Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and Automatic Identification System, 3534-3535 [E9-1135]

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In addition, employers must use the fit-testing exercises specified in section I.A.14 of this appendix when administering this protocol, except that test subjects must not perform the fit-testing exercises specified by paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of section I.A.14 (i.e., the initial normal-breathing exercise and the deep-breathing exercise, respectively). Test subjects must perform these fit-testing exercises for at least 40 seconds, except for the grimace exercise, Overall Fit Factor = Note to Paragraph (d)(3): Only five of the eight fit-testing exercises are used in this calculation because test subjects do not perform the initial normal-breathing exercise (ff1) and the deep-breathing exercise (ff2), and the results for the grimace exercise (ff6) are not included in the calculation. * * * * * [FR Doc. E9–922 Filed 1–16–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–26–P DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Coast Guard 33 CFR Parts 160, 161, 164, and 165 [USCG–2005–21869] RIN 1625–AA99 Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and Automatic Identification System Coast Guard, DHS. Notice of public meeting; request for comments. AGENCY: mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with PROPOSALS ACTION: SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces a public meeting to receive comments on a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend Coast Guard regulations governing Notice of Arrival and Departure (NOAD) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) requirements. VerDate Nov<24>2008 18:22 Jan 16, 2009 Jkt 217001 5 1/ff3 + 1/ff 4 + 1/ff5 + 1/ff 7 + 1/ff8 DATES: A public meeting will be held on March 5, 2009, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. to provide an opportunity for oral comments. Written comments and related material may also be submitted to Coast Guard personnel specified at that meeting. The comment period for the proposed rule closes April 15, 2009. All comments and related material submitted after the meeting must either be submitted to our online docket via https://www.regulations.gov on or before April 15, 2009, or reach the Docket Management Facility by that date. ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at the United States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, Room 2415, 2100 2nd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593; a government-issued photo identification (for example, a driver’s license) will be required for entrance to the building. You may submit written comments identified by docket number USCG– 2005–21869 before or after the meeting using any one of the following methods: (1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. (2) Fax: 202–493–2251. (3) Mail: Docket Management Facility (M–30), U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590– 0001. (4) Hand delivery: Same as mail address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except PO 00000 Frm 00085 which test subjects must perform for 15 seconds. (2) This protocol requires the following minimum pass-fail fit-testing criteria: for half masks, an overall fit factor of 200 (instead of the usual 100); and, for full-facepiece respirators, an overall fit factor of 1,000 (instead of the usual 500). (3) Calculate the overall fit factor for this protocol as follows: Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 Federal holidays. The telephone number is 202–366–9329. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods. Our online docket for this rulemaking is available on the Internet at https:// www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG–2005–21869. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions concerning the NOAD portion of this proposed rulemaking or concerning the public meeting, please contact Lieutenant Sharmine Jones, Office of Vessel Activities (CG–543), Coast Guard, Sharmine.N.Jones@uscg.mil, telephone 202–372–1234. If you have questions on the AIS portion of this proposed rulemaking, contact Mr. Jorge Arroyo, Office of Navigation Systems (CG–5413), Coast Guard, Jorge.Arroyo@uscg.mil, telephone 202–372–1563. If you have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202–366–9826. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background and Purpose We published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register on December 16, 2008 (73 FR 76295), entitled ‘‘Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and Automatic Identification System.’’ In it we stated our intention to hold a public meeting, and to publish a notice E:\FR\FM\21JAP1.SGM 21JAP1 EP21JA09.122</GPH> * section I.A.14 of this appendix when administering this protocol. Test subjects must perform these fit-testing exercises for at least 30 seconds, except for the grimace exercise, which test subjects must perform for 15 seconds. (2) Calculate the overall fit factor for this protocol as follows: EP21JA09.126</GPH> Appendix A to § 1910.134: Fit Testing Procedures (Mandatory) mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 12 / Wednesday, January 21, 2009 / Proposed Rules to announce the location and date of the public meeting. 73 FR 76296. In this notice, we announce that public meeting to receive comments on this proposed rule. In the NPRM, we proposed to expand the applicability of Notice of Arrival and Departure (NOAD) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) requirements to more commercial vessels, modify NOAD reporting requirements, establish a mandatory method for electronic data submission and establish a separate requirement for certain vessels to submit notices of departure. The proposed rulemaking would also clarify existing AIS requirements and extend the applicability of AIS requirements beyond Vessel Traffic Service areas to all U.S. navigable waters. You may view the NPRM in our online docket, in addition to supporting documents prepared by the Coast Guard (Regulatory Analysis & Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Homeland Security Regulatory Analyses—Final Report June 2008, and an Environmental Checklist), and comments submitted thus far by going to https:// www.regulations.gov. Once there, select the Advanced Docket Search option on the right side of the screen, insert USCG–2005–21869 in the Docket ID box, press Enter, and then click on the item in the Docket ID column. