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RIN: 0648-BG34

Publication ID: Fall 2018

Title: Vessel Monitoring Systems; Requirements for Enhanced Mobile Transceiver Unit and Mobile Communication Service Type Approval
Abstract: This action proposes to update the regulations that require enhanced mobile transceiver unit type-approval holders to renew their type-approvals. All vessels participating in a NOAA Vessel Monitoring System program are required to acquire a NMFS-approved enhanced mobile transceiver unit to comply with the Vessel Monitoring System requirements. The enhanced mobile transceiver units are type-approved for use in the program by the NMFS Office of Law Enforcement pursuant to the specifications in regulations. Under the existing regulations, a type-approval is valid for three years and a type-approval holder must seek renewal of the type-approval prior to the end of the type-approval period. This proposed amendment to current regulations eliminates the type-approval renewal requirement.
Agency: Department of Commerce(DOC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
EO 13771 Designation: Deregulatory
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 600
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	12/05/2017	82 FR 57419
NPRM Comment Period End	01/04/2018
NPRM Comment Period Reopened	02/27/2018	83 FR 8416
Second NPRM Comment Period End	03/29/2018
Final Action	10/00/2018

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: Businesses	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Alan Risenhoover Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13362, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone:301 713-2334 Fax:301 713-0596 Email: alan.risenhoover@noaa.gov