

[Federal Register: October 18, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 201)]
[Notices]               
[Page 59101-59102]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[USCG-2007-0008]

 
Collection of Information Under Review by Office of Management 
and Budget: OMB Control Number: 1625-0003

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Sixty-day notice requesting comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
U.S. Coast Guard intends to submit an Information Collection Request 
(ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requesting a 
revision of their approval for the following collection of information: 
1625-0003, Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Form (CG-3865). Before 
submitting this ICR to OMB, the Coast Guard is inviting comments as 
described below.

DATES: Comments must reach the Coast Guard on or before December 17, 
2007.

ADDRESSES: To make sure your comments and related material do not enter 
the docket [USCG-2007-0008] more than once, please submit them by only 
one of the following means:
    (1) Online: http://www.regulations.gov.

    (2) Mail or Hand deliver to: Docket Management Facility (M-30), 
U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room 
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Hand 
deliver between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays. The telephone number is 202-366-9329.
    (3) Fax to: Docket Management Facility: 202-493-2251.
    The Docket Management Facility maintains the public docket for this 
notice. Comments and material received from the public, as well as 
documents mentioned in this notice as being available in the docket, 
will become part of this docket and will be available for inspection or 
copying at room W12-140 on the West Building Ground Floor, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays. You may also find this docket 
on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.

    A copy of the complete ICR is available through this docket on the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. Additionally, copies are 

available from Commandant (CG-611), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 
(Attn: Mr. Arthur Requina), 2100 2nd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-
0001. The telephone number is 202-475-3523.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Arthur Requina, Office of 
Information Management, telephone 202-475-3523, or fax 202-475-3929, 
for questions on these documents. Contact Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program 
Manager, Docket Operations, 202-366-9826, for questions on the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Public Participation and Request for Comments

    We encourage you to respond to this request by submitting comments 
and related materials. We will post all comments received, without 
change, to http://www.regulations.gov. They will include any personal 

information you provide. We have an agreement with DOT to use their 
Docket Management Facility. Please see the paragraph on DOT's ``Privacy 
Act Policy'' below.
    Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include the 
docket number for this request [USCG-2007-0008], indicate the specific 
section of the document to which each comment applies, providing a 
reason for each comment. We recommend you include your name, mailing 
address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in the body 
of your document to ensure that you can be identified as the submitter. 
This also allows us to contact you in the event further information is 
needed or if there are questions. For example, if we cannot read your 
submission. You may submit your comments and material by electronic 
means, mail, fax, or delivery to the Docket Management Facility at the 
address under ADDRESSES; but please submit them by only one means. If 
you submit them by mail or delivery, submit them in an unbound format, 
no larger than 8-\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and 
electronic filing. If you submit them by mail and would like to know 
that they reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-
addressed postcard or envelope. We will consider all comments and 
material received during the comment period. We may change the 
documents supporting this collection of information or even the 
underlying requirements in view of them.
    Viewing comments and documents: Go to http://www.regulations.gov to 

view documents mentioned in this notice as being available in the 
docket. Click on ``Search for Dockets,'' and enter the docket number 
for this notice (USCG-2007-0008) in the Docket ID box, and click enter. 
You may also visit the Docket Management Facility in room W12-140 on 
the West Building Ground Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.
    Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments 
received in dockets by the name of the individual submitting the 
comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an 
association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the Privacy 
Act Statement of DOT in the Federal Register published on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov.


Information Collection Request

    1. Title: Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Form (CG-3865).
    OMB Control Number: 1625-0003.
    Summary: Title 46 U.S.C. 6102(b) requires the Secretary to collect, 
analyze and publish reports, information, and statistics on marine 
casualties. The Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Form (CG-3865) is 
the data collection instrument that enables the Coast Guard to comply 
with this mandate.
    Need: Title 46 U.S.C. 6102(a) requires a uniform marine casualty 
reporting system with regulations prescribing casualties to be 
reported, and the manner thereof. The statute requires a State to 
compile and submit to the Secretary (delegated to the Coast Guard) 
reports, information, and statistics on casualties reported. 
Implementing regulations are contained in 33 CFR part 173--Vessel 
Numbering and Casualty and Accident Reporting; subpart C--Casualty and 
Accident Reporting, and 33 CFR part 174--State Numbering and Casualty 
Reporting Systems; subpart C--Casualty Reporting System Requirements; 
and subpart D--State reports.
    States are required to forward copies of the reports or 
electronically transmit

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accident report data to the Coast Guard within 30 days of receipt of 
the report as prescribed in 33 CFR 174.121. The accident report data 
and statistical information obtained from the reports submitted by the 
State reporting authorities are used by the Coast Guard in the 
compilation of national recreational boating accident statistics.
    Respondents: Operators of vessels or vessel equipment involved in 
occurrences where--
     A person dies or is injured and requires medical treatment 
beyond first aid,
     The vessel incurs damage or other property incurs damages 
of $2,000 or more, or
     A person disappears from the vessel under circumstances 
indicating death or injury, and reporting authorities. See Sec. Sec.  
173.57 and 173.59.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Burden Estimate: The estimated burden remains 2,500 hours a year.

    Dated: October 11, 2007.
D.T. Glenn,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Command, 
Control, Communications, Computers and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-20607 Filed 10-17-07; 8:45 am]

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