
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 22 (Friday, February 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 9215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-02337]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2009-0973]


Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers for 2017

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of minimum random drug testing rate.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has set the calendar year 2017 minimum random 
drug testing rate at 25 percent of covered crewmembers.

DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1, 
2017 through December 31, 2017. Marine employers must submit their 2016 
Management Information System (MIS) reports no later than March 15, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: Annual MIS reports may be submitted by electronic submission 
to the following Internet address: http://homeport.uscg.mil/Drugtestreports.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this notice, 
please contact Mr. Patrick Mannion, Drug and Alcohol Prevention and 
Investigation Program Manager, Office of Investigations and Casualty 
Analysis (CG-INV), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, telephone 202-372-
1033.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard requires marine employers to 
establish random drug testing programs for covered crewmembers on 
inspected and uninspected vessels in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230. 
Every marine employer is required by 46 CFR 16.500 to collect and 
maintain a record of drug testing program data for each calendar year, 
and submit this data by 15 March of the following year to the Coast 
Guard in an annual MIS report.
    Each year, the Coast Guard will publish a notice reporting the 
results of random drug testing for the previous calendar year's MIS 
data and the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug testing for 
the next calendar year. The purpose of setting a minimum random drug 
testing rate is to assist the Coast Guard in analyzing its current 
approach for deterring and detecting illegal drug abuse in the maritime 
industry.
    The Coast Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate 
for calendar year 2017 is 25 percent. The Coast Guard may increase this 
rate if MIS data indicates a qualitative deficiency of reported data or 
the positive random testing rate is greater than 1.0 percent in 
accordance with 46 CFR part 16.230(f)(2). MIS data for 2016 indicates 
that the positive rate is less than one percent.
    For 2017, the minimum random drug testing rate will continue at 25 
percent of covered employees for the period of January 1, 2017 through 
December 31, 2017 in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e).

    Dated: January 12, 2017.
Verne B. Gifford, Jr.,
Captain, USCG, Director of Inspections and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2017-02337 Filed 2-2-17; 8:45 am]
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