§ 401.220 - Registration of pilots.

§ 401.220 Registration of pilots.

Cross Reference

Link to an amendment published at 89 FR 76349, Sept. 17, 2024.

Pilots.

(a) The Director shall must determine the number of pilots Pilots required to be registered in order to assure adequate and efficient pilotage service in the United States waters of the Great Lakes and to provide for equitable participation of United States Registered Pilots with Canadian Registered Pilots in the rendering of pilotage services. The Director determines the number of pilots Pilots needed as follows:

(1) The Director determines the base number of pilots Pilots needed by dividing each area's peak pilotage demand data by its pilot work cycle. The pilot Pilot work cycle standard includes any time that the Director finds to be a necessary and reasonable component of ensuring that a pilotage assignment is carried out safely, efficiently, and reliably for each area. These components may include, but are not limited to—

(i) Amount of time a pilot Pilot provides pilotage service or is available to a vessel's master Master to provide pilotage service;

(ii) Pilot travel time, measured from the pilotPilot's base, to and from an assignment's starting and ending points;

(iii) Assignment delays and detentions;

(iv) Administrative time for a pilot Pilot who serves as a pilotage pilot association's president;

(v) Rest between assignments, as required by § 401.451;

(vi) Ten days' recuperative rest per month from April 15 through November 15 each year, provided that lesser rest allowances are approved by the Director at the pilotage pilot association's request, if necessary to provide pilotage without interruption through that period; and

(vii) Pilotage-related training.

(2) Pilotage demand and the base seasonal work standard are based on available and reliable data, as so deemed by the Director, for a multi-year base period. The multi-year period is the 10 most recent full shipping seasonspast years, and the data source is a system approved under 46 CFR 403.300. Where such data are not available or reliable, the Director also may use data, from additional past full shipping seasons years or other sources, that the Director determines to be available and reliable.

(3) The number of pilots Pilots needed in each district is calculated by totaling the area results by district and rounding them up to a the nearest whole integer. For supportable circumstances, the Director may make reasonable and necessary adjustments to the rounded result to provide for changes that the Director anticipates will affect the need for pilots Pilots in the district over the period for which base rates are being established.

(b) Registration of pilots shall Pilots must be made from among those Applicant Apprentice Pilots who have:

(1) completed Completed the minimum number of round trips prescribed by the Commandant Director over the waters for which application is made on oceangoing vessels, in company with a United States Registered Pilot , within 1 year of date of application,

(2) completed a

or Temporary Registered Pilot, and in accordance with the Apprentice Pilot's approved individual training plan;

(2) Completed the approved course of instruction for Applicant Apprentice Pilots prescribed by the association authorized to establish the pilotage pool, ; and

(3) After completing the requirements in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of this section, satisfactorily completed a written examination prescribed by the CommandantDirector, evidencing his their knowledge and understanding of the Great Lakes Pilotage Act of 1960, Great Lakes Pilotage Regulations, Rules and Orders; the Memorandum of ArrangementsUnderstanding, Great Lakes Pilotage, between the United States and Canada; and other related matters including the working rules and operating procedures of his the district, given at such time and place as the Commandant Director may designate within the pilotage district of the Applicant Apprentice Pilot.

(c) The Pilot Association pilot association authorized to establish a pilotage pool in which an Applicant Apprentice Pilot has qualified for registration under paragraph (b) of this section shall must submit to the Director, in writing, its recommendations together with its reasons for or against the registration of the ApplicantApprentice Pilot.

(d) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this section, a pilot an Apprentice Pilot found to be qualified under this subpart shall may be considered fully registered and issued a Certificate of Registration, valid for a term of five (5) years or until the expiration of his master's, mate's or pilot's endorsement issued under the authority of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes their Master, Mate, or Pilot endorsement, or until the pilot Pilot reaches age 70, whichever occurs first.

(e) The Director may, when necessary to assure adequate and efficient pilotage service, issue a temporary certificate of registration for a period of less than 1 year to any person found qualified under this subpart regardless of age.

[29 FR 10465, July 28, 1964]

Editorial Note

Editorial Note:

For Federal Register citations affecting § 401.220, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.govinfo.gov.