Document ID: USCG-2008-0028-0006
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Implementation of Vessel Security Officer Training and Certification Requirements--International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as Amended
Posted Date: 2008-06-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register: June 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 117)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 34190-34191]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 104

[Docket No. USCG-2008-0028]
RIN 1625-AB26

 
Implementation of Vessel Security Officer Training and 
Certification Requirements--International Convention on Standards of 
Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as 
Amended

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Interim rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On May 20, 2008, the Coast Guard published in the Federal 
Register an interim rule with request for comments to amend its 
regulations to implement the vessel security officer training and 
certification amendments to the International Convention on Standards 
of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as 
amended, and the Seafarers' Training, Certification and Watchkeeping 
Code. In the interim rule a clerical error was made stating as an 
option that to qualify for a VSO endorsement, a person must ``have 
approved sea service of not less than 90 days on any vessel subject to 
section 104.215 of this part * * *.'' Instead, the option should have 
stated that a person must have not less than six months to qualify for 
a VSO endorsement, not 90 days. This document corrects that error.

DATES: This interim rule is effective June 19, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this interim 
rule, contact Ms. Mayte Medina, Maritime Personnel Qualifications 
Division, Coast Guard, by telephone 202-372-1406 or by e-mail at 
Mayte.Medina2@uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or submitting 
material to the docket, contact Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 
Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Need for Correction

    On May 20, 2008, the Coast Guard published in the Federal Register 
an interim rule with request for comments to amend its regulations to 
implement the vessel security officer training and certification 
amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, 
Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended, and the 
Seafarers' Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Code. In 33 CFR 
104.215(d)(1)(v)(B), a typographical error was made stating as an 
option that to qualify for a VSO endorsement, a person must ``have 
approved sea service of not less than 90 days on any vessel subject to 
section 104.215 of this part * * *.'' Instead, the option should have 
stated that a person must have not less than six months to qualify for 
a VSO endorsement, not 90 days. In the preamble section of the Interim 
Rule section, the discussion of 33 CFR 104.215 states that ``The sea 
service requirements in Sec.  104.215 will provide two options: (1.) 12 
months; or (2.) 6 months with knowledge of ship operations.'' The 
paragraph further discusses the requirements to qualify under the six-
month option. This shows the intent of the Coast Guard to provide an 
option of sea service of not less than 6 months in Sec.  
104.215(d)(v)(B). Since this error would be misleading and cause 
confusion, this document corrects the typographical error found in 
amendatory instruction 2.

Correction of Publication

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In rule FR Doc. E8-11225 published on May 20, 2008, (73 FR 29060) make 
the following correction.

Sec.  104.215  [Corrected]

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1. On page 29070, in the second column, revise Sec.  
104.215(d)(1)(v)(B) by removing the words ``90 days'' and adding the 
words ``6 months'' in their place.

    Dated: June 9, 2008.
David L. Nichols,
Acting Chief, Regulations and Administrative Law, United States Coast 
Guard.
[FR Doc. E8-13552 Filed 6-16-08; 8:45 am]

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