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As authorized by 46 U.S.C.
12121, the Secretary of Transportation,
as represented by the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), is authorized
to grant waivers of the U.S.-build
requirement of the coastwise laws under
certain circumstances. A request for
such a waiver has been received by
MARAD. The vessel, and a brief
description of the proposed service, is
listed below.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
November 27, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2013–0118.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments will become part of this
docket and will be available for
inspection and copying at the above
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
E.T., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
comments. Comments should also state
the commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR Part 388.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
Linda Williams, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Room W23–453,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–0903, Email Linda.Williams@
dot.gov.
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Intended Commercial Use of Vessel:
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Geographic Region: ‘‘New Jersey,
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Carolina, South Carolina.’’
The complete application is given in
DOT docket MARAD–2013–0118 at
https://www.regulations.gov. Interested
parties may comment on the effect this
action may have on U.S. vessel builders
or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in
accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and
MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part
388, that the issuance of the waiver will
have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.vessel builder or a business that uses
U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a
waiver will not be granted. Comments
should refer to the docket number of
this notice and the vessel name in order
for MARAD to properly consider the
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Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all 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 DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78).
Dated: October 22, 2013.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Julie P. Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2013–0101]
National Maritime Strategy
Symposium: Cargo Opportunities and
Sealift Capacity
Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of solicitation for agenda
topics for a public meeting.
The Maritime Administration
(MARAD) invites the public and other
Marine Transportation System
stakeholders to participate in a
discussion intended to develop a robust
national maritime strategy. The purpose
of this public meeting is to gather ideas
for improving the Nation’s cargo
opportunities and sealift capacity while
ensuring future sustainability. Speaker
and topic proposals for the public
meeting’s agenda are requested and may
be submitted to the docket referenced
above. The meeting agenda will be
published in the docket and on the
MARAD Web site at a later date, after
consideration of responses received in
the docket.
DATES: We plan to hold the public
meeting from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
daily, January 14 through January 16,
2014.
Key Date: The deadline to submit
agenda topics and ideas for discussion
is November 29, 2013.
See Submitting your agenda topics,
comments and ideas below for specific
directions.
SUMMARY:
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The following are other important
anticipated dates and deadlines:
Agenda released on MARAD docket and
MARAD website; Registration
opens—December 17, 2013
Deadline to register to attend the public
meeting in person—January 3, 2014
Deadline to register to speak in person,
speak by calling in, or to listen only
by phone—January 3, 2014
Deadline to submit digital presentation
materials—January 3, 2014
Call-in and Listen-only information
distributed to registrants—January 8,
2014
Public Meeting—January 14–16, 2014
9:00 a.m.– 4:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be
held in the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) West Atrium,
located on the ground floor of 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590. Overflow seating will be
available in adjacent conference rooms.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christine S. Gurland, Assistant Chief
Counsel for Legislation and Regulations,
Office of Chief Counsel, MAR–225,
Maritime Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC 20590;
(202) 366–5157; email:
Christine.Gurland@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Marine Transportation System is
a core component of the United States’
economic and national security. While
it has proven to be strong and resilient,
there is a need to improve and grow the
industry to ensure the availability and
viability of a U.S. Merchant Marine in
the future. The historic strength of the
United States as a maritime Nation
relies on its global, coastal and inland
commercial fleet, its ports and
intermodal facilities, the national
security establishment and the maritime
workforce that supports and operates
U.S.-flagged vessels. The purpose of this
public meeting is to generate ideas that
will improve, strengthen and sustain the
cargo opportunities and sealift capacity.
Those ideas will necessarily be focused
on the U. S. Marine Transportation
System.
Request for Public Input to Meeting
Agenda and Topics for Discussion
1. The agenda for the meeting will be
developed in collaboration with the
public. The public is invited to propose
agenda topics and to comment on the
ideas submitted by others at https://
www.regulations.gov, DOT Docket
Number MARAD–2013–0101.
