Source: http://ecfr.io/Title-46/sp46.8.393.c
Timestamp: 2019-10-21 23:14:01
Document Index: 487706854

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 393', 'art 393', 'art 393', 'ART 393', '§393', '§393', '§393']

[46 CFR 393 → Subpart C] Title 46 Part 393 → Subpart C : Code of Federal Regulations ';
Title 46 Part 393 → Subpart C
Title 46 → Chapter II → Subchapter K → Part 393 → Subpart C
PART 393—AMERICA'S MARINE HIGHWAY PROGRAM
Subpart C—Department of Transportation Efforts To Foster and Support America's Marine Highways
§393.4 DOT Support for planning activities.
§393.5 DOT Support for Marine Highway-related research.
§393.6 America's Marine Highway Program Project grants.
(a) How does DOT provide support? (1) The Program Office engages in coordination and planning activities with Federal, State, local and tribal governments and planning and private entities organizations to encourage the use of designated Marine Highway Routes and Projects. These activities include:
(i) Working with these entities to assess plans and develop strategies, where appropriate, to incorporate Marine Highway transportation and other short sea transportation solutions to their statewide and metropolitan transportation plans, including the Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs and State Freight Plans.
(ii) Facilitating groups of States and multi-State transportation entities to determine how Marine Highway transportation can address port congestion, traffic delays, bottlenecks, and other interstate transportation challenges to their mutual benefit.
(iii) Identifying other Federal agencies that have jurisdiction over services, or which currently provide funding for components of services, in order to determine which agencies should be consulted and assist in the coordination process.
(iv) Organizing the Department's modal administrations, including Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, and Federal Transit Administration, as appropriate, for support and to evaluate costs and benefits of proposed Marine Highway Routes and Projects.
(a) How does DOT support research? (1) The Program Office works in consultation with public and private entities as appropriate, within the limits of available resources, to identify impediments, develop incentives, and conduct innovative research, in support of the America's Marine Highway Program or in direct support of specific designated Marine Highway Routes and Projects. The primary objectives of selected research projects are to:
(i) Identify markets, cargoes, and service parameters that could facilitate the development of new or expanded Marine Highway Services.
(ii) Identify existing or emerging technology, vessel design, infrastructure designs, and other improvements that would reduce emissions, increase fuel economy, and lower costs of Marine Highway transportation and increase the efficiency of intermodal transfers.
(iii) Identify impediments to the establishment of Marine Highway services.
(iv) Identify incentives to increase the use and efficiency of Marine Highway services.
(b) The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, may conduct research on short sea transportation regarding:
(1) The environmental and transportation benefits to be derived from short sea transportation alternatives for other forms of transportation;
(2) Technology, vessel design, and other improvements that would reduce emissions, increase fuel economy, and lower costs of short sea transportation and increase the efficiency of intermodal transfers; and
(3) Solutions to impediments to short sea transportation projects designated.
(a) How does MARAD administer the AMHP grant program? (1) The Associate Administrator for Intermodal Systems Development manages the program under the guidance and the immediate administrative direction of the Maritime Administrator.
(2) MARAD establishes grant program priorities as reflected in its grant opportunity announcements and, from time-to-time, issues clarifying guidance documents through the MARAD Web site and the Federal Register.
(3) The Administrator makes funding recommendations to the Secretary, who has the authority to award grants.
(b) How does MARAD make grant opportunities known? (1) MARAD determines which grant opportunities it will offer, and establishes application deadlines and programmatic requirements when grant funds become available to the AMHP.
(2) The MARAD staff prepares Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements consisting of all information necessary to apply for each grant and publishes the announcement in the Federal Register and on grants.gov.
(c) How may an applicant apply for an AMHP grant? (1) Applicants may apply for a grant using grants.gov or, in connection with a Federal Register announcement, by submitting the necessary information to the AMHP Office in electronic form.