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Information Collection Report (ICR)

abstracted below to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs

(OIRA) of the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for review and comment.

Our ICR describes the information we

seek to collect from the public. Review

and comment by OIRA ensures that we

impose only paperwork burdens

commensurate with our performance of

duties.

DATES: Please submit comments on or

before January 16, 2002.

ADDRESSES: To make sure that your

comments and related material do not

enter the docket [USCG 2001–10613]

more than once, please submit them by

only one of the following means:

(1)(a) By mail to the Docket

Management Facility, U.S. Department

of Transportation, room PL–401, 400

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC

20590–0001. (b) OIRA, 725 17th Street

NW., Washington, DC 20503, to the

attention of the Desk Officer for the

Coast Guard. Caution: Because of recent

delays in the delivery of mail, your

comments may reach the Facility more

quickly if you choose one of the other

means described below.

(2)(a) By delivery to room PL–401 at

the address given in paragraph (1)(a),

next above, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, except Federal

holidays. The telephone number is 202–

366–9329. (b) OIRA, at the address

given in paragraph (1)(b), next above, to

the attention of the Desk Officer for the

Coast Guard.

(3) By fax to (a) the Docket

Management Facility at 202–493–2251

or (b) OIRA 202–395–7285, attention:

Desk Officer for the Coast Guard.

(4)(a) Electronically through the Web

Site for the Docket Management System

at http://dms.dot.gov. (b) OIRA does not

have a website on which you can post

your comments.

The Docket Management Facility

maintains the public docket for this

notice. Comments and material received

from the public, as well as documents

mentioned in this notice as being

available in the docket, will become part

of this docket and will be available for

inspection or copying at room PL–401

(Plaza level), 400 Seventh Street SW.,

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5

p.m., Monday through Friday, except

Federal holidays. You may also find this

docket on the Internet at http://

dms.dot.gov.

Copies of the complete ICR are

available for inspection and copying in

public dockets. A copy of it is available

in docket USCG 2001–10613 of the

Docket Management Facility between 10

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through

Friday, except Federal holidays; for

inspection and printing on the internet

at http://dms.dot.gov; and for inspection

from the Commandant (G–CIM–2), U.S.

Coast Guard, room 6106, 2100 Second

Street SW, Washington, DC, between 10

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through

Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barbara Davis, Office of Information

Management, 202–267–2326, for

questions on this document; Dorothy

Beard, Chief, Documentary Services

Division, U.S. Department of

Transportation, 202–366–5149, for

questions on the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Regulatory History

This request constitutes the 30-day

notice required by OIRA. The Coast

Guard has already published [66 FR

48157 (September 18, 2001)] the 60-day

notice required by OIRA. That notice

elicited no comments.

Request for Comments

The Coast Guard invites comments on

the proposed collection of information

to determine whether the collection is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the Department. In

particular, the Coast Guard would

appreciate comments addressing: (1)

The practical utility of the collection; (2)

the accuracy of the Department’s

estimated burden of the collection; (3)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information that is the

subject of the collection; and (4) ways to

minimize the burden of collection on

respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Comments, to DMS or OIRA, must

contain the OMB Control Number of the

ICR addressed. Comments to DMS must

contain the docket number of this

request, USCG 2001–10613. Comments

to OIRA are best assured of having their

full effect if OIRA receives them 30 or

fewer days after the publication of this

request.

Information Collection Requests

1. Title: Information on Marine

Casualties; Testing Personnel of

Commercial Vessels for Drugs and

Alcohol; and Management Information

Systems.

OMB Control Number: 2115–0003.

Type of Request: Extension of a

currently approved collection.

Affected Public: The owner, agent,

master, operator, or person-in-charge of

a vessel involved in a marine casualty.

Forms: CG–2692, CG–2692A, CG–

2692B, and CG–5573.

Abstract: The Coast Guard needs

information with which it can

investigate mishaps to commercial

vessels causing death, extensive

damage, and the like, as mandated by

Congress. It needs information from

chemical testing so it can detect and

reduce the use of drugs and alcohol by

mariners, also as mandated by Congress.

