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SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG–2009–0973]
Random Drug Testing Rate for
Covered Crewmembers for 2016
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of minimum random
drug testing rate.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard has set the
calendar year 2016 minimum random
drug testing rate at 25 percent of
covered crewmembers.
DATES: The minimum random drug
testing rate is effective January 1, 2016
through December 31, 2016. Marine
employers must submit their 2015
Management Information System (MIS)
reports no later than March 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Annual MIS reports may be
submitted by electronic submission to
the following Internet address: https://
homeport.uscg.mil/Drugtestreports.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this notice, please
contact Mr. Patrick Mannion, Drug and
Alcohol Program Manager, Office of
Investigations and Casualty Analysis
(CG–INV), U.S. Coast Guard
Headquarters, telephone 202–372–1033.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast
Guard requires marine employers to
establish random drug testing programs
for covered crewmembers on inspected
and uninspected vessels in accordance
with 46 CFR 16.230. Every marine
employer is required by 46 CFR 16.500
to collect and maintain a record of drug
testing program data for each calendar
year, and submit this data by 15 March
of the following year to the Coast Guard
in an annual MIS report.
Each year, the Coast Guard will
publish a notice reporting the results of
random drug testing for the previous
calendar year’s MIS data and the
minimum annual percentage rate for
SUMMARY:
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random drug testing for the next
calendar year. The purpose of setting a
minimum random drug testing rate is to
assist the Coast Guard in analyzing its
current approach for deterring and
detecting illegal drug abuse in the
maritime industry.
The Coast Guard announces that the
minimum random drug testing rate for
calendar year 2016 is 25 percent. The
Coast Guard may increase this rate if
MIS data indicates a qualitative
deficiency of reported data or the
positive random testing rate is greater
than 1.0 percent in accordance with 46
CFR 16.230(f)(2). MIS data for 2015
indicates that the positive rate is less
than one percent industry-wide (0.87
percent).
For 2016, the minimum random drug
testing rate will continue at 25 percent
of covered employees for the period of
January 1, 2016 through December 31,
2016 in accordance with 46 CFR
16.230(e).
Dated: January 6, 2016.
Verne B. Gifford, Jr.,
Captain, USCG, Director of Inspections and
Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG–2015–1120]
Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement: Broadband
Cellular and Satellite Communications
Exploratory Development
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of intent; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard announces
its intent to enter into a Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) with General Dynamics
Mission Systems, Inc., to investigate the
operational use of broadband cellular
technology, including equipment that
may be integrated into the National
Public Safety Broadband
Communication Band 14 LTE Network
(commonly called FirstNet). The
research also includes tactical
employment of Multiple User Objective
System (MUOS) Satellite
Communications and common
operational picture applications to
establish Coast Guard network centric
operations. A Pilot Demonstration
schedule has been proposed in which
General Dynamics will provide and
install their Band 14 LTE Network,
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Picture application, Satcom radios,
smart phones, vehicle routers, modems,
and antennas suitable for installation on
select Coast Guard surface vessels,
boarding teams, command center and
ground vehicles. LTE Network base
station radios will be placed on an
existing CG-owned tower or a
deployable equivalent. The Coast Guard
Research and Development Center (R&D
Center) will prepare a Pilot
Demonstration Assessment Plan and a
Coast Guard Sector will operate the
equipment for exploratory development
over a six-month period to collect
information on suitability, reliability,
maintenance requirements, and human
systems interoperability. While the
Coast Guard is currently considering
partnering with General Dynamics
Mission Systems, Inc., the agency is
soliciting public comment on the
possible nature of and participation of
other parties in the proposed CRADA. In
addition, the Coast Guard also invites
other potential non-Federal participants
to propose similar CRADAs.
DATES: Comments must be submitted to
the online docket via https://
www.regulations.gov, or reach the
Docket Management Facility, on or
before February 11, 2016.
Synopses of proposals regarding
future CRADAs must reach the Coast
Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT) on or before February 11,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments online at
https://www.regulations.gov in
accordance with Web site instructions.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions on this notice or
wish to submit proposals for future
CRADAs, contact Wayne Buchanan,
Project Official, C4ISR Branch, U.S.
