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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 152 / Wednesday, August 11, 2021 / Rules and Regulations procedures must be available for viewing in the marine transfer area. This change in text will ensure the section does not conflict with the printed copy requirement for vessel transfer procedures in 155.740.
IV. Discussion of the Final Rule This final rule amends the following sections in title 33 of the CFR: 127.019, 127.309, 127.1309, 154.300, 154.320, 154.325, and 156.120. A section-bysection explanation of the new requirements follows.
A. Part 127Waterfront Facilities Handling Liquefied Natural Gas and Liquefied Hazardous Gas
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Section 127.019 Operations Manual and Emergency Manual: Procedures for examination This section will allow owners and operators of facilities that transfer LNG
and LHG, in bulk, to or from a vessel to submit one print or electronic copy of their Operations Manual and Emergency Manual to the COTP for examination.
Additionally, to codify current practices, manuals submitted after the effective date of the final rule must include a date, revision date, or other revision-specific identifying information. All manuals currently contain unique identifying information.
Paragraph c of this section will allow them to continue to use their own identifying information or to use a revision date. The date, revision date, or other revision-specific identifying information, such as document control numbers, will allow the facility operator and the Coast Guard to determine quickly if the most recent version of the manual is being used.
As specified in paragraph d of this section, the COTP will respond to the facilities electronically to reduce paperwork-processing costs. Under this rule, the COTP will provide notice to the facility that the manual has been examined, and will no longer return a marked copy of the manual to the facility.
The COTP will determine the best method to return the notice to the facility operator by considering the facilitys available contact information and the method in which the manuals were submitted. We expect the COTPs notice will initially take the form of a printed or electronically submitted letter to the facility operator, but could eventually include an electronic certification with the information. The COTPs notice will also include the manuals date, revision date, or other revision-specific identifying information so that the Coast Guard and facility
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operators can verify which manual is the most recently examined.
Per paragraph e, the COTP will notify a facility with an explanation of why a manual does not meet the requirements of this part, without having to return a printed copy. This enables electronic communication between the Coast Guard and a facility while reducing associated printing and mailing costs for the Coast Guard. The COTP retains the discretion to send the letters and manuals via mail to the facility when appropriate.1
Finally, within 127.019, as proposed in the NPRM, this rule removes the word existing where it appears in the context of existing facility in paragraphs a and b. Existing, as applied to a waterfront facility, is defined in 127.005, but the definition is limited to facilities that were constructed before June 2, 1988 for LNG
facilities, and before January 30, 1996
for LHG facilities. The specific dates used within the definition of existing were never intended to apply to the use of existing in this section. To avoid confusion, we are removing existing from this section. The requirements in paragraph a will continue to apply to all active facilities, and the requirements of paragraph b will continue to apply to all new or inactive facilities.
Section 127.309 Operations Manual and Emergency Manual: Use Paragraph a, in subpart B for waterfront facilities handling LNG, will require the operator to ensure that the person in charge PIC has either a printed or an electronic copy of the most recently examined Operations Manual and Emergency Manual readily available in the marine transfer area. In this paragraph, we added a statement beyond what was proposed in the NPRM to clarify that electronic devices used to view an electronic copy of the manuals must comply with applicable electrical safety requirements in part 127.
In 127.309, the phrase readily available in the marine transfer area means that a printed or electronic copy of the manual is available for viewing within the operating station of the PIC.
The PIC is not expected to keep the manual in their possession while conducting routine rounds during a transfer operation.
1 We use the term mail throughout this final rule to refer to the delivery method used by the COTP or the facility to send and receive printed copies of letters and manuals. These methods include, but are not limited to, the United States Postal Service, FedEx, United Parcel Service UPS, and courier.

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While PICs must know the contents of the manuals under paragraph 127.301a4, the Coast Guard recognizes that it is difficult for a PIC to instantly recall every step of every procedure outlined in these manuals.
Because both paragraphs 127.309b and c require each transfer and emergency operation to be conducted in accordance with the examined Operations Manuals and Emergency Manuals, respectively, it has been common practice for PICs to have a copy of the Operations Manual and Emergency Manual in the marine transfer area during transfer operations to reference when needed. Therefore, adding a requirement that a printed or electronic copy of the most recently examined Operations Manual and Emergency Manual must be readily available to the PIC in the marine transfer area does not add a significant burden to facility operators.
Section 127.1309 Operations Manual and Emergency Manual: Use Section 127.1309a in subpart C for waterfront facilities handling LHG
requires that the facility operators ensure the facilitys PIC has a printed or electronic copy of the most recently examined Operations Manual and Emergency Manual readily available in the marine transfer area. This requirement in paragraph a will help ensure that PICs have access to the manuals when needed, since there may be fewer printed copies available when facilities opt into electronic manual submission. For the purpose of this section, the phrase readily available in the marine transfer area means a printed or electronic copy of the manual is available for viewing within the operating station of the PIC, but the PIC
is not expected to keep the manual in their possession. With this final rule, we also added a statement to paragraph a to clarify that electronic devices used to view the electronic copy of the manuals must comply with applicable electrical safety requirements in part 127.
B. Part 154Facilities Transferring Oil or Hazardous Materials in Bulk Section 154.300 Operations Manual;
General The revised 154.300 allows facility operators to submit one printed or electronic copy of the Operations Manual to the COTP with a date, a revision date, or other revision-specific identifying information such as a document control number generated by the facility. This allows the facility and the COTP to determine quickly during inspections if the facility is using the most recent version of the manual. As
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