And it needs certain information on

management so it can evaluate the

effectiveness of its programs.

Annual Estimated Burden Hours: The

estimated burden is 19,195 hours a year.

Dated: December 11, 2001.

J.E. Evans,

Acting Director of Information & Technology.

[FR Doc. 01–31013 Filed 12–14–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG–2001–11137]

Maritime Security

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of meeting; request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is holding a

public workshop to discuss security

procedures, programs, and capabilities

within marine transportation systems.

Discussions will focus on identifying

possible security measures, standards,

and responses to threats and acts of

crime and terrorism. We encourage

interested parties to attend the

workshop and submit comments for

discussion during the workshop. We

also seek comments to the docket,

especially from any party unable to

attend the workshop.

DATES: The public workshop will be

held on January 28 through 30, 2002,

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at The Grand

Hyatt Washington at Washington Center

in Washington DC. We may end the

workshop early, if we have covered all

of the agenda topics and if the people

attending have no further comments.

Persons wishing to make presentations

must contact CDR Mike Rand by January

7, 2002. Comments and related material

must reach the Docket Management

Facility on or before February 14, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held

at the following location: Grand Hyatt

Washington at Washington Center, 1000

H Street, NW., Washington DC., 20001,

Phone (202) 582–1234.

You may submit your comments

directly to the Docket Management

Facility. To make sure that your

comments and related material do not

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enter the docket [USCG–2001–11137]

more than once, please submit them by

only one of the following means:

(1) Electronically through the Web

Site for the Docket Management System

at http://dms.dot.gov/. 

(2) By fax to the Docket Management

Facility at 202–493–2251.

(3) By delivery to room PL–401 on the

Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC,

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday

through Friday, except Federal holidays.

The telephone number is 202–366–

9329.

(4) By mail to the Docket Management

Facility, (USCG–2001–11137), U.S.

Department of Transportation, room PL–

401, 400 Seventh Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20590–0001.

The Docket Management Facility

maintains the public docket for this

notice. Comments and material received

from the public, as well as documents

mentioned in this notice as being

available in the docket, will become part

of this docket and will be available for

inspection or copying at room PL–401

on the Plaza level of the Nassif Building,

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington,

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays.

You may also find this notice in the

docket on the Internet at http://

dms.dot.gov/. Comments in the docket

are available to the public for inspection

and further comment, including

proprietary information if submitted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information concerning this notice or

the public workshop, write or call CDR

Mike Rand, at the Vessel and Facility

Security Division (G–MP), U.S. Coast

Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590,

mrand@comdt.uscg.mil, or at 202–267–

6853. For questions on viewing or

submitting material to the docket, call

Dorothy Beard, Chief of Dockets,

Department of Transportation, at 202–

366–5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

We encourage you to participate in

this workshop by submitting comments

and related material. If you do so, please

include your name and address, identify

the docket number [USCG–2001–11137]

and give the reason for each comment.

You may submit your comments and

material electronically, by fax, by

delivery, or by mail to the Docket

Management Facility at the address

under ADDRESSES; but please submit

your comments and material by only

one means. If you submit them by mail

or delivery, submit them in an unbound

format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches,

suitable for copying and electronic

filing. If you submit them 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.

Public Workshop

The Coast Guard encourages owners

and operators of vessels, offshore

platforms, and facilities, agencies in law

enforcement and emergency planning,

port authorities, shipping agents,

insurance companies, Protection and

Indemnity Clubs, and other interested

persons to attend the workshop.

Workshop attendees will have the

opportunity to verbally comment on

topics scheduled for discussion on the

agenda. We may ask questions to clarify

comments given by an attendee. The

workshop will be held January 28

through 30 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each

day at The Grand Hyatt Washington at

Washington Center in Washington DC.

Separate sessions discussing threats to

the marine transportation system’s

security in such areas as physical

security, operational measures, and

access control will be held

simultaneously each day to allow for

comments and/or presentations on these

topics. The completed agenda will be

placed on the docket approximately two

weeks before the workshop. We also

will announce the availability of the

agenda on the docket in a notice

published in the Federal Register.

