
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 248 (Friday, December 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67325-67326]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-28231]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2009-0973]


Random Drug Testing Rate for Covered Crewmembers for 2019

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 2019 minimum random 
drug testing rate at 50 percent of covered crewmembers.

DATES: The minimum random drug testing rate is effective January 1, 
2019 through December 31, 2019.

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, DAPI@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard requires marine employers to 
establish random drug testing programs for covered crewmembers 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 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 promote maritime safety by establishing an effective 
deterrent to drug misuse within the maritime workforce. Intoxicated 
operations poses a serious threat to life, property and the environment 
in the maritime commons. As such, the minimum random drug testing rate 
is intended to deter and detect illegal drug misuse in the maritime 
industry.
    The Coast Guard announces that the minimum random drug testing rate 
for calendar year 2019 is 50 percent. The Coast Guard has increased the 
minimum random drug testing rate for 2019 as a result of MIS data for 
the most recent reporting year indicating that the positive rate is 
greater than one percent. 46 CFR part 16.230(f)(2) requires the 
Commandant to set the minimum random drug testing rate at 50 percent 
when the positivity rate for drug use is greater than 1 percent.
    For 2019, the minimum random drug testing rate will be 50 percent 
of covered employees for the period of January 1,

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2019 through December 31, 2019 in accordance with 46 CFR 16.230(e).

    Dated: December 19, 2018.
Jennifer F. Williams,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Inspections and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2018-28231 Filed 12-27-18; 8:45 am]
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