1625-AB46 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1625 U.S. Coast Guard USCG 1600 Department of Homeland Security DHS Lifesaving Equipment, Production Testing, and Harmonization With International Standards

The Coast Guard finalized 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 final rule harmonizes the Coast Guard's design, construction, and performance standards for this lifesaving equipment with international standards. In addition, the final 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 finalized 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 adopted 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.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Completed Actions No No 46 CFR 160 46 CFR 108 46 CFR 117 46 CFR 133 46 CFR 164 46 CFR 180 46 CFR 199 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 No NPRM 08/31/2010 75 FR 53458 NPRM Comment Period End 11/29/2010 Interim Final Rule 10/11/2011 76 FR 62962 SNPRM 10/11/2011 76 FR 62714 SNPRM Comment Period End 11/25/2011 76 FR 62714 Interim Final Rule Effective 10/10/2011 76 FR 62962 Interim Final Rule 02/21/2012 77 FR 9859 Interim Final Rule Effective 03/22/2012 Second SNPRM 11/26/2012 77 FR 70390 Second SNPRM Comment Period End 01/25/2013 Final Rule 07/30/2014 79 FR 44129 Final Rule Effective 08/29/2014 Docket ID USCG-2010-0048 [Formerly USCG-2007-27669]. No Federal No No http://www.regulations.gov http://www.regulations.gov No No 1625-AB15 Previously reported as George Grills Project Manager 1625 U.S. Coast Guard USCG 202 372-1385 george.g.grills@uscg.mil Commandant (CG-ENG-4), 2703 Martin Luther King Jr Ave, SE., STOP 7509, Washington DC 20593-7509