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RIN: 1625-AB19

Publication ID: Fall 2008

Title: Crewmember Identification Documents (USCG-2007-28648)
Abstract: This rulemaking would require each crewmember on a foreign commercial vessel en route to a U.S. port or place of destination or at a U.S. port or place, or on a U.S. commercial vessel coming from a foreign port or place of departure to a U.S. port or place of destination, to carry and present upon demand an acceptable identification when in U.S. navigable waters. The vessel operator would also be required to ensure that crewmembers comply with this requirement. We expect the following five documents would be considered acceptable identification for crewmembers: a passport; a U.S. Permanent Resident Card; a U.S. Merchant Mariner's Document (MMD); a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC); and a Seafarer's Identification Document (SID) meeting all the requirements of International Labour Organization Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (ILO 185). We expect that most crewmembers already have one or more of these five documents. Should the proposed U.S. merchant mariner credential (MMC) rule (1625-AB02) become effective before a crewmember identification documents final rule is issued, we expect that the MMC would also be considered an acceptable identification document.
Agency: Department of Homeland Security(DHS)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 33 CFR 160
Legal Authority: 33 USC 1223 33 USC 1231 46 USC 70111

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Final	Statutory		10/13/2007

Overall Description of Deadline: Under 46 USC 70111, the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, shall require crewmembers on vessels calling at United States ports to carry and present on demand any identification that the Secretary decides is necessary.

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	05/14/2008	73 FR 27778
NPRM Comment Period End	07/14/2008
Final Rule	01/00/2009

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined	Government Levels Affected: None
Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Information URL: www.regulations.gov	Public Comment URL: www.regulations.gov
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Related RINs: Related to 1625-AA16, Related to 1625-AA99, Related to 1625-AB02
Agency Contact: LCDR Jonathan H. Maiorine Program Manager (CG-5442) Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001 Phone:202 372-1133 Fax:202 372-1906 Email: jonathan.h.maiorine@uscg.mil CDR Kelly Post Project Manager, (CG-5221) Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard 2100 Second Street SW., Room 1210, Washington, DC 20593 Phone:202 372-1405 Email: kelly.m.post@uscg.mil