For those wishing to make a

presentation at the workshop, please

notify CDR Mike Rand with the

following information:

(1) The topic you wish to talk about;

(2) The date and time you would like

to schedule the presentation; and

(3) Any materials (such as video and

audio equipment) you might need to

conduct your presentation.

Persons wishing to make

presentations must contact CDR Mike

Rand by January 7, 2002. Information on

how to contact him is under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

Information on Services for Individuals

With Disabilities

To obtain information on facilities or

services for individuals with disabilities

or to ask that we provide special

assistance at the workshop, please

notify CDR Mike Rand at the address or

phone number under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

Background and Purpose

The terrorist attacks of September 11,

2001, and the attack on USS COLE, a

Navy ship moored in Yemen that killed

17 sailors and injured 37 in October of

2000, make it clear that the marine

transportation system faces

unprecedented threats.

The United States can ill afford to

ignore the potential vulnerability of its

marine transportation system (MTS).

More than 95 percent of U.S. foreign

trade by volume now travels by sea. The

MTS, whether at port facilities in

coastal waters or along inland

waterways, plays a vital role in

America’s transportation network.

In addition, U.S. ports handle more

than 17 million containers each year.

Containers raise a specific concern

because they are, by design, intermodal.

A container unloaded at a port on one

day is often deployed deep into

America’s heartland soon thereafter by

truck or rail. With only a small

percentage of those containers currently

being inspected by federal agencies, the

potentiality for illegal activities is

enormous.

Ports are not the only potential

maritime targets; other such targets

include but are not limited to—tank

vessels, passenger vessels, cargo vessels,

facilities for exploration and production

of oil, power plants, bridges, other

critical infrastructure, and the marine

environment also need protection.

Furthermore, the United States has more

than 95,000 miles of coastline,

providing many infiltration routes into

the country.

It is important to note that the Coast

Guard and Congress were concerned

about MTS security even before

September 11, 2001. Indeed, the Port

and Maritime Security Act was

introduced at the close of the 106th

Congress. If passed, the Act would,

among other things, authorize the Coast

Guard to establish an MTS security task

force in consultation with the U.S.

Customs Service, and the Maritime

Administration.

The proposed Act was prompted by

the work of the President’s Interagency

Commission on Crime and Security in

U.S. Seaports, which subsequently

issued a report highlighting the threats

to our nation’s ports. The Commission

found that:

• The state of security in U.S.

seaports generally ranges from poor to

fair, and, in a few cases, good. There are

no widely accepted standards or

guidelines for physical, procedural, and

personnel security for seaports,

although some ports are making

outstanding efforts to improve security.

Control of access to the seaport or

sensitive areas within it is often lacking.

Practices to restrict or control the access

of vehicles to vessels, the receipt and

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delivery of cargo, and the processing of

passengers at seaports are either not

present or not consistently enforced,

increasing the risk that violators could

quickly remove cargo or contraband.

Many ports do not issue identification

cards to personnel to restrict the access

to vessels, the receipt and delivery of

cargo, and the processing of passengers.

• Vessel manifests, import and

export, are sometimes deficient for

import risk assessment and export

control. Information from them is easier

to use for drug enforcement and

commercial compliance if it is received

as electronic data before the arrival of

vessels.

• Although the Federal government

has established formal structures for

coordinating governmental efforts and

has developed national strategies to

address drug trafficking, terrorism, other

domestic and international crime, and

to guarantee economic mobility, seaport

security per se has not been adequately

addressed. Stronger and more focused

coordination among agencies and

between the public and private sectors

to enhance Security is needed.

Topic of Discussion: Security of Marine

Transportation Systems

The Coast Guard is conducting this

workshop to assess existing MTS

security standards and measures to

gather ideas on possible improvements.

To facilitate discourse during the

workshop attendees should, before

attending the workshop, evaluate threats

to MTS security in such areas as

physical security, operational measures,

and access control. After recognizing

threats to MTS security, the public

should evaluate existing MTS security

standards and measures to identify

vulnerabilities, and then develop

possible adjustments to decrease those

vulnerabilities. The workshop will

provide the public an opportunity to

present ideas and to discuss the threats,

vulnerabilities, and adjustments to MTS

security. In the future we may propose

new or amendatory rules that would

address issues broached during the

workshop.

