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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 128 / Thursday, July 8, 2021 / Notices
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well-paying jobs and economic growth, especially through innovation, commercialization, and deployment of clean energy technologies and infrastructure. The Order states that successfully meeting these challenges will require the Federal Government to pursue a coordinated approach from planning to implementation, coupled with substantive engagement by stakeholders, including State, local, and Tribal governments.
This request for information is also consistent with Executive Order 13563, Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,3 which calls for a regulatory system that is based on the best available science and protects public health, welfare, safety, and our environment while promoting economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, and job creation. The Executive Order directs agencies to consider how best to promote retrospective analysis of rules that may be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome, and to modify, streamline, expand, or repeal them in accordance with what has been learned. Executive Order 13563 is affirmed in the Presidents Memorandum of January 20, 2021, Modernizing Regulatory Review. The Coast Guard seeks this input recognizing the importance of reevaluating programs to reduce unnecessary barriers to effectiveness, adapt to new technologies, and ensure mission resiliency when combating and responding to climate change.
III. Coast Guard Missions and Authorities The Coast Guard seeks input on how best to use the Coast Guards statutory authorities to implement these orders and to reduce the risks associated with climate change. Many of the Coast Guards missions are identified in brief at 6 U.S.C. 468. All of these missions contribute to the facilitation of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible commerce through our stewardship of the marine transportation system. These missions include marine safety; search and rescue; aids to navigation; living marine resources fisheries law enforcement; marine environmental protection; ice operations; ports, waterways and coastal security; drug interdiction; migrant interdiction;
defense readiness; and other law enforcement.
These authorities are connected, of course, with the risks associated with climate change. The Coast Guard also has important responsibilities in acquiring scientific information, 3 76

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including information involving the effects of climate change, and in issuing regulations. While the Coast Guard holds a wide range of regulatory and operational authorities to fulfill these missions, the Coast Guard frequently shares responsibility for these missions with other agencies.4 In some cases the Coast Guard has the authority to revise regulations, guidelines, policies, or processes to address particular problems in particular ways; in other cases the Coast Guard may be unable to act without the assistance of another agency, or may be unable to act at all.
Commenters are therefore encouraged to focus comments on matters within the Coast Guards authorities, to the extent known to the commenter.
Location of Coast Guard Regulations Coast Guard regulations fall within three general categories in the Code of Federal Regulations CFRnavigation and navigable waters, shipping, and transportation. Below are the three corresponding titles in the CFR and the parts in those titles where you will find our regulations:
33 CFR Chapter I parts 1 through 199, 46 CFR Chapters I parts 1 through 199 and III parts 400 through 499, and 49 CFR Chapter IV parts 400
through 499.
You can view these regulations on https www.govinfo.gov/ or https
www.ecfr.gov.
In the CFR, you will find bracketed references to rules published in the Federal Register for example, xx FR
xxxx, date. The Federal Register publications differ from the CFR in that that, through the preamble language, we fully explain our reasoning for establishing the regulations in that CFR
part or section and our estimates of the costs and benefits of those regulations.
Rules published since at least 1990 will be available in the Federal Register library on https www.govinfo.gov/.
Our rulemaking documents published in the Federal Register also include a number that identifies our online docket. On https www.regulations.gov, using that docket number, you should be able to find supporting and related material we provided for that rule, including a cost-benefit analysis. In our dockets, you will also find notices of proposed rulemaking and submissions from interested persons who commented on our initial proposal for the regulations that appear in the final 4 A general list of Coast Guard authorities can be found online at https www.uscg.mil/readings/
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rule. The preamble of the final rule contains our responses to those comments.
Location of Coast Guard Guidance Documents You can find Coast Guard guidance documents online via https
www.uscg.mil/guidance. Guidance documents include Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circulars NVICs, policy letters, bulletins, handbooks, and other items meant to inform the public.
On this site, guidance documents are categorized by the Coast Guard office that issued and maintains the documents.
IV. Request for Information The Coast Guard seeks public comments and suggestions on actions we can take, within our statutory authority, to combat and respond to climate change. As noted above, our mission areas encompass maritime operations, safety, security, environmental stewardship, and facilitation of the maritime commerce that contributes so crucially to a vibrant U.S. economy.
The actions we might take could include revising current regulations, guidelines, policies, or processes that unjustifiably impede or fail to support the development and use of technologies and best practices to combat or respond to climate change in the marine transportation system. We might also orient our efforts to acquire and disseminate information about the effects of climate change in particular ways for example, through use of data.gov.
When considering your comments and suggestions, we ask that you keep in mind our missions to ensure a safe, secure, and resilient marine transportation system that facilitates commerce and secures national security interests. Commenters should consider the below principles as they answer and respond to the questions in this notice.
Commenters should identify, with specificity, the program, regulation, or policy at issue, providing the Code of Federal Regulation CFR citation where appropriate.
Commentators should identify, with specificity, small or large reforms that might be justified in light of the risks posed by climate change, whether those reforms involve preparedness, mitigation, adaptation, resilience, or other steps to reduce suffering.
Commenters should provide, in as much detail as possible, an explanation why a program, regulation, or policy should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, as well as
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