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program goal is to promote development
of alternatives to ballast water exchange
as a means of preventing invasive
species entering U.S. waters through
ships’ ballast water. The comments we
received support testing prototype
treatment equipment and developing
effective and practicable standards for
approving this equipment.
In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(Section 102(2)(c)), as implemented by
the Council of Environment Quality
regulations in 40 CFR parts 1500–1508
and Coast Guard Commandant
Instruction M16475.1D, ‘‘National
Environmental Policy Act Implementing
Procedures and Policy for Considering
Environmental Impacts’’, the Coast
Guard prepared a Programmatic
Environmental Assessment (PEA) for
the STEP to evaluate the environmental
impacts from installing and operating a
limited number of prototype ballast
water treatment systems. 69 FR 71068.
The PEA can be found in docket USCG–
2001–9267. That PEA addresses
potential effects to the natural and
human environments including fish,
marine mammals, invertebrates,
microorganisms and plankton,
submerged and emergent species,
threatened and endangered species, and
essential fish habitat. It also requires
each system to be evaluated for
localized affects on the ports and
waterways where a vessel involved in
the program operates.We request your
comments on the potential impacts of
installing, using, and testing the
Echoclor, Inc. ballast water treatment
system on the cruise ship MOKU PAHU,
as analyzed in the DEA. We also request
your comments on sources of data,
reference material, or other information
not included in the DEA. Your
comments will be considered in
preparing a Final Environmental
Assessment for the MOKU PAHU.
Dated: March 25, 2008.
J.G. Lantz,
U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Commercial
Regulations and Standards.
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[Docket No. USCG–2008–0003]
Notification of the Imposition of
Conditions of Entry for Certain Vessels
Arriving to the United States, Cuba
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces
that effective anti-terrorism measures
are not in place in the ports of Cuba and
that it will impose conditions of entry
on vessels arriving from that country.
DATES: The policy announced in this
notice will become effective April 18,
2008.
ADDRESSES: This notice will be available
for inspection and copying at the Docket
Management Facility at the U.S.
Department of Transportation, Room
W12–140 on the Ground Floor of the
West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
The telephone number is 202–366–
9329.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions on this notice, call
Mr. Michael Brown, International Port
Security Evaluation Division, Coast
Guard, telephone 202–372–1081. If you
have questions on viewing or submitting
material to the docket, call Renee V.
Wright, Program Manager, Docket
Operations, telephone 202–366–9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
Section 70110 of the Maritime
Transportation Security Act provides
that the Secretary of Homeland Security
may impose conditions of entry on
vessels requesting entry into the United
States arriving from ports that are not
maintaining effective anti-terrorism
measures. The Coast Guard has been
delegated the authority by the Secretary
to carry out the provisions of this
section. The Docket contains previous
notices imposing or removing
conditions of entry on vessels arriving
from certain countries and those
conditions of entry and the countries
they pertain to remain in effect unless
modified by this notice.
The Coast Guard has determined that
ports in Cuba are not maintaining
effective anti-terrorism measures.
Inclusive to this determination is an
assessment that Cuba presents
significant risk of introducing
instruments of terror into international
maritime commerce. Accordingly,
effective April 18, 2008 the Coast Guard
will impose the following conditions of
entry on vessels that visited ports in
Cuba during their last five port calls.
Vessels must:
• Implement measures per the ship’s
security plan equivalent to Security
Level 2 while in a port in Cuba;
• Ensure that each access point to the
ship is guarded and that the guards have
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total visibility of the exterior (both
landside and waterside) of the vessel
while the vessel is in ports in Cuba.
Guards may be provided by the ship’s
crew, however additional crewmembers
should be placed on the ship if
necessary to ensure that limits on
maximum hours of work are not
exceeded and/or minimum hours of rest
are met, or provided by outside security
forces approved by the ship’s master
and Company Security Officer;
• Attempt to execute a Declaration of
Security while in port in Cuba;
• Log all security actions in the ship’s
log;
• Report actions taken to the
cognizant U.S. Coast Guard Captain of
the Port prior to arrival into U.S. waters;
and
• Ensure that each access point to the
ship is guarded by armed, private
security guards and that they have total
visibility of the exterior (both landside
and waterside) of the vessel while in
U.S. ports. The number and position of
the guards has to be acceptable to the
cognizant Coast Guard Captain of the
Port.
With this notice, the current list of
countries not maintaining effective antiterrorism measures is as follows:
Cameroon, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Liberia,
Mauritania and Syria.
Dated: March 28, 2008.
Rear Admiral David Pekoske,
USCG, Assistant Commandant For
Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2008-0003]
Notification of the Imposition of Conditions of Entry for Certain
Vessels Arriving to the United States, Cuba
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces that effective anti-terrorism
measures are not in place in the ports of Cuba and that it will impose
conditions of entry on vessels arriving from that country.
DATES: The policy announced in this notice will become effective April
18, 2008.
ADDRESSES: This notice will be available for inspection and copying at
the Docket Management Facility at the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Room W12-140 on the Ground Floor of the West Building,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
call Mr. Michael Brown, International Port Security Evaluation
Division, Coast Guard, telephone 202-372-1081. If you have questions on
viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright,
Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose
Section 70110 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act provides
that the Secretary of Homeland Security may impose conditions of entry
on vessels requesting entry into the United States arriving from ports
that are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. The Coast
Guard has been delegated the authority by the Secretary to carry out
the provisions of this section. The Docket contains previous notices
imposing or removing conditions of entry on vessels arriving from
certain countries and those conditions of entry and the countries they
pertain to remain in effect unless modified by this notice.
The Coast Guard has determined that ports in Cuba are not
maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. Inclusive to this
determination is an assessment that Cuba presents significant risk of
introducing instruments of terror into international maritime commerce.
Accordingly, effective April 18, 2008 the Coast Guard will impose the
following conditions of entry on vessels that visited ports in Cuba
during their last five port calls. Vessels must:
Implement measures per the ship's security plan equivalent
to Security Level 2 while in a port in Cuba;
Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded and
that the guards have total visibility of the exterior (both landside
and waterside) of the vessel while the vessel is in ports in Cuba.
Guards may be provided by the ship's crew, however additional
crewmembers should be placed on the ship if necessary to ensure that
limits on maximum hours of work are not exceeded and/or minimum hours
of rest are met, or provided by outside security forces approved by the
ship's master and Company Security Officer;
Attempt to execute a Declaration of Security while in port
in Cuba;
Log all security actions in the ship's log;
Report actions taken to the cognizant U.S. Coast Guard
Captain of the Port prior to arrival into U.S. waters; and
Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded by
armed, private security guards and that they have total visibility of
the exterior (both landside and waterside) of the vessel while in U.S.
ports. The number and position of the guards has to be acceptable to
the cognizant Coast Guard Captain of the Port.
With this notice, the current list of countries not maintaining
effective anti-terrorism measures is as follows: Cameroon, Cuba,
Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Liberia, Mauritania
and Syria.
Dated: March 28, 2008.
Rear Admiral David Pekoske,
USCG, Assistant Commandant For Operations.
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