Notice2025-07824
Certificate of Alternate Compliance for USS CLEVELAND (LCS 31)
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Published
May 6, 2025
Effective
May 6, 2025
Issuing agencies
Defense DepartmentNavy Department
Abstract
The U.S. Navy hereby announces that a Certificate of Alternate Compliance has been issued for USS Cleveland (LCS 31). Due to the special construction and purpose of this vessel, the Admiralty Counsel of the Navy has determined it is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot comply fully with the navigation lights provisions of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS) without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this notice is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 6, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19190-19191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07824]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Certificate of Alternate Compliance for USS CLEVELAND (LCS 31)
AGENCY: Department of the Navy (DoN), Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice of issuance of Certificate of Alternate Compliance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Navy hereby announces that a Certificate of Alternate
Compliance has been issued for USS Cleveland (LCS 31). Due to the
special construction and purpose of this vessel, the Admiralty Counsel
of the Navy has determined it is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its
special construction and purpose, cannot comply fully with the
navigation lights provisions of the International Regulations for
Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS) without interfering
with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this
notice is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.
DATES: This Certificate of Alternate Compliance is effective May 6,
2025 and is applicable beginning October 1, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey M.
Larson, JAGC, U.S. Navy, Admiralty Attorney, Office of the Judge
Advocate General, Admiralty and Claims Division (Code 15A), 1322
Patterson Ave. SE, Suite 3000, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5066,
202-685-5040, or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#147b7e7573777b707125217570797d667578606d5461673a7a75626d3a797d78"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cea1a4afa9ada1aaabfffbafaaa3a7bcafa2bab78ebbbde0a0afb8b7e0a3a7a2">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
Executive Order (E.O.) 11964 of January 19, 1977 and 33 U.S.C. 1605
provide that the requirements of 72
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COLREGS as to the number, position, range, or arc of visibility of
lights or shapes, as well as to the disposition and characteristics of
sound-signaling appliances, shall not apply to a vessel or class of
vessels of the Navy where the Secretary of the Navy shall find and
certify that, by reason of special construction or purpose, it is not
possible for such vessel(s) to comply fully with the provisions without
interfering with the special function of the vessel(s). Notice of
issuance of a Certificate of Alternate Compliance must be made in the
Federal Register.
In accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1605, the Admiralty Counsel of the
Navy, under authority delegated by the Secretary of the Navy, hereby
finds and certifies that USS Cleveland (LCS 31) is a vessel of special
construction or purpose, and that, with respect to the position of the
following navigational lights, it is not possible to comply fully with
the requirements of the provisions enumerated in 72 COLREGS without
interfering with the special function of the vessel:
Annex I, paragraph 2(a)(i), pertaining to the vertical position of
the forward masthead light; Annex I, paragraph 3(a), pertaining to the
position of the forward masthead light with relation to the stern of
the vessel; Annex I, paragraph 3(a), pertaining to the horizontal
separation between the forward and aft masthead lights; and Annex I,
paragraph 2(i)(i) pertaining to spacing of vertically positioned
lights.
The Admiralty Counsel of the Navy further finds and certifies that
these navigational lights are in closest possible compliance with the
applicable provision of 72 COLREGS.
(Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1605(c), E.O. 11964.)
Dated: April 30, 2025.
R.A. Kennedy,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-07824 Filed 5-5-25; 8:45 am]
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