2022-06416: Electronic Chart and Navigational Equipment Carriage Requirements
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The Coast Guard seeks public input regarding the modification of the chart and navigational equipment carriage requirements in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) outlines the Coast Guard's broad strategy to revise its CFR chart and navigational equipment carriage requirements to implement statutory electronic-chart-use provisions for commercial U.S.-flagged vessels and certain foreign-flagged vessels operating in the waters of the United States. This ANPRM is necessary to obtain additional information from the public before issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking. It will allow us to verify the extent of the requirements for the rule, such as how widely electronic charts currently are used, which types of vessels are using them, the appropriate equipment requirements for different vessel classes, and where the vessels operate, and will thereby allow us to tailor electronic chart requirements to vessel class and location.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 20 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 33 CFR 164 Navigation Safety Regulations
- 46 CFR 25 Requirements
- 46 CFR 26 Operations
- 46 CFR 28 Requirements for Commercial Fishing Industry Vessels
- 46 CFR 32 Special Equipment, Machinery, and Hull Requirements
- 46 CFR 35 Operations
- 46 CFR 77 Vessel Control and Miscellaneous Systems and Equipment
- 46 CFR 78 Operations
- 46 CFR 96 Vessel Control and Miscellaneous Systems and Equipment
- 46 CFR 97 Operations
- 46 CFR 108 Design and Equipment
- 46 CFR 109 Operations
- 46 CFR 121 Vessel Control and Miscellaneous Systems and Equipment
- 46 CFR 130 Vessel Control, and Miscellaneous Equipment and Systems
- 46 CFR 140 Operations
- 46 CFR 167 Public Nautical School Ships
- 46 CFR 169 Sailing School Vessels
- 46 CFR 184 Vessel Control and Miscellaneous Systems and Equipment
- 46 CFR 195 Vessel Control and Miscellaneous Systems and Equipment
- 46 CFR 196 Operations
Rulemaking docket
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