2. Proposed agenda items should
focus on, but are not limited to, the
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following topics: fostering and
improving the U.S.-flag fleet; improving
transportation efficiency, speed,
availability and cost-effectiveness;
methods to improve overall U.S.
economic competitiveness though
improvements to the Marine
Transportation System; improving
transportation efficiency through
interoperability with existing
infrastructure systems and other modes
of transportation; reduction of marine
transportation pollution and adverse
environmental impact; expansion of the
pool of skilled and available U.S.
mariners; developing strategically
valuable capacity; increasing
economical waterborne carriage for U.S.
businesses; improving U.S. port
operations and related businesses;
improvement of global business and
employment opportunities for the
Nation; and fostering the construction
and repair of vessels in U.S. shipyards.
3. Please provide a brief narrative to
describe each topic you would like the
public meeting to address. This
information will help ensure proper
coverage of the many topics and ideas
we anticipate to be proposed. To ensure
that comments are most useful in
development of the meeting agenda and
informing our deliberation and decision
process, please provide citations to
statutes or regulations to which you
refer and supply any supporting
information that would assist MARAD
in establishing the agenda.
4. If you would like to propose a topic
or an idea and would like to make a
presentation on that topic or idea,
please indicate your desire to make a
presentation and that you will provide
a summary paper or presentation
materials in support of that topic or idea
you are proposing for the agenda.
Supporting materials can be submitted
to the docket at a later date.
5. Comments received during
development of the meeting agenda and
any subsequent review will provide
meaningful and significant information
for senior MARAD officials considering
topics to be discussed at the public
meeting. We will endeavor to include
all relevant topics proposed in the
meeting agenda.
6. We will post the public meeting
agenda to the docket at https://
www.regulations.gov and on our Web
site at https://www.MARAD.dot.gov by
December 17, 2013.
Submitting Your Agenda Topics,
Comments, and Ideas
1. We have opened a docket at
https://www.regulations.gov to allow for
submission of written proposals of
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agenda items for the National Maritime
Strategy Symposium.
2. You may submit your inputs
identified by DOT Docket Number
MARAD–2013–0101 by any of the
following methods: Web site/Federal
eRulemaking Portal, Fax, Mail or Hand
Delivery. Please use only one of these
means for each submission. All
submissions must include the agency
name and docket number for this
matter. Specific instructions follow.
3. For the Web site/Federal
eRulemaking Portal, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
on the electronic docket site. To submit
your input, type the docket number
(MARAD–2013–0101) in the ‘‘SEARCH’’
box and click ‘‘SEARCH.’’ Click on
‘‘Submit a Comment’’ on the line
associated with this Docket Number. If
you submit an agenda topic, comment
or idea online via www.regulations.gov,
please note that inputs submitted to
www.regulations.gov are not
immediately posted to the site. It may
take several business days before your
submission will be posted on the
electronic docket.
4. For submission by telefacsimile/
FAX, transmit your agenda topic,
comment or idea to (202) 493–2251. Be
sure to identify the submission by DOT
Docket Number MARAD–2013–0101.
5. Submissions by Mail or Hand
Delivery should go to Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except on Federal
holidays. If you submit your inputs by
mail or hand delivery, submit them in
an unbound format, no larger than
81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for copying
and electronic filing. If you submit
comments by mail and would like to
know that they reached the Facility,
please enclose a stamped, self-addressed
postcard or envelope.
6. If you FAX, mail or hand deliver
your input we recommend that you
include your name and a mailing
address, an email address or a telephone
number in the body of your document
so that we can contact you if we have
questions regarding your submission.
7. Note: All agenda topics, comments
or ideas submitted for this purpose,
including any personal information
provided, will be posted without change
to https://www.regulations.gov.
8. For access to the docket to read
background documents or inputs
received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12–140 of the Department of
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Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590,
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
Holidays. To view the docket
electronically, type the docket number
‘‘MARAD–2013–0101’’ in the
‘‘SEARCH’’ box and click ‘‘Search.’’
