[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 123 (Monday, June 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 34636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16401]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Revision of MTMC Freight Traffic Rules Publication No. 1A, Item
5, ``Purpose and Application''
AGENCY: Military Traffic Management Command, DOD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC), as the
Department of Defense (DOD) Traffic Manager for surface and surface
intermodal traffic management services (DTR vol. 1, pg. 101-113),
hereby adds language to the text of the existing rule, entitled
``Purpose and Application'', in MFTRP No. 1A, Item 5. The purpose of
the change is to allow DOD tenders for the shipment of ammunition to be
utilized by the United States Coast Guard.
DATES: This change is effective August 1, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Point of Contact: Headquarters, Military Traffic Management
Command, ATTN: MTOP-JF, Room 608, 5611 Columbia Pike, Falls Church, VA
22041-5050, fax: 703-681-9871 attn: Jerome Colton, e-mail:
coltonj@mtmc.army.mil.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information contact Mr.
Jerome Colton at (703) 681-1417.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The effective date for the change will be
August 1, 1999. This change will affect the amounts that ammunition
carriers are reimbursed for ammunition shipments made to, by, for, or
on behalf of the United States Coast Guard. Ammunition carriers wishing
to modify their existing tenders or offer new tenders prior to August
1, 1999, to include the United States Coast Guard may do so.
The current regulation (Item 5, Paragraph 1) reads: ``Purpose. The
purpose of this publication is to articulate the motor transportation
service needs of the Department of Defense (DOD) for the movement of
its freight traffic; to ensure that motor freight carriers providing
that transportation have both the willingness and the capability to
meet those needs; and to provide the standardization necessary for
achieving a fully automated system for routing DOD freight traffic.''
The additional sentence (to be added at the end of the paragraph)
will read: ``Movements of ammunition to, by, for, or on behalf of the
United States Coast Guard (USCG) are also covered by this publication.
References throughout this publication to DOD shall be understood to
include such shipments for the United States Coast Guard as well.''
Thomas M. Ogles,
Chief, Freight Services Division, Joint Traffic Management Office.
[FR Doc. 99-16401 Filed 6-25-99; 8:45 am]
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