Notice2024-16410
Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee Meeting; September 2024 Meeting
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Published
July 25, 2024
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentCoast Guard
Abstract
The Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee (Committee) will meet in Massena, New York, to discuss matters relating to Great Lakes Pilotage, including review of proposed Great Lakes Pilotage regulations and policies. The meeting will be open to the public.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60440-60441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16410]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2024-0619]
Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee Meeting; September 2024
Meeting
AGENCY: U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
ACTION: Notice of open Federal advisory committee meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee (Committee) will
meet in Massena, New York, to discuss matters relating to Great Lakes
Pilotage, including review of proposed Great Lakes Pilotage regulations
and policies. The meeting will be open to the public.
DATES:
Meeting: The Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 10, 2024,
from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Please note that
this meeting may adjourn early if the Committee has completed its
business.
Comments and supporting documentations: To ensure your comments are
received by Committee members prior to the meeting, submit your written
comments no later than August 30, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Saint Lawrence Seaway
Visitor Center at Eisenhower Lock, 76 Barnhart Island Road, Massena, NY
13662.
Pre-registration Information: Pre-registration is not required for
access to the meeting.
The Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee is committed to
ensuring all participants have equal access regardless of disability
status. If you require reasonable accommodation due to a disability to
fully participate, please email Mr. Francis Levesque at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2a6c584b44494359047804664f5c4f595b5f4f6a5f59494d04474346"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d3b0f1c131e140e532f5331180b180e0c08183d080e1e1a53101411">[email protected]</span></a>. or call (571) 308-4941 as soon as
possible.
Instructions: You are free to submit comments at any time,
including orally at the meeting, but if you want Committee members to
review your comment before the meeting, please submit your comments no
later than August 30, 2024. We are particularly interested in comments
on the topics in the ``Agenda'' section below. We
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encourage you to submit comments through the Federal Decision Making
Portal at: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. To do so, go to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> type USCG-2024-0619 in the search box and click on
it. Then click on the Comment option. If your material cannot be
submitted using <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.,email the individual in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions. You must include the docket number USCG-2024-
0619. Comments received will be posted without alteration at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> including any personal information provided. You
may wish to view the Privacy and Security Notice found via link on the
homepage of <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and DHS's eRulemaking System of
Records notice (85FR 14226, March 11, 2020). If you encounter technical
difficulties with comment submission, contact the individual listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice.
Docket Search: Documents mentioned in this notice as being
available in the docket, and all public comment, will be in our online
docket at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and can be viewed by following
that website's instructions. Additionally, if you go to the online
docket and sign-up for email alerts, you will be notified when comments
are posted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Francis Levesque, Alternate
Designated Federal Officer of the Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory
Committee, telephone (571) 308-4941 or email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fabc889b94999389d4a8d4b69f8c9f898b8f9fba8f89999dd4979396"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="90d6e2f1fef3f9e3bec2bedcf5e6f5e3e1e5f5d0e5e3f3f7befdf9fc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is given pursuant to
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 117-286, 5 U.S.C. ch. 10).
The Committee was established under the authority of 46 U.S.C. 9307 and
makes recommendations to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the
U.S. Coast Guard on matters relating to Great Lakes pilotage, including
review of proposed Great Lakes pilotage regulations and policies.
Agenda
The Great Lakes Pilotage Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday,
September 10, 2024, to review, discuss, deliberate, and formulate
recommendations, as appropriate on the following topics:
1. Ordering a Pilot & Prospecting.
2. Change Points/Double Pilotage/Daytime Navigation Restrictions.
3. 46 U.S.C. 401.320.
<bullet> Standard for utilizing limited pilot resources to inform
staffing model.
<bullet> Dispatching--Logistics and Providing Pilotage Service/
Optimizing limited Pilot resources.
<bullet> Car Service versus Pilots driving themselves between
assignments.
4. Pilot availability.
5. Compensation practices.
6. Pilot's role in the supply chain.
7. Winter navigation.
8. Great Lakes Pilotage Memorandum of Understanding update.
9. Rate Making Methodology.
<bullet> Allowable Expenses.
<bullet> Working Capital Fund.
<bullet> Pilot Association Projects.
10. Seaway Vessel Identification System Project.
11. CohnReznick presentation regarding expense and revenue reports
for annual rulemaking.
12. Tug usage at the SOO locks.
13. Public Comments.
14. Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Meeting.
A copy of all meeting documentation will be available at <a href="https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Prevention-Policy-CG-5P/Marine-Transportation-Systems-CG-5PW/Office-of-Waterways-and-Ocean-Policy/Great-Lakes-Pilotage-Advisory-Committee">https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Prevention-Policy-CG-5P/Marine-Transportation-Systems-CG-5PW/Office-of-Waterways-and-Ocean-Policy/Great-Lakes-Pilotage-Advisory-Committee</a>/by September
3, 2024. Alternatively, you may contact Mr. Francis Levesque as noted
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above.
Public comments or questions will be taken throughout the meeting
as the Committee discusses the issues and prior to deliberations and
voting. There will also be a public comment period at the end of the
meeting.
Speakers are requested to limit their comments to 5 minutes. Please
contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section above, to register as a speaker.
Dated: July 22, 2024.
Michael D. Emerson,
Director, Marine Transportation Systems.
[FR Doc. 2024-16410 Filed 7-24-24; 8:45 am]
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