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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 167 / Wednesday, September 1, 2021 / Proposed Rules
Both courses would occur over 2
days. In the 16-hour course suggested by this alternative, the mariner would likely experience a cost savings from reduced tuition because there would be fewer equipment needs used for the training; however, we do not have a way to estimate the size of this reduction in fees. This reduction in fees would almost certainly be less than the reduction in fees for a 12-hour course instead of a 16-hour course, because the
instructors would spend less time in class. Additionally, a 16-hour course would not result in the cost savings from the 4-hour reduced training duration, estimated at $92,381 annually.
As a result, the Coast Guard rejected this alternative because it did not lead to the highest cost savings.
Net Cost Savings
Guard, and cost savings to mariners who would have the option to complete a modified basic firefighting course. Table 10 presents the net cost savings to industry and the Government over a 10year period of analysis, in 2019 dollars.
Net cost savings are expressed as negative numbers in the first year due to the absence of cost savings.

As documented above, there would be costs to course providers and the Coast
TABLE 10DISCOUNTED NET COST SAVINGS OVER A 10-YEAR PERIOD OF ANALYSIS IN 2020 DOLLARS AT 7% AND 3%
Discounted cost savings
Undiscounted cost savings
Year
7%

3%

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

$24,432
142,569
142,569
142,569
142,569
127,496
142,569
142,569
142,569
142,569

$22,834
124,525
116,379
108,765
101,650
84,956
88,785
82,976
77,548
72,475

$23,721
134,385
130,471
126,671
122,981
106,776
115,922
112,545
109,267
106,085

Total

1,243,616

835,225

1,041,382

Annualized

118,917

122,082

B. Small Entities Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601612, we have considered whether this proposed rule would have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
The term small entities comprises small businesses, not-for-profit organizations that are independently owned and operated and are not dominant in their fields, and governmental jurisdictions with populations of less than 50,000 people.
As described in section VI. A. of this preamble, Regulatory Planning and Review, there would be two affected populations: 1 Course providers who
develop and submit a course to the Coast Guard for approval, and 2
applicants for mate pilot of towing vessels or master of towing vessels limited operating on inland waters or Western Rivers. Applicants are individuals and not entities; as such, the second affected population does not contain any small entities.
Of the 91 course providers approved to offer a basic firefighting course, the Coast Guard identified 35 course providers who might submit requests for course approval to teach a modified firefighting course.39 Of these 35
providers:
13 are public agencies, none of which are classified as small entities;

4 are non-profit organizations, and all 4 are classified as small entities;
18 are private companies. Of these, 4 are not classified as small businesses, 8 are classified as small businesses, and 6 could not be classified because information could not be found on those 6 businesses. We classify those 6
businesses, where information could not be found, as small entities.
In total, we classified 18 of 35 entities as small entities. Table 11 lists the North American Industry Classification System NAICS codes and size standards used to determine whether or not entities are small and the numbers of small entities.

TABLE 11SIZE STANDARDS AND THE AFFECTED ENTITIES
NAICS U.S. industry title
NAICS code
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39 In the Affected Population section, we estimated that 23 providers would most likely be impacted by this rule based on their location and other factors. While we estimated that 23 providers would be most likely impacted, we identified 35
providers that might offer a modified basic firefighting course. For the purposes of the
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governments of cities, counties, towns, townships, villages, school districts, or special districts with a population of less than 50,000..

regulatory flexibility analysis, and because we did not know with certainty which of the 35 course providers would be impacted, we reviewed the potential costs to any of 35 entities to see if this rule would be likely to have a substantial impact on small entities. These 35 course providers are listed in in a document which is available in the docket
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where indicated under the ADDRESSES portion of the preamble See Table A1: Basic Firefighting Course Providers, Course Cost, and Likelihood to Offer a Modified Basic Firefighting Course.

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