Click and Open Docket Folder on the
line associated with this rulemaking.
Anticipated Public Meeting Procedures
1. Additional details and registration
instructions will be provided when the
meeting and final agenda are announced
in December.
2. The meeting is intended to collect
public views and gather information to
consider in developing a new maritime
strategy. Therefore, the meeting will be
conducted in an informal and nonadversarial manner.
3. The Maritime Administrator will
preside over the public meeting. Senior
Department and MARAD officials will
also attend this meeting to receive
comments from the public. During the
meeting, we may ask questions that will
clarify statements or gather more
information or data to help us
understand the issues raised by
commenters.
4. Those who wish to speak during
the meeting will be requested to advise,
no later than November 29th, what topic
or topics they would like to address
through a presentation or on which they
would like to comment; presentations
and amplifying information will be
welcome but are not required. We hope
to be able to accommodate everyone
who would like to speak at the meeting,
but if there are more interested
participants than time available, we will
limit participants in order of date and
time of registration. If available, time
will be allotted to those attending the
meeting in person to speak, even if they
had not previously registered to speak.
For those who wish to make comments,
but for whom there is not time available
or who do not wish to speak, it will be
possible to post comments to the public
docket. [See also Submitting your
agenda topics, comments, and ideas
section.]
5. The public meeting will be
broadcast via live Web streaming by a
link from https://www.MARAD.dot.gov
and a listen-only telephone connection
for which participants will need to
register at a later date. Members of the
public will be invited to make
comments in person at the venue,
through a call-in number, or by entry in
the MARAD docket. Further details
regarding the logistics of the public
meeting will be published in a second
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notice in the Federal Register prior to
the meeting.
6. A transcript of the public meeting
will be made available via our Web site
at https://www.MARAD.dot.gov and
posted to the docket at
www.regulations.gov. The recorded
webcast video will remain available
following the meeting via a link from
our Web site at www.MARAD.dot.gov.
risks of commercial disruption, may be
eligible to participate in the VISA
program.
The mission of VISA is to provide
commercial sealift and intermodal
shipping services and systems,
including vessels, vessel space,
intermodal systems and equipment,
terminal facilities, and related
management services, to the Department
of Defense (DOD), as necessary, to meet
national defense contingency
requirements or national emergencies.
Carriers enrolled in the VISA program
provide DOD with assured access to
such services during contingencies. In
return for their VISA commitment, DOD
gives VISA participants priority for
peacetime cargos.
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VISA Concept
Submit applications and
questions related to this notice to
Jerome D. Davis, Director, Office of
Sealift Support, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone (202) 366–0688; Fax (202)
366–5904.
The VISA program provides for the
staged, time-phased availability of
participants’ shipping services/systems
through pre-negotiated contracts
between the Government and
participants. Such arrangements are
jointly planned with the MARAD,
USTRANSCOM, and participants in
peacetime to allow effective and best
valued use of commercial sealift
capacity, provide DOD assured
contingency access, and to minimize
commercial disruption.
There are three time-phased stages in
the event of VISA activation. VISA
Stages I and II provide for prenegotiated contracts between DOD and
participants to provide sealift capacity
to meet all projected DOD contingency
requirements. These contracts are
executed in accordance with approved
DOD contracting methodologies. VISA
Stage III provides for additional capacity
to DOD when Stages I and II
commitments or volunteered capacity
are insufficient to meet contingency
requirements, and adequate shipping
services from non-participants are not
available through established DOD
contracting practices or U.S.
Government treaty agreements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Exceptions to This Open Season
AGENCY:
Jerome D. Davis, Director, Office of
Sealift Support, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone (202) 366–0688; Fax (202)
366–5904, or visit https://
www.marad.dot.gov.
