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DHS/USCG | RIN: 1625-AB46 | Publication ID: Spring 2013 |
Title: Lifesaving Equipment, Production Testing, and Harmonization With International Standards | |
Abstract: The Coast Guard amended its regulations for certain lifesaving equipment, including launching appliances (winches and davits), release mechanisms, survival craft (lifeboats, inflatable life rafts, and inflatable buoyant apparatuses), rescue boats, and automatic disengaging devices. The current rule harmonizes the Coast Guard's design, construction, and performance standards for this lifesaving equipment with international standards. In addition, the rule provides for the use of qualified independent laboratories, instead of Coast Guard inspectors, during the approval process and for production inspections of certain types of lifesaving equipment. The Coast Guard additionally updated the lifesaving equipment regulations for inflatable life rafts and inflatable buoyant apparatuses to harmonize Coast Guard regulations with recently adopted international standards affecting assumed occupant weight. The Coast Guard is adopting further amendments to the lifesaving equipment regulations for release mechanisms to harmonize Coast Guard regulations with international standards affecting design, construction, and performance requirements for release mechanisms. | |
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: 46 CFR 160 | |
Legal Authority: 46 USC 2103 and 2104 46 USC 3301 46 USC 3305 and 3306 46 USC 3703 46 USC 4102 46 USC 4302 46 USC 4502 DHS Delegation 0170.1, paragraph 92 |
Legal Deadline:
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Additional Information: The docket number for this rulemaking is USCG-2010-0048 [Formerly USCG-2007-27669]. The docket can be found at www.regulations.gov. | |
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No | Government Levels Affected: Federal |
Federalism: No | |
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No | |
RIN Information URL: http://www.regulations.gov | Public Comment URL: http://www.regulations.gov |
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No | |
Related RINs: Previously reported as 1625-AB15 | |
Agency Contact: Jacqueline M. Yurkovich Project Manager Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard Office of Design and Engineering Standards (CG-ENG-4), 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, STOP 7509, Washington, DC 20593-7509 Phone:202 372-1389 Email: jacqueline.m.yurkovich@uscg.mil |