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Federal Register :: Commercial Diving Operations-Reopening of Comment Period
A Proposed Rule by the Coast Guard on 08/24/2015
1625-AA21
Commercial Diving Operations - Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM)
Varience System Suggestion
Preliminary Regulatory Analysis and Interim Regulatory...
National Offshore Safety Advisory Committee Executive Phase
Response to Legacy Offshore Ltr to CDR Smith
CDO Ex Parte Communications
CG-05 Ltr. To Facey on Diving Report - 03/10/09
NOSAC CDO Final Report Recommendations Cover Ltr. - 02/05/09
NOSAC Diving Subcommittee Recommendations of 18 April 2008
Formal Investigation of Cliff's Drilling Rig No. 12 - Part 7
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Collection of information. You must submit comments on the collection of information discussed in the notice of proposed rulemaking at 80 FR 9173 both to the Coast Guard's docket and to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the White House Office of Management and Budget. OIRA submissions can be made using one of the listed methods.
Viewing material proposed for incorporation by reference. To make arrangements to view this material, please call or email Mr. Ken Smith (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
If you have questions on this notice of proposed rulemaking, call or email Mr. Ken Smith, Project Manager, U.S. Coast Guard, Headquarters, Vessel and Facility Operating Standards Division, Commandant (CG-OES-2); telephone 202-372-1413, email Ken.A.Smith@uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Cheryl Collins, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826.
We encourage you to submit comments (or related material) on this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). We will consider all submissions and may adjust our final action based on your comments. Comments should be marked with docket number USCG-1998-3786, and should provide a reason for each suggestion or recommendation. You may provide personal contact information so that we can contact you if we have questions regarding your comments, but please note that all comments will be posted to the online docket without change and any personal information you include will be searchable online (see the Federal Register Privacy Act notice regarding our public dockets, 73 FR 3316, Jan. 17, 2008).
Documents mentioned in this NPRM and all public comments are available in our online docket at http://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following the instructions on that Web site. You can also view the docket online at the Docket Management Facility (see the address under ADDRESSES) between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
On February 19, 2015, we published an NPRM entitled “Commercial Diving Operations” (80 FR 9152) that proposed amendments to our regulations for commercial diving conducted from deepwater ports or deepwater port safety zones, or in connection with Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) activities, or from vessels that are required to have a Coast Guard certificate of inspection. The NPRM would revise and update current regulations to improve safety and to reflect current industry best practices. The NPRM would also allow the Coast Guard to approve independent third-party organizations to assist in ensuring compliance with commercial diving regulations. All comments on the NPRM, including comments on the proposed collection of information, were due by May 20, 2015. In the course of reviewing comments on the NPRM, we became aware of several errors on our part.
First, on page 9175 of the NPRM, our proposed regulatory text for 46 CFR 197.200 contained two unintended changes in the applicability of subpart B. We do not intend, despite the proposed language for § 197.200(a)(3), to extend applicability to commercial diving operations involving any vessel operating on the navigable waters of the United States. Nor do we intend, despite the proposed language for § 197.200(a)(5), to remove from applicability those U.S. vessels engaged in an OCS activity as defined in 33 CFR part 140, or connected to a deepwater port as defined in 33 CFR part 150. In a final rule, in § 197.200, we would remove paragraph (a)(3), remove the words “foreign flagged” from paragraph (a)(5), and renumber paragraphs in accordance with this change. As we stated in Table 2 on page 9156 of the NPRM, our intentions for § 197.200 are only to add paragraph (d) concerning Start Printed Page 51174foreign vessels, and to improve the clarity of our existing provisions, without making any other changes to the substance of the applicability provisions of subpart B.
Second, we provided incorrect telephone and email contact information for those wishing to view material proposed for incorporation by reference on pages 9158 and 9159 of the NPRM. To make arrangements to view that material, please contact Mr. Ken Smith (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Third, throughout the NPRM comment period that ended May 20, 2015, the Preliminary Regulatory Analysis and Interim Regulatory Flexibility Analysis document for the NPRM was unavailable in the rulemaking docket. We corrected that omission in June 2015, and that document is currently available at http://www.regulations.gov as docket number USCG-1998-3786-0195.
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