The only exception to this open
season period for VISA enrollment will
be for a non-VISA carrier that reflags a
vessel into U.S. registry. That carrier
may submit an application to participate
in the VISA program at any time upon
completion of reflagging.
ACTION:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Privacy Act Statement
Anyone is able to search all comments
entered 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 DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476, 04/11/2011) or at https://
www.dot.gov/privacy.html.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 610; E.O., 13563, 76 FR
3821, Jan. 21 2011; E.O. 12866, 58 FR 51735,
Oct. 4, 1993.
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Dated: October 23, 2013.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Julie Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013–25396 Filed 10–25–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Voluntary Intermodal Sealift
Agreement Open Season
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice of open season for
enrollment in the VISA program.
The Maritime Administration
(MARAD) announces that the open
season for Fiscal Year 2014 applications
for participation in the Voluntary
Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA)
program will run for 30 days beginning
today and ending November 27, 2013.
The purpose of this notice is to invite
interested, qualified U.S.-flag vessel
operators that are not currently enrolled
in the VISA program to apply. This is
the only planned enrollment period for
carriers to join the VISA program and
derive benefits for Department of
Defense (DOD) peacetime contracts
initiated during the period from October
1, 2013, through September 30, 2014.
Any U.S.-flag vessel operator
organized under the laws of a state of
the United States, or the District of
Columbia, who is able and willing to
commit militarily useful sealift assets
and assume the related consequential
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VISA Program applications must
be received on or before November 27,
2013.
DATES:
ADDRESSES:
The VISA
program was established pursuant to
Section 708 of the Defense Production
Act of 1950, as amended (DPA). The
VISA program was created to provide
for voluntary agreements for emergency
preparedness programs. Pursuant to the
DPA, voluntary agreements for
preparedness programs, including the
VISA program expire five (5) years after
the date they became effective.
The VISA program is open to U.S.-flag
vessel operators of oceangoing militarily
useful vessels, to include tugs and
barges. An operator is defined as an
owner or bareboat charterer of a vessel.
Tug enrollment alone does not satisfy
VISA eligibility. Operators include
vessel owners and bareboat charter
operators if satisfactory signed
agreements are in place committing the
assets of the owner to VISA. Voyage and
space charterers are not considered
U.S.-flag vessel operators for purposes
of VISA eligibility.
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Advantages of Peacetime Participation
In return for their VISA commitment,
DOD awards peacetime cargo contracts
to VISA participants on a priority basis.
Award of DOD cargoes to meet DOD
peacetime and contingency
requirements is made on the basis of the
following priorities: U.S.-flag vessel
capacity operated by VISA participants
and U.S.-flag Vessel Sharing Agreement
(VSA) capacity held by VISA
participants; U.S.-flag vessel capacity
operated by non-participants;
Combination U.S.-flag/foreign-flag
vessel capacity operated by VISA
participants, and combination U.S.-flag/
foreign-flag VSA capacity held by VISA
participants; Combination U.S.-flag/
foreign-flag vessel capacity operated by
non-participants; U.S.-owned or
operated foreign-flag vessel capacity and
VSA capacity held by VISA
participants; U.S.-owned or operated
foreign-flag vessel capacity and VSA
capacity held by non-participants; and
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD-2013-0101]
National Maritime Strategy Symposium: Cargo Opportunities and
Sealift Capacity
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of solicitation for agenda topics for a public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration (MARAD) invites the public and
other Marine Transportation System stakeholders to participate in a
discussion intended to develop a robust national maritime strategy. The
purpose of this public meeting is to gather ideas for improving the
Nation's cargo opportunities and sealift capacity while ensuring future
sustainability. Speaker and topic proposals for the public meeting's
agenda are requested and may be submitted to the docket referenced
above. The meeting agenda will be published in the docket and on the
MARAD Web site at a later date, after consideration of responses
received in the docket.
DATES: We plan to hold the public meeting from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
daily, January 14 through January 16, 2014.
Key Date: The deadline to submit agenda topics and ideas for
discussion is November 29, 2013.
