comments 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of 

Transportation, as represented by the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD), is 

authorized to issue coastwise 

endorsement eligibility determinations 

for foreign-built vessels which will carry 

no more than twelve passengers for hire. 

A request for such a determination has 

been received by MARAD. By this 

notice, MARAD seeks comments from 

interested parties as to any effect this 

action may have on U.S. vessel builders 

or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- 

flag vessels. Information about the 

requestor’s vessel, including a brief 

description of the proposed service, is 

listed below. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

July 29, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket Number 

MARAD–2022–0127 by any one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov. Search 

MARAD–2022–0127 and follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket 

Management Facility is in the West 

Building, Ground Floor of the U.S. 

Department of Transportation. The 

Docket Management Facility location 

address is: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, MARAD–2022–0127, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 

Building, Room W12–140, Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except on 

Federal holidays. 

Note: If you mail or hand-deliver your 

comments, 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. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

specific docket number. All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to the docket at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments, or to submit 


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