Document ID: USCG-2021-0735-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Notice
Title: Policy Letter: Change 1 to CG–MMC Policy Letter 01–21, Guidelines for Qualifying for STCW Endorsements for Basic and Advanced IGF Code Operations
Posted Date: 2021-10-05T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 54992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21635]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2021-0735]

Policy Letter: Change 1 to CG-MMC Policy Letter 01-21, Guidelines 
for Qualifying for STCW Endorsements for Basic and Advanced IGF Code 
Operations

AGENCY: Coast Guard, Homeland Security (DHS).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the availability of Change 1 to CG-
MMC Policy Letter 01-21, Guidelines for Qualifying for STCW 
Endorsements for Basic and Advanced IGF Code Operations. The Coast 
Guard will use applicable regulations and this policy to evaluate 
whether mariners may be issued endorsements for Basic and Advanced IGF 
Code Operations.

DATES: The policies announced in Change 1 to CG-MMC Policy Letter 01-21 
are effective as of September 20, 2021.

ADDRESSES: To view the policy letter mentioned in this notice, search 
the docket number USCG-2021-0735 using the Federal eRulemaking Portal 
at https://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document, 
contact James Cavo, Mariner Credentialing Program Policy Division (CG-
MMC-2), Coast Guard; telephone 202-372-1205; email MMCPolicy@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard is revising CG-MMC Policy 
Letter 01-21 to reduce the amount of seagoing service required to renew 
an endorsement for Basic or Advanced IGF Code Operations and to add an 
additional method to renew the endorsement by providing evidence of 
being a qualified instructor of a relevant course.
    The seagoing service option to renew a Basic or Advanced IGF Code 
Operations endorsement in the original policy letter exceeds the 
seagoing service requirement to initially qualify for an STCW 
endorsement in Basic IGF Code Operations. Holding an STCW endorsement 
for Advanced Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations or Basic Liquefied 
Gas Tanker Cargo Operations is a method to qualify for the Basic IGF 
Code endorsement. The seagoing service requirement to qualify for 
either an Advanced Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations endorsement or 
an Basic Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations endorsement is 90 days. 
This change reduces the seagoing service required as an option to renew 
an STCW endorsement for Basic IGF Code Operations to 90 days. In 
addition, this change notice reduces the seagoing service required as 
an option to renew an STCW for Advanced IGF Code Operations to 90 days.
    Methods to qualify for renewal of an STCW endorsement in IGF Code 
Operations include completion of refresher training, evidence of being 
a qualified instructor of a relevant course, or seagoing service. 
Mariners will also need to meet the applicable requirements in 46 CFR 
10.227 for the renewal of their MMC.
    This notice is issued under authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).

    Dated: September 20, 2021.
J.G. Lantz,
U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2021-21635 Filed 10-4-21; 8:45 am]
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