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may view the docket online by visiting the Docket Management Facility in Room W12–140 on the ground floor of the Department of Transportation West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation to use the Docket Management Facility. We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting comments either orally at the meeting or in writing. If you bring written comments to the meeting, you may submit them to Coast Guard personnel specified at the meeting to receive written comments. These comments will be submitted to our online public docket. All comments received will be posted without change to https:// www.regulations.gov and will include any personal information you have provided. Anyone can search the electronic form of comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor VerDate Nov<24>2008 16:26 Jan 16, 2009 Jkt 217001 union, etc.). You may review a Privacy Act notice regarding our public dockets in the January 17, 2008 issue of the Federal Register (73 FR 3316). Information on Service for Individuals With Disabilities For information on facilities or services for individuals with disabilities or to request special assistance at the public meeting, contact Lieutenant Sharmine Jones at the telephone number indicated under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Public Meeting The Coast Guard will hold a public meeting regarding this proposed rulemaking on March 5, 2009, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., at the United States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, Room 2415, 2100 2nd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593. A government-issued photo identification (for example, a driver’s license) will be required for entrance to the building. Parking near the building is limited. Public transportation to the building (Bus Route 71) is limited to rush hours, approximately 6 to 9:30 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Contact the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for additional information at 202–637–7000 or https://www.wmata.com/. We plan to record this meeting using an audio-digital recorder and to make that audio recording available through a link in our online docket. We will also provide a written summary of the meeting and comments and will place that summary in the docket. Dated: January 13, 2009. M.L. Blair, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards. [FR Doc. E9–1135 Filed 1–16–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–15–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 38 CFR Part 17 RIN 2900–AN23 Expansion of Enrollment in the VA Health Care System Department of Veterans Affairs. Proposed rule. AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposes to amend its regulations regarding enrollment in the VA health care system. In particular, it proposes to establish additional subpriorities within enrollment priority PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 3535 category 8 and provide that beginning on the effective date of the rule, VA would enroll priority category 8 veterans whose income exceeds the current means test and geographic means test income thresholds by 10 percent or less. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before February 20, 2009. ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted through https:// www.Regulations.gov; by mail or handdelivery to the Director, Regulations Management (02REG), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave., NW., Room 1068, Washington, DC 20420; or by fax to (202) 273–9026. Comments should indicate that they are submitted in response to ‘‘RIN 2900– AN23—Expansion of Enrollment.’’ Copies of comments received will be available for public inspection in the Office of Regulation Policy and Management, Room 1063B, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays). Please call (202) 461–4902 for an appointment. In addition, during the comment period, comments may be viewed online through the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at https:// www.Regulations.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tony Guagliardo, Director, Business Policy, Chief Business Office (163), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461–1591. (This is not a toll free number.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 104–262, the Veterans’ Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, required VA to establish a national enrollment system to manage the delivery of inpatient hospital care and outpatient medical care, within available appropriated resources. It directed that the enrollment system be managed in such a way as ‘‘to ensure that the provision of care to enrollees is timely and acceptable in quality,’’ and authorized such subprioritization of the statutory enrollment categories ‘‘as the Secretary determines necessary.’’ The law also provided that starting October 1, 1998, most veterans had to enroll in the VA health care system as a condition for receiving VA hospital and outpatient care. In a document published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2003 (68 FR 2670), VA published an interim final rule that amended 38 CFR 17.36 to add two new subpriorities to both enrollment priority categories 7 and 8, for a total of four subpriorities in each category. It also announced that E:\FR\FM\21JAP1.SGM 21JAP1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 21, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 3534-3535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1135]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Parts 160, 161, 164, and 165