See Submitting your agenda topics, comments and ideas below for
specific directions.
The following are other important anticipated dates and deadlines:
Agenda released on MARAD docket and MARAD website; Registration opens--
December 17, 2013
Deadline to register to attend the public meeting in person--January 3,
2014
Deadline to register to speak in person, speak by calling in, or to
listen only by phone--January 3, 2014
Deadline to submit digital presentation materials--January 3, 2014
Call-in and Listen-only information distributed to registrants--January
8, 2014
Public Meeting--January 14-16, 2014 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held in the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) West Atrium, located on the ground floor of 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Overflow seating will be
available in adjacent conference rooms.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine S. Gurland, Assistant Chief
Counsel for Legislation and Regulations, Office of Chief Counsel, MAR-
225, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC
20590; (202) 366-5157; email: Christine.Gurland@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Marine Transportation System is a core component of the United
States' economic and national security. While it has proven to be
strong and resilient, there is a need to improve and grow the industry
to ensure the availability and viability of a U.S. Merchant Marine in
the future. The historic strength of the United States as a maritime
Nation relies on its global, coastal and inland commercial fleet, its
ports and intermodal facilities, the national security establishment
and the maritime workforce that supports and operates U.S.-flagged
vessels. The purpose of this public meeting is to generate ideas that
will improve, strengthen and sustain the cargo opportunities and
sealift capacity. Those ideas will necessarily be focused on the U. S.
Marine Transportation System.
Request for Public Input to Meeting Agenda and Topics for Discussion
1. The agenda for the meeting will be developed in collaboration
with the public. The public is invited to propose agenda topics and to
comment on the ideas submitted by others at https://www.regulations.gov,
DOT Docket Number MARAD-2013-0101.
2. Proposed agenda items should focus on, but are not limited to,
the
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following topics: fostering and improving the U.S.-flag fleet;
improving transportation efficiency, speed, availability and cost-
effectiveness; methods to improve overall U.S. economic competitiveness
though improvements to the Marine Transportation System; improving
transportation efficiency through interoperability with existing
infrastructure systems and other modes of transportation; reduction of
marine transportation pollution and adverse environmental impact;
expansion of the pool of skilled and available U.S. mariners;
developing strategically valuable capacity; increasing economical
waterborne carriage for U.S. businesses; improving U.S. port operations
and related businesses; improvement of global business and employment
opportunities for the Nation; and fostering the construction and repair
of vessels in U.S. shipyards.
3. Please provide a brief narrative to describe each topic you
would like the public meeting to address. This information will help
ensure proper coverage of the many topics and ideas we anticipate to be
proposed. To ensure that comments are most useful in development of the
meeting agenda and informing our deliberation and decision process,
please provide citations to statutes or regulations to which you refer
and supply any supporting information that would assist MARAD in
establishing the agenda.
4. If you would like to propose a topic or an idea and would like
to make a presentation on that topic or idea, please indicate your
desire to make a presentation and that you will provide a summary paper
or presentation materials in support of that topic or idea you are
proposing for the agenda. Supporting materials can be submitted to the
docket at a later date.
5. Comments received during development of the meeting agenda and
any subsequent review will provide meaningful and significant
information for senior MARAD officials considering topics to be
discussed at the public meeting. We will endeavor to include all
relevant topics proposed in the meeting agenda.
6. We will post the public meeting agenda to the docket at https://www.regulations.gov and on our Web site at https://www.MARAD.dot.gov by
December 17, 2013.
Submitting Your Agenda Topics, Comments, and Ideas
1. We have opened a docket at https://www.regulations.gov to allow
for submission of written proposals of agenda items for the National
Maritime Strategy Symposium.
2. You may submit your inputs identified by DOT Docket Number
MARAD-2013-0101 by any of the following methods: Web site/Federal
eRulemaking Portal, Fax, Mail or Hand Delivery. Please use only one of
these means for each submission. All submissions must include the
agency name and docket number for this matter. Specific instructions
follow.
