National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee Meeting:
Location: William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center 555 W. Fifth Avenue Anchorage, Alaska
Time: Tuesday, September 10, 2024, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. (AKDT), and Wednesday, September 11, 2024, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. AKDT. Please note these meetings may close early if the Committee has completed its business.
Purpose: The U.S. Coast Guard’s National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee (NCFSAC) will meet to review, discuss, and make recommendations to the Coast Guard on matters relating to marine investigation cases and other relevant initiatives pertaining to commercial fishing vessels (CFVs). The full notice of the meeting and background information can be found at: Federal Register Docket No. USCG-2024-0431 or link: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/26/2024-19083/national-commercial-fishing-safety-advisory-committee-september-2024-meetings
Agenda: U.S. Coast Guard Information Session and Progress Update to Committee will include briefs on numbers and types of injuries and deaths caused by rotational and mechanical equipment, U.S. Coast Guard initiatives with search and rescue operations in and around wind farms, Very High Frequency (VHF) radio relay tower maintenance and Digital Selecting Calling (DSC) operational status in coastal Alaska and fire risks of emerging alternative propulsion technology (e.g., hydrogen, electric batteries etc.) on commercial fishing vessels.
The Committee will also be tasked with making comments and recommendations on preferred standards for material conditions, construction, and design to improve vessel seaworthiness, on whether CFVs should be subject to Safety Management System requirements, recognize the accomplishments and contributions of an advocate to fishing industry safety, continue review of the development of the CG-CVC-3 publicly accessible website that contains information related to fishing industry activities, including vessel safety, inspections, enforcement, hazards, training, and outages of the Rescue 21 system and other committee business.
Public comments: There will be public comment periods scheduled each day of the meeting. Speakers are requested to limit their comments to 3 minutes. Oral comment period may end early if the Committee has completed its business. There will be no live telecast of the meeting available. If you want your comment reviewed before the meetings, please submit your written comments no later than September 2, 2024. We are particularly interested in comments regarding the topics in the “Agenda”. To submit written comments go to https://www.regulations.gov, put “USCG-2024-043” in the search box and click “Search”. Next, look for this document in the Search Results column, and click on it. Then click on the Comment option. For more information on the Committee’s work go to https://www.dco.uscg.mil/NCFSAC.
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