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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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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.
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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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Texas; Amendment No. 1 to Notice of
an Emergency Declaration
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice
of an emergency declaration for the
State of Texas (FEMA–3284–EM), dated
March 14, 2008, and related
determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
March 24, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance
Directorate, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705.
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The notice
of an emergency declaration for the
State of Texas is hereby amended to
include the following areas among those
areas determined to have been adversely
affected by the catastrophe declared an
emergency by the President in his
declaration of March 14, 2008.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Aransas, Austin, Bee, Bowie, Brazos,
Calhoun, Cameron, Dallam, Dallas, Donley,
Fayette, Freestone, Galveston, Grimes,
Hardin, Harrison, Hartley, Henderson, Jasper,
Leon, Newton, Ochiltree, Panola, Sabine, San
Patricio, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman,
Smith, Titus, Tyler, and Upshur Counties for
emergency protective measures (Category B),
limited to direct Federal assistance, under
the Public Assistance program.
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used
for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030,
Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora
Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling;
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034,
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA);
97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant;
97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to
Individuals and Households In Presidential
Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential
Declared Disaster Assistance—Disaster
Housing Operations for Individuals and
Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared
Disaster Assistance to Individuals and
Households—Other Needs, 97.036, Disaster
Grants—Public Assistance (Presidentially
Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard
Mitigation Grant.)
Bastrop, Cottle, El Paso, Franklin, Kenedy,
Lee, Madison, McMullen, Red River, Roberts,
Webb, Wood, and Yoakum Counties for
emergency protective measures, (Category B),
limited to direct Federal assistance, under
the Public Assistance program.
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used
for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030,
Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora
Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling;
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034,
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA);
97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant;
97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to
Individuals and Households In Presidential
Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential
Declared Disaster Assistance—Disaster
Housing Operations for Individuals and
Households; 97.050 Presidential Declared
Disaster Assistance to Individuals and
Households—Other Needs, 97.036, Disaster
Grants—Public Assistance (Presidentially
Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard
Mitigation Grant.)
R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The notice
of an emergency declaration for the
State of Texas is hereby amended to
include the following areas among those
areas determined to have been adversely
affected by the catastrophe declared an
emergency by the President in his
declaration of March 14, 2008.
R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
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[FEMA–1751–DR]
Federal Emergency Management
Agency
Arkansas; Major Disaster and Related
Determinations
[FEMA–3284–EM]
AGENCY:
Texas; Amendment No. 2 to Notice of
an Emergency Declaration
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice
of an emergency declaration for the
State of Texas (FEMA–3284–EM), dated
March 14, 2008, and related
determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
March 27, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance
Directorate, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705.
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Federal Emergency
Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This is a notice of the
Presidential declaration of a major
disaster for the State of Arkansas
(FEMA–1751–DR), dated March 26,
2008, and related determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance
Directorate, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646–2705.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given that, in a letter dated
March 26, 2008, the President declared
a major disaster under the authority of
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
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and Emergency Assistance Act, 42
U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the Stafford Act), as
follows:
I have determined that the damage in
certain areas of the State of Arkansas
resulting from severe storms, tornadoes, and
flooding beginning on March 18, 2008, and
continuing, is of sufficient severity and
magnitude to warrant a major disaster
declaration under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121–5206 (the Stafford
Act). Therefore, I declare that such a major
disaster exists in the State of Arkansas.
In order to provide Federal assistance, you
are hereby authorized to allocate from funds
available for these purposes such amounts as
you find necessary for Federal disaster
assistance and administrative expenses.
You are authorized to provide assistance
for emergency protective measures (Category
B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under
the Public Assistance program in the
designated areas and any other forms of
assistance under the Stafford Act that you
deem appropriate subject to completion of
Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDAs),
unless you determine that the incident is of
such unusual severity and magnitude that
PDAs are not required to determine the need
for supplemental Federal assistance pursuant
to 44 CFR § 206.33(d).
Consistent with the requirement that
Federal assistance be supplemental, any
Federal funds provided under the Stafford
Act for Public Assistance will be limited to
75 percent of the total eligible costs, except
for any particular projects that are eligible for
a higher Federal cost-sharing percentage
under the FEMA Public Assistance Pilot
Program instituted pursuant to 6 U.S.C.
§ 777. If Other Needs Assistance and Hazard
Mitigation are later warranted, Federal
funding under these programs will also be
limited to 75 percent of the total eligible
costs.
Further, you are authorized to make
changes to this declaration to the extent
allowable under the Stafford Act.
The Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice that
pursuant to the authority vested in the
Administrator, Department of Homeland
Security, under Executive Order 12148,
as amended, Kenneth M. Riley, of
FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal
Coordinating Officer for this declared
disaster.
I do hereby determine the following
areas of the State of Arkansas to have
been affected adversely by this declared
major disaster:
Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay,
Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Faulkner,
Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hot Spring,
Howard, Independence, Izard, Jackson,
Johnson, Lawrence, Logan, Madison, Marion,
Nevada, Newton, Pope, Randolph, Scott,
Searcy, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren,
Washington, White, Woodruff, and Yell
Counties for emergency protective measures
(Category B), limited to direct Federal
assistance, under the Public Assistance
program.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[FEMA-3284-EM]
Texas; Amendment No. 1 to Notice of an Emergency Declaration
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice of an emergency declaration for
the State of Texas (FEMA-3284-EM), dated March 14, 2008, and related
determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 24, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2705.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice of an emergency declaration for
the State of Texas is hereby amended to include the following areas
among those areas determined to have been adversely affected by the
catastrophe declared an emergency by the President in his declaration
of March 14, 2008.
Aransas, Austin, Bee, Bowie, Brazos, Calhoun, Cameron, Dallam,
Dallas, Donley, Fayette, Freestone, Galveston, Grimes, Hardin,
Harrison, Hartley, Henderson, Jasper, Leon, Newton, Ochiltree,
Panola, Sabine, San Patricio, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman, Smith,
Titus, Tyler, and Upshur Counties for emergency protective measures
(Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public
Assistance program.
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA)
are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community
Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling;
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment
Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 97.048,
Disaster Housing Assistance to Individuals and Households In
Presidential Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential Declared
Disaster Assistance--Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and
Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance to
Individuals and Households--Other Needs, 97.036, Disaster Grants--
Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039,
Hazard Mitigation Grant.)
R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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