[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 5, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 53970-53971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25865]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 20
46 CFR Part 5
[USCG-1998-3472]
RIN 2115-AF59
Rules of Practice, Procedure, and Evidence for Administrative
Proceedings of the Coast Guard
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.
ACTION: Reopening of comment period on interim rule.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is reopening the period for public comment on
its interim rule, Rules of Practice, Procedure, and Evidence for
Administrative Proceedings of the Coast Guard. Because of several
requests for extension, the Coast Guard is reopening the period for 180
days.
DATES: Comments must reach the Coast Guard on or before April 3, 2000.
ADDRESSES: Please submit your comments and related material by any one
of the following methods (but by only one, to avoid multiple listings
in the public docket):
(1) By mail to the Docket Management Facility, [USCG-1998-3472],
U.S. Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
(2) By delivery to room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400
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Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone number is 202-
366-9329.
(3) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
(4) Electronically through the Web Site for the Docket Management
System at http://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on the substance of the
rulemaking, call George J. Jordan, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the
Chief Administrative Law Judge, telephone 202-267-0006. For questions
on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms. Dorothy
Walker, Chief of Dockets, Department of Transportation, telephone 202-
366-9329.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
The interim rule, published on May 24, 1999 [64 FR 28054],
encouraged interested persons to participate in this rulemaking by
submitting written data, views, or arguments by July 23, 1999. This
request does the same, except that it invites their submitting them by
April 3, 2000.
Persons submitting comments should include their names and
addresses, identify this docket [USCG-1998-3472] and the specific
section of the interim rule to which each comment applies, and give the
reason for each comment. Please submit one copy of each comment and
attachment in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches,
suitable for copying and electronic filing, to the DOT Docket
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES. If you want
acknowledgment of receipt of your comment, enclose a stamped, self-
addressed postcard or envelope.
The Coast Guard will consider all comments received during the
comment period. It may change this interim rule in view of them.
The Coast Guard plans no public meeting. Persons may request one by
writing to the Docket Management Facility at the address under
ADDRESSES. The request must identify this docket [USCG-1998-3472] and
should include the reasons why an opportunity for oral presentations
would be helpful to this rulemaking. If such an opportunity would help
the rulemaking, the Coast Guard will hold a public meeting at a time
and place announced by a later notice in the Federal Register.
Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard seeks to improve its adjudicative process.
Improvement will also affect certain actions involving merchant
mariners. First, the interim rule consolidates all Coast Guard
adjudicative procedures to include the following: the suspension and
revocation (S&R) of merchant mariners' licenses, certificates of
registry, and documents and the procedures involving class II civil
penalties. Second, the interim rule eliminates unnecessary procedures
from S&R proceedings. The Coast Guard expects the interim rule to
facilitate the efficient use of administrative resources relating to
adjudication by the Coast Guard. It will save time, effort, and money
for all parties who are or may become involved in actions of the Coast
Guard.
Dated: September 27, 1999.
Robert S. Horowitz,
Acting Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 99-25865 Filed 10-4-99; 8:45 am]
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