[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 37 (Monday, February 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10042-10043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 08-842]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2007-0142]


Notification of the Imposition of Conditions of Entry for Certain 
Vessels Arriving to the United States; Indonesia

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces that effective anti-terrorism 
measures are not in place in certain ports of Indonesia and that it 
will impose conditions of entry on vessels arriving from that country.

DATES: The policy announced in this notice will become effective March 
10, 2008.

ADDRESSES: This notice will be available for inspection and copying at 
the Docket Management Facility at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Room W12-140 on the Ground Floor of the West Building, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone 
number is 202-366-9329.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call Mr. Michael Brown, International Port Security Evaluation 
Division, Coast Guard, telephone 202-372-1081. 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: 

Background and Purpose

    Section 70110 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 
(Pub. L. 107-295, Nov. 25, 2002) provides that the Secretary of 
Homeland Security may impose conditions of entry on vessels requesting 
entry into the United States arriving from ports that are not 
maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. The Coast Guard has been 
delegated the authority by the Secretary to carry out the provisions of 
this section. The Docket contains previous notices imposing or removing 
conditions of entry on vessels arriving from certain countries and 
those conditions of entry and the countries they pertain to remain in 
effect unless modified by this notice.
    The Coast Guard has determined that ports in Indonesia, with 
certain exceptions, are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism 
measures. Accordingly, effective March 10, 2008, Coast Guard will 
impose the following conditions of entry on vessels that visited ports 
in Indonesia with the exception of PT Terminal Petikemas Surabaya, 
Banjarmasin Port, PT Pertamina Unit Pemasaran III Jakarta, Pertamina 
Unit Pengolahan V Balikpapan, Senipah Terminal Total E&P Indonesia 
Balikpapan, Caltex Oil Terminal Dumai, Pelindo II Conventional Terminal 
Jakarta, Jakarta International Container Terminal, PT Pupuk Kaltim 
Bontang, PT Badak Bontang, PT Indominco Mandiri Bontang, Pertamina Unit 
Pengolahan II Dumai, PT Pelabuhan Indonesia I Cabang Dumai, Semarang 
International Container Terminal, Belawan Multi-Purpose Terminal and PT 
Multimas Nabati Asahan during their last five port calls. Vessels must:
    <bullet> Implement measures per the ship's security plan equivalent 
to Security Level 2;
    <bullet> Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded and 
that the guards have total visibility of the exterior (both landside 
and waterside) of the ship while the ship is in an Indonesian port 
other than those specified above. Guards may be provided by the ship's 
crew, however additional crewmembers should be placed on the ship if 
necessary to ensure that limits on maximum hours of work are not 
exceeded and/or minimum hours of rest are met, or provided by outside 
security forces approved by the ship's master and Company Security 
Officer;
    <bullet> Attempt to execute a Declaration of Security;
    <bullet> Log all security actions in the ship's log;
    <bullet> Report actions taken to the cognizant U.S. Coast Guard 
Captain of

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the Port prior to arrival into U.S. waters; and
    <bullet> Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded by 
armed, private security guards and that they have total visibility of 
the exterior (both landside and waterside) of the ship while in U.S. 
ports. The number and position of the guards has to be acceptable to 
the cognizant Coast Guard Captain of the Port prior to the vessel's 
arrival.
    With this notice, the current list of countries not maintaining 
effective anti-terrorism measures is as follows: Indonesia, Cameroon, 
Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Mauritania.

    Dated: February 18, 2008.
Rear Admiral David Pekoske,
USCG Assistant Commandant For Operations.
[FR Doc. 08-842 Filed 2-21-08; 10:57 am]
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