Notice2025-16439
Request for Comments on the Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection: Application for Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for Small Passenger Vessels
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Published
August 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentMaritime Administration
Abstract
MARAD invites public comments on its intention to request Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection OMB 2133-0529 (Application for Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for Small Passenger Vessels) is used to identify the effect of potential foreign-built small passenger vessel coastwise operations on U.S. vessel builders and coastwise trade businesses. Since the last renewal there was an increase in the total respondents, responses, burden hours and cost to respondents. MARAD is required to publish this notice in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 165 (Thursday, August 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42063-42064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16439]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD-2025-0095]
Request for Comments on the Renewal of a Previously Approved
Information Collection: Application for Waiver of the Coastwise Trade
Laws for Small Passenger Vessels
AGENCY: Maritime Administration (MARAD), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: MARAD invites public comments on its intention to request
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information
collection in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
proposed collection OMB 2133-0529 (Application for Waiver of the
Coastwise Trade Laws for Small Passenger Vessels) is used to identify
the effect of potential foreign-built small passenger vessel coastwise
operations on U.S. vessel builders and coastwise trade businesses.
Since the last renewal there was an increase in the total respondents,
responses, burden hours and cost to respondents. MARAD is required to
publish this notice in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collections should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Hagerty, (202) 366-0903,
Office of Cargo and Commercial Sealift, Maritime Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, Email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#85f6e8e4e9e9f3e0f6f6e0e9f6c5e1eaf1abe2eaf3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7a09171b16160c1f09091f16093a1e150e541d150c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Application for Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for Small
Passenger Vessels.
OMB Control Number: 2133-0529.
Type of Request: Extension With Change of a Currently Approved
Collection.
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Abstract: Owners of foreign-built small passenger vessels must
request an eligibility determination from the Maritime Administration
(MARAD) to engage in coastwise trade.
Respondents: Owners and prospective owners, vessel agents, brokers,
and charterers of U.S. built vessels; vessels that were not U.S. built
and is at least 3 years old; or if U.S. rebuilt, was rebuilt in the
U.S. or outside of the United States at least 3 years before a
coastwise endorsement under 46 U.S.C. 12121(b) would take effect.
Affected Public: U.S. vessel builders and owners of U.S. passenger
vessels.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 200.
Estimated Number of Responses: 200.
Estimated Hours per Response: 1.
Annual Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 200.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
A 60-day Federal Register Notice soliciting comments on this
information collection was published on June 9, 2025, in the Federal
Register 90 FR 24312 indicating comments should be submitted on or
before August 8, 2025. The posting received two public comments in
reference to this collection renewal. One comment was non-substantive
and unrelated to the program. The other comment from the Passenger
Vessel Association was substantive and will be further evaluated and
provided a more detailed response.
(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.49.)
By Order of the Maritime Administration.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-16439 Filed 8-27-25; 8:45 am]
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