Document ID: USCG-2021-0592-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Notice
Title: Recertification of Cool Inlet Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council
Posted Date: 2021-10-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 20, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 58083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22782]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2021-0592]

Recertification of Cool Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of recertification.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the recertification of the Cook 
Inlet Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (CIRCAC) as an alternative 
voluntary advisory group for Cook Inlet, Alaska. This certification 
allows the CIRCAC to monitor the activities of terminal facilities and 
crude oil tankers under the Cook Inlet Program established by the Oil 
Terminal and Oil Tanker Environmental Oversight and Monitoring Act of 
1990.

DATES: This recertification is effective for the period from September 
1, 2021 through August 31, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document, 
call or email LT Lauren Bloch, Seventeenth Coast Guard District (dpi), 
by phone at (907) 463-2812 or email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background and Purpose

    The Coast Guard published guidelines on December 31, 1992 (57 FR 
62600), to assist groups seeking recertification under the Oil Terminal 
and Oil Tanker Environmental Oversight and Monitoring Act of 1990 (33 
U.S.C. 2732) (the Act). The Coast Guard issued a policy statement on 
July 7, 1993 (58 FR 36504), to clarify the factors that the Coast Guard 
would be considering in making its determination as to whether advisory 
groups should be certified in accordance with the Act, and the 
procedures which the Coast Guard would follow in meeting its 
certification responsibilities under the Act.
    Most recently, on September 16, 2002 (67 FR 58440), the Coast Guard 
changed its policy on recertification procedures for regional citizen's 
advisory council by requiring applicants to provide comprehensive 
information every three years. For each of the two years between the 
triennial application procedures, applicants submit a letter requesting 
recertification that includes a description of any substantive changes 
to the information provided at the previous triennial recertification. 
Further, public comment is only solicited during the triennial 
comprehensive review.

Recertification

    By letter dated August 27, 2021, the Commander, Seventeenth Coast 
Guard District, certified that the CIRCAC qualifies as an alternative 
voluntary advisory group under 33 U.S.C. 2732(o). This recertification 
terminates on August 31, 2022.

    Dated: August 27, 2021.
Nathan A. Moore,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Seventeenth Coast Guard 
District.
[FR Doc. 2021-22782 Filed 10-19-21; 8:45 am]
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