[USCG-2005-21869]
RIN 1625-AA99


Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and 
Automatic Identification System

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces a public meeting to receive comments 
on a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend Coast Guard regulations 
governing Notice of Arrival and Departure (NOAD) and Automatic 
Identification System (AIS) requirements.

DATES: A public meeting will be held on March 5, 2009, from 12:30 p.m. 
to 3 p.m. to provide an opportunity for oral comments. Written comments 
and related material may also be submitted to Coast Guard personnel 
specified at that meeting. The comment period for the proposed rule 
closes April 15, 2009. All comments and related material submitted 
after the meeting must either be submitted to our online docket via 
https://www.regulations.gov on or before April 15, 2009, or reach the 
Docket Management Facility by that date.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at the United States Coast 
Guard Headquarters Building, Room 2415, 2100 2nd Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20593; a government-issued photo identification (for 
example, a driver's license) will be required for entrance to the 
building.
    You may submit written comments identified by docket number USCG-
2005-21869 before or after the meeting using any one of the following 
methods:
    (1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
    (2) Fax: 202-493-2251.
    (3) Mail: Docket Management Facility (M-30), U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (4) Hand delivery: Same as mail address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone 
number is 202-366-9329.
    To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods. 
Our online docket for this rulemaking is available on the Internet at 
https://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-2005-21869.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions concerning the 
NOAD portion of this proposed rulemaking or concerning the public 
meeting, please contact Lieutenant Sharmine Jones, Office of Vessel 
Activities (CG-543), Coast Guard, Sharmine.N.Jones@uscg.mil, telephone 
202-372-1234. If you have questions on the AIS portion of this proposed 
rulemaking, contact Mr. Jorge Arroyo, Office of Navigation Systems (CG-
5413), Coast Guard, Jorge.Arroyo@uscg.mil, telephone 202-372-1563. If 
you have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, 
call Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 
202-366-9826.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background and Purpose

    We published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal 
Register on December 16, 2008 (73 FR 76295), entitled ``Vessel 
Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure, and Automatic 
Identification System.'' In it we stated our intention to hold a public 
meeting, and to publish a notice

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to announce the location and date of the public meeting. 73 FR 76296. 
In this notice, we announce that public meeting to receive comments on 
this proposed rule.
    In the NPRM, we proposed to expand the applicability of Notice of 
Arrival and Departure (NOAD) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) 
requirements to more commercial vessels, modify NOAD reporting 
requirements, establish a mandatory method for electronic data 
submission and establish a separate requirement for certain vessels to 
submit notices of departure. The proposed rulemaking would also clarify 
existing AIS requirements and extend the applicability of AIS 
requirements beyond Vessel Traffic Service areas to all U.S. navigable 
waters.
    You may view the NPRM in our online docket, in addition to 
supporting documents prepared by the Coast Guard (Regulatory Analysis & 
Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Valuing Mortality Risk 
Reductions in Homeland Security Regulatory Analyses--Final Report June 
2008, and an Environmental Checklist), and comments submitted thus far 
by going to https://www.regulations.gov. Once there, select the Advanced 
Docket Search option on the right side of the screen, insert USCG-2005-
21869 in the Docket ID box, press Enter, and then click on the item in 
the Docket ID column. If you do not have access to the Internet, you 
may view the docket online by visiting the Docket Management Facility 
in Room W12-140 on the ground floor of the Department of Transportation 
West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, 
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation to 
use the Docket Management Facility.
    We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting 
comments either orally at the meeting or in writing. If you bring 
written comments to the meeting, you may submit them to Coast Guard 
personnel specified at the meeting to receive written comments. These 
comments will be submitted to our online public docket. All comments 
received will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov 
and will include any personal information you have provided.
    Anyone can search the electronic form of comments received into any 
of our dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or 
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association, 
business, labor union, etc.). You may review a Privacy Act notice 
regarding our public dockets in the January 17, 2008 issue of the 
Federal Register (73 FR 3316).

Information on Service for Individuals With Disabilities

    For information on facilities or services for individuals with 
disabilities or to request special assistance at the public meeting, 
contact Lieutenant Sharmine Jones at the telephone number indicated 
under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice.

Public Meeting

    The Coast Guard will hold a public meeting regarding this proposed 
rulemaking on March 5, 2009, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., at the United 
States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, Room 2415, 2100 2nd Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20593. A government-issued photo identification 
(for example, a driver's license) will be required for entrance to the 
building.
    Parking near the building is limited. Public transportation to the 
building (Bus Route 71) is limited to rush hours, approximately 6 to 
9:30 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Contact the Washington Metropolitan Area 
Transit Authority for additional information at 202-637-7000 or https://
www.wmata.com/.
    We plan to record this meeting using an audio-digital recorder and 
to make that audio recording available through a link in our online 
docket. We will also provide a written summary of the meeting and 
comments and will place that summary in the docket.

    Dated: January 13, 2009.
M.L. Blair,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director of Commercial Regulations 
and Standards.
 [FR Doc. E9-1135 Filed 1-16-09; 8:45 am]
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