Coast Guard Research and Development
Center, 1 Chelsea Street, New London,
CT 06320, telephone 860–271–2759,
email Wayne.R.Buchanan@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation and Request for
Comments
We request public comments on this
notice. Although we do not plan to
respond to comments in the Federal
Register, we will respond directly to
commenters and may modify our
proposal in light of comments.
Comments should be marked with
docket number USCG–2015–1120 and
should provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation. You
should provide personal contact
information so that we can contact you
if we have questions regarding your
comments; but please note that all
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comments will be posted to the online
docket without change and that any
personal information you include can be
searchable online (see the Federal
Register Privacy Act notice regarding
our public dockets, 73 FR 3316, Jan. 17,
2008). We also accept anonymous
comments.
We encourage you to submit
comments through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. If your material
cannot be submitted using https://
www.regulations.gov, contact the Coast
Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT). Documents mentioned in this
notice, and all public comments, are in
our online docket at https://
www.regulations.gov and can be viewed
by following that Web site’s
instructions. Additionally, if you go to
the online docket and sign up for email
alerts, you will be notified when
comments are posted or a final rule is
published.
Do not submit detailed proposals for
future CRADAs to the Docket
Management Facility. Instead, submit
them directly to the Coast Guard (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Discussion
CRADAs are authorized under 15
U.S.C. 3710(a).1 A CRADA promotes the
transfer of technology to the private
sector for commercial use, as well as
specified research or development
efforts that are consistent with the
mission of the Federal parties to the
CRADA. The Federal party or parties
agree with one or more non-Federal
parties to share research resources, but
the Federal party does not contribute
funding.
CRADAs are not procurement
contracts. Care is taken to ensure that
CRADAs are not used to circumvent the
contracting process. CRADAs have a
specific purpose and should not be
confused with procurement contracts,
grants, and other type of agreements.
Under the proposed CRADA, the R&D
Center will collaborate with one nonFederal participant. Together, the R&D
Center and the non-Federal participant
will collect information/data for
performance, reliability, maintenance
requirements, human systems
integration and other data on LTE
broadband and MUOS communications
technologies. After an initial installation
and training, the Coast Guard plans to
evaluate designated platforms outfitted
1 The statute confers this authority on the head of
each Federal agency. The Secretary of DHS’s
authority is delegated to the Coast Guard and other
DHS organizational elements by DHS Delegation
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG-2009-0973]
Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers for 2016
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of minimum random drug testing rate.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2016 minimum random
drug testing rate at 25 percent of covered crewmembers.
DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1,
2016 through December 31, 2016. Marine employers must submit their 2015
Management Information System (MIS) reports no later than March 15,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Annual MIS reports may be submitted by electronic submission
to the following Internet address: https://homeport.uscg.mil/Drugtestreports.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice,
please contact Mr. Patrick Mannion, Drug and Alcohol Program Manager,
Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis (CG-INV), U.S. Coast
Guard Headquarters, telephone 202-372-1033.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard requires marine employers to
establish random drug testing programs for covered crewmembers on
inspected and uninspected vessels in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230.
Every marine employer is required by 46 CFR 16.500 to collect and
maintain a record of drug testing program data for each calendar year,
and submit this data by 15 March of the following year to the Coast
Guard in an annual MIS report.
Each year, the Coast Guard will publish a notice reporting the
results of random drug testing for the previous calendar year's MIS
data and the minimum annual percentage rate for
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random drug testing for the next calendar year. The purpose of setting
a minimum random drug testing rate is to assist the Coast Guard in
analyzing its current approach for deterring and detecting illegal drug
abuse in the maritime industry.
The Coast Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate
for calendar year 2016 is 25 percent. The Coast Guard may increase this
rate if MIS data indicates a qualitative deficiency of reported data or
the positive random testing rate is greater than 1.0 percent in
accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(f)(2). MIS data for 2015 indicates that
the positive rate is less than one percent industry-wide (0.87
percent).
For 2016, the minimum random drug testing rate will continue at 25
percent of covered employees for the period of January 1, 2016 through
December 31, 2016 in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e).
Dated: January 6, 2016.
Verne B. Gifford, Jr.,
Captain, USCG, Director of Inspections and Compliance.
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