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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 164 / Friday, August 27, 2021 / Proposed Rules
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Reduction in Merchant Mariner Medical Certificate Applications From Baseline to Proposed Rule As reflected in sum of column ft of table 5, we project an aggregate reduction in medical certificate applications of 10,766 over a 10 years horizon following the implementation of this rule. Under the proposed regulation, on average, FCPs would not have to submit 1,794 medical certificate applications in a given year.
Medical Certificate Applications Submitted by MailOpportunity Cost of Time Table 6 illustrates the analysis of cost savings to industry as discussed in the following sections. We first determine the number of FCPs who would submit a medical certificate application via mail, previously estimated by the NMC
at 15% of the affected population. The number of FCPs who no longer have to submit a medical application on a given year is reflected on column f t of table 5. Therefore, column a t of table 6 is the product of reduced FCPs 15%. We then estimated the reduction in hours under the proposed rule.
We first calculated the reduction in time-burden in a given year from FCPs who no longer have to submit a medical certificate application. The reduction in time-burden is calculated as the product of the average time per medical certificate application submitted by mail for evaluation, and the number of FCPs who no longer have to submit a medical certificate application in a given year.
For the current collection of information approval for CG719 MMC application forms, the approval estimates the total time required to fill out and submit the medical certificate application CG
719K by mailing to be 18 minutes.
Subject matter experts holding MMCs with experience submitting a medical certificate application estimate that, on average, 13 minutes is required to fill out the application and the remaining 5
minutes is required to mail the application. Based on this data, the Coast Guard estimates the time required to submit an application by mailing at 5 minutes, or 0.083 hours 5 60.
Column f t in table 6 is the product of a t and b. In order to calculate the government cost savings from time saved by NMC employees having fewer medical certificate application to process, we used an estimated loaded hourly wage rate of $94.03.3 We derived 3A

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the estimated wage by using the Office of Personnel Managements 2020 Salary Table for the locality adjusted general service GS pay scale for the Washington, DC metropolitan area. We estimated that the average hourly wage rate for a GS13 employee is $56.57.4 To account for employee benefits, we used a load factor of 1.66, which we calculated from the Congressional Budget Office report, Comparing the Compensation of Federal and PrivateSector Employees, 2011 to 2015, 5
estimated as the ratio of a typical GS
13 total compensation, $74.80, found in table 4, divided by the typical hourly wage of a GS13 employee, $45.00, found in table 2; hence, $74.80 $45.00
= 1.66. An employee at the GS13 pay grade is assumed to be equivalent to a person who holds a masters degree.
Therefore, we estimated the loaded wage rate of a GS13 employee as the product of the wage rate and the load factor, $56.57 1.66 = $94.03.
We recognize that many mariners holding FCP endorsements are compensated at higher wage rates than what is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS; however, we used the BLS Occupational Series due to the lack of official records for FCP
wages and salaries. The Coast Guard requests input from industry on FCP
wages and whether our wage rate should be revised.
In order to calculate the cost of time avoided by FCPs submitting fewer applications under the proposed rule, we used the loaded hourly wage rate per FCP, estimated at $64.90. We obtained the hourly wage rate of a mariner from the BLS, using Occupational Series 53
5021, Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels May 2020, estimated at $43.14.6 To determine the load factor per FCP, we divided the BLS total compensation for the transportation and material moving series,7 $32.27, by the wages and salaries for the same series, which is $21.45. We estimated the load factor as 1.50, $32.27 $21.45 = 1.50.
Therefore, we calculated the loaded hourly wage rate by multiplying the hourly wage rate by the loaded factor, $43.14 1.50 = $64.90.
After determining the total reduction in time for FCPs not submitting medical 4 https www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/payleave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2020/GS_
h.pdf.
5 https www.cbo.gov/system/files/115thcongress-2017-2018/reports/52637federalprivatepay.pdf.
6 https www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/
oes535021.htm see Mean Hourly Wage value, National estimates for this occupation box.
7 https www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/
ecec_03192020.pdf. Found in Table 2.

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certificates in a given year, we estimated the aggregate cost of the time for all FCPs to submit their medical certificates applications to the Coast Guard. We estimated this amount by multiplying the loaded hourly wage-rate per each endorsed FCP, $64.90, by the total annual reduction in time burden.
Therefore, the cost-time burden, column g t of table 6 is the product of column d and column f t.
Shipping Costs Mariners may submit medical certificate applications either directly to the NMC or to a REC. Whether submitting to the NMC or a REC, applications can be submitted by email, fax, or mail. Additionally, if an application is submitted to a REC, this can be done in person.
Using data from the NMC on the submission of medical certificate applications, we estimate that approximately 39 percent of medical certificate applications are submitted directly to the NMC. Of these applications, 89 percent are submitted by email, 6 percent are submitted by fax, and 5 percent are submitted by mail.
The remaining 61 percent of medical certificate applications are submitted directly to RECs, where 52 percent of the applications are submitted by email, 1 percent are submitted by fax, 22
percent are submitted by mail, and 25
percent are submitted in person.8
Therefore, of the total medical certificate applications submitted to the Coast Guard to both the NMC and RECs, approximately 66 percent are submitted via email, 3 percent are submitted via fax, 15 percent are submitted via mail, and 15 percent are submitted in person.9
We estimated the expected cost of mailing applications through the U.S.
Postal Service USPS in any given year as the product of the total number of medical certificate applications that would be submitted under this proposed rule, the cost of mailing a letter to the Coast Guard through the USPS using a first-class letter postage stamp, 55 cents, and the percentage of endorsed FCPs expected to submit their medical certificate applications through the mail, approximately 15.4 percent.
Thus, column h t of table 6 = a t
c. Finally, the undiscounted industry cost savings, column i t as the sum of the cost-time burden, column g t, and the USPS cost, column h t.
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8 Total may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.
9 Total may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.

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