Three general areas of MTS security,

to wit, physical security, operational

measures, and access control, will

almost certainly arise during the

workshop. Persons planning to attend

the workshop should be prepared to

discuss these general areas as they relate

to security, protection, and economic

performance of the maritime industry.

Workshop attendees will be asked to

discuss a host of possible costs and

benefits that could result from

identifying and addressing physical

security, operational measures, and

access-control vulnerabilities.

We request information about all

current Federal, State, and local

governmental laws, procedures,

regulations, and standards that are

either functioning or that are planned.

We also request industry to provide any

current and planned standards and

procedures covering the security of

vessels and facilities. Finally, we

request recommendations toward

needed improvement or added

regulations. Examples of the types of

information we are interested in

receiving are:

Physical security. Discussions of the

physical security of personnel, ports,

facilities, and vessels might include, but

are not limited to:

• Measures and standards currently

being used at a facility or on board a

vessel.

• Criteria for measures and standards

at a facility or on board a vessel such as

fences, gates, alarms, lighting, antennas,

and personnel on watch.

• Security technologies currently

used or possible to make ports,

facilities, and vessels more secure

against the threat or commission of

crimes or terrorism.

Operational measures. Discussions of

the operational measures for personnel,

ports, facilities, and vessels might

include, but are not limited to:

• Effectiveness of existing passenger

terminals and passenger vessels security

plan requirements.

• Effectiveness of existing terminal

and security plans for ports, vessels,

offshore platforms, and industry.

• Facilities and vessels, other than

passenger terminals and passenger

vessels regulated in 33 CFR parts 120

and 128, which should have security

plans.

• Response plans in place to prevent

criminal and terrorist acts and threats.

• Details of measures taken in

response to such acts and threats.

• Necessity of MTS security

committees and the sharing of

intelligence and threat advisories

between the Coast Guard and industry.

• Criteria and need for a tracking

system for vessels trafficking the

navigable waters of the United States.

Access control. Discussions of access

control for personnel, passengers, and

cargo might include, but are not limited

to:

• Criteria and process for background

check prior to employment.

• Check points that screen personnel,

passengers, cargo, and baggage.

• Additional information, currently

used or deemed necessary to document

or certificate personnel, facilities, and

vessels.

• Types of credentials (such as

identification cards, employment cards,

and access passes) used to limit access.

Dated: December 10, 2001.

Joseph J. Angelo,

Director of Standards, Marine Safety and

Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 01–31171 Filed 12–13–01; 3:46 pm]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Air Traffic Procedures Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice

to advise the public that a meeting of

the Federal Aviation Administration Air

Traffic Procedures Advisory Committee

(ATPAC) will be held to review present

air traffic control procedures and

practices for standardization,

clarification, and upgrading of

terminology and procedures.

DATES: The meeting will be held from

January 14–17, 2002, from 8 a.m. to 4

p.m. each day.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the McCarran International Airport,

Main Terminal (Second Floor),

Mezzanine Rooms 2 & 3, 5757 Wayne

Newton Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89111.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Eric Harrell, Executive Director,

ATPAC, Air Traffic Planning and

Procedures, 800 Independence Avenue,

SW., Washington, DC 20591, telephone

(202) 267–9155.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463; 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is hereby

given of a meeting of the ATPAC to be

held January 14 through January 17,

2002, at the McCarran International

Airport, Main Terminal (Second Floor),

Mezzanine Rooms 2 & 3, 5757 Wayne

Newton Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89111.

The agenda for this meeting will

cover: a continuation of the Committee’s

review of present air traffic control

procedures and practices for

standardization, clarification, and

upgrading of terminology and

procedures. It will also include:

1. Approval of Minutes.

2. Submission and Discussion of

Areas of Concern.

3. Discussion of Potential Safety

Items.

4. Report from Executive Director.

5. Items of Interest.