Notice2025-01584
Coastwise-Qualified Launch Barges Notification
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Published
January 31, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentMaritime Administration
Abstract
To maximize the use of coastwise-qualified vessels, in January of each calendar year, MARAD requests owners and operators of coastwise-qualified launch barges or other interested parties to notify the Agency of their interest in, and provide certain information relating to, the transportation, installation, or launching of platform jackets. MARAD publishes the notifications as a resource to companies contemplating these operations on the outer continental shelf. The notifications should include information set forth in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8734-8735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01584]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD-2025-0002]
Coastwise-Qualified Launch Barges Notification
AGENCY: Maritime Administration (MARAD), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: To maximize the use of coastwise-qualified vessels, in January
of each calendar year, MARAD requests owners and operators of
coastwise-qualified launch barges or other interested parties to notify
the Agency of their interest in, and provide certain information
relating to, the transportation, installation, or launching of platform
jackets. MARAD publishes the notifications as a resource to companies
contemplating these operations on the outer continental shelf. The
notifications should include information set forth in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section below.
DATES: Submit comments on or before March 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket Number
MARAD-2025-0002 by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Search ``MARAD-2025-0002'' and follow the
instructions for submitting comments on the electronic docket site.
<bullet> Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except on Federal holidays.
Note: All submissions must include the agency name and docket
number for this notice. All comments received will be posted without
change to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> including any personal
information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to read comments received, go to
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> and search using ``MARAD-2025-0002.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Hagerty, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Room W23-461, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-0903. Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8dceecffeae2a3c0ccdfccc9cde9e2f9a3eae2fb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="baf9dbc8ddd594f7fbe8fbfefaded5ce94ddd5cc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 55108, the Secretary
of Transportation has the authority to adopt procedures that timely
provide information that would maximize the use of coastwise-qualified
vessels for the transportation of platform jackets between U.S.
coastwise points and the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. This authority
has been delegated to MARAD. The regulation promulgated under the
authority of 46 U.S.C. 55108, 46 CFR 389.3(a), requires that MARAD
publish a notice in the Federal Register requesting notification from
owners, operators, or potential operators of coastwise-qualified launch
barges, or other interested parties, of: (1) their interest in
participating in the transportation and, if needed, the launching or
installation of offshore platform jackets; (2) the contact information
for their company; and, (3) the specifications of any currently owned
or operated coastwise-qualified launch barges or plans to construct
such a vessel. The notification should indicate that the vessel's
certificate of documentation has a coastwise endorsement. The
information provided in the notifications will be published at <a href="http://MARAD.regulations.gov">http://MARAD.regulations.gov</a>.
Privacy Act
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), MARAD solicits comments from
owners and operators of coastwise-qualified launch barges to compile a
list of vessels that could potentially be available to transport, and
if necessary, launch or install platform jackets. All timely comments
will be considered; however, to facilitate comment tracking, commenters
should provide their name or the name of their organization. If
comments contain proprietary or confidential information, commenters
may contact the Agency for alternate submission instructions. The
electronic form of all comments received into MARAD dockets may be
searched by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). For information on DOT's compliance with
the Privacy Act, please visit <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/privacy">https://www.transportation.gov/privacy</a>.
(Authority: 46 U.S.C. 55108, 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 CFR 389.)
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By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-01584 Filed 1-30-25; 8:45 am]
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