Maritime Administration September 4, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Maritime Administration announces the publication below of the final text of its Voluntary Tanker Agreement (VTA). The Agreement below replaces a prior version that was last published in Volume 48 of the Federal Register at page 38715 (August 25, 1983) and is issued in accordance with the provisions of 44 CFR 332. The proposed text of the VTA was initially published in Volume 72 of the Federal Register at page 41099 (July 26, 2007). Thereafter, a public hearing on the proposed text of the VTA was held on August 29, 2007, at the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. No comments requesting changes to the proposed text were received. Consequently, the final text is unchanged from the text considered at the public hearing. The Department of Justice has issued a finding that the VTA as published below satisfies the statutory criteria of the Defense Production Act [50 U.S.C. App. Section 2158(f)(1)(B)] required for its creation. See Volume 73 of the Federal Register at page 46335 (August 8, 2008).