

[Federal Register: November 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 224)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2007-28962]

 
Notification of the Imposition of Conditions of Entry for Certain 
Vessels Arriving to the United States

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces that effective anti-terrorism 
measures are not in place in certain ports of Cameroon and that it will 
impose conditions of entry on vessels arriving from that country.

DATES: The policy announced in this notice will become effective 
December 5, 2007.

ADDRESSES: This notice will be available for inspection and copying at 
the Docket Management Facility at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Room W12-140 on the Ground Floor of the West Building, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone 
number is 202-366-9329.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call Mr. Michael Brown, International Port Security Evaluation 
Division, Coast Guard, telephone 202-372-1081. If you have questions on 
viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright, 
Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Purpose

    Section 70110 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act provides 
that the Secretary of Homeland Security may impose conditions of entry 
on vessels requesting entry into the United States arriving from ports 
that are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. The Coast 
Guard has been delegated the authority by the Secretary to carry out 
the provisions of this section. The Docket contains previous notices 
imposing or removing conditions of entry on vessels arriving from 
certain countries and those conditions of entry and the countries they 
pertain to remain in effect unless modified by this notice.
    The Coast Guard has determined that ports, with certain exceptions, 
in Cameroon are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures. 
Accordingly, effective December 5, 2007. the Coast Guard will impose 
the following conditions of entry on vessels that visited ports in 
Cameroon with the exception of the Ebome Marine Terminal, the Quai 
GETMA (LAMNALCO Base) facility, and the Soci[eacute]t[eacute] Nationale 
de Raffinage (SONARA) terminal during their last five port calls. 
Vessels must:
     Implement measures per the ship's security plan equivalent 
to Security Level 2;
     Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded and 
that the guards have total visibility of the exterior (both landside 
and waterside) of the vessel while the vessel is in ports in the above 
country. Guards may be provided by the ship's crew, however additional 
crewmembers should be placed on the ship if necessary to ensure that 
limits on maximum hours of work are not exceeded and/or minimum hours 
of rest are met, or provided by outside security forces approved by the 
ship's master and Company Security Officer;
     Attempt to execute a Declaration of Security;
     Log all security actions in the ship's log;

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     Report actions taken to the cognizant U.S. Coast Guard 
Captain of the Port prior to arrival into U.S. waters; and
     Ensure that each access point to the ship is guarded by 
armed, private security guards and that they have total visibility of 
the exterior (both landside and waterside) of the vessel while in U.S. 
ports. The number and position of the guards has to be acceptable to 
the cognizant Coast Guard Sector Commander.
    With this notice, the current list of countries not maintaining 
effective anti-terrorism measures is as follows: Cameroon, Equatorial 
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Mauritania.

    Dated: October 25, 2007.
Rear Admiral David Pekoske, USCG,
Assistant Commandant for Operations.
[FR Doc. E7-22786 Filed 11-20-07; 8:45 am]

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