3. For the Web site/Federal eRulemaking Portal, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments on
the electronic docket site. To submit your input, type the docket
number (MARAD-2013-0101) in the ``SEARCH'' box and click ``SEARCH.''
Click on ``Submit a Comment'' on the line associated with this Docket
Number. If you submit an agenda topic, comment or idea online via
www.regulations.gov, please note that inputs submitted to
www.regulations.gov are not immediately posted to the site. It may take
several business days before your submission will be posted on the
electronic docket.
4. For submission by telefacsimile/FAX, transmit your agenda topic,
comment or idea to (202) 493-2251. Be sure to identify the submission
by DOT Docket Number MARAD-2013-0101.
5. Submissions by Mail or Hand Delivery should go to Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal
holidays. If you submit your inputs by mail or hand delivery, submit
them in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable
for copying and electronic filing. If you submit comments by mail and
would like to know that they reached the Facility, please enclose a
stamped, self-addressed postcard or envelope.
6. If you FAX, mail or hand deliver your input we recommend that
you include your name and a mailing address, an email address or a
telephone number in the body of your document so that we can contact
you if we have questions regarding your submission.
7. Note: All agenda topics, comments or ideas submitted for this
purpose, including any personal information provided, will be posted
without change to https://www.regulations.gov.
8. For access to the docket to read background documents or inputs
received, go to https://www.regulations.gov at any time or to Room W12-
140 of the Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal Holidays. To view the docket electronically,
type the docket number ``MARAD-2013-0101'' in the ``SEARCH'' box and
click ``Search.'' Click and Open Docket Folder on the line associated
with this rulemaking.
Anticipated Public Meeting Procedures
1. Additional details and registration instructions will be
provided when the meeting and final agenda are announced in December.
2. The meeting is intended to collect public views and gather
information to consider in developing a new maritime strategy.
Therefore, the meeting will be conducted in an informal and non-
adversarial manner.
3. The Maritime Administrator will preside over the public meeting.
Senior Department and MARAD officials will also attend this meeting to
receive comments from the public. During the meeting, we may ask
questions that will clarify statements or gather more information or
data to help us understand the issues raised by commenters.
4. Those who wish to speak during the meeting will be requested to
advise, no later than November 29th, what topic or topics they would
like to address through a presentation or on which they would like to
comment; presentations and amplifying information will be welcome but
are not required. We hope to be able to accommodate everyone who would
like to speak at the meeting, but if there are more interested
participants than time available, we will limit participants in order
of date and time of registration. If available, time will be allotted
to those attending the meeting in person to speak, even if they had not
previously registered to speak. For those who wish to make comments,
but for whom there is not time available or who do not wish to speak,
it will be possible to post comments to the public docket. [See also
Submitting your agenda topics, comments, and ideas section.]
5. The public meeting will be broadcast via live Web streaming by a
link from https://www.MARAD.dot.gov and a listen-only telephone
connection for which participants will need to register at a later
date. Members of the public will be invited to make comments in person
at the venue, through a call-in number, or by entry in the MARAD
docket. Further details regarding the logistics of the public meeting
will be published in a second
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notice in the Federal Register prior to the meeting.
6. A transcript of the public meeting will be made available via
our Web site at https://www.MARAD.dot.gov and posted to the docket at
www.regulations.gov. The recorded webcast video will remain available
following the meeting via a link from our Web site at
www.MARAD.dot.gov.
Privacy Act Statement
Anyone is able to search all comments entered 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 DOT's complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476, 04/11/2011) or at https://www.dot.gov/privacy.html.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 610; E.O., 13563, 76 FR 3821, Jan. 21 2011;
E.O. 12866, 58 FR 51735, Oct. 4, 1993.
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Dated: October 23, 2013.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Julie Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-25396 Filed 10-25-13; 8:45 am]
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