---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 138.60"
title: "33"
number: "138.60"
heading: "Forms and submissions; ensuring submission timeliness."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/138.60"
---

# §138.60. Forms and submissions; ensuring submission timeliness.

- (a) **Where to obtain forms.** All forms referred to in this subpart are available at the NPFC COFR program website, https://npfc.uscg.mil/cofr/default.aspx, and may be completed online or downloaded.
- (b) **Where to obtain information.** Direct all questions concerning the requirements of this subpart to the NPFC at one of the addresses in [paragraphs (c)(1)(ii) through (iv)](#c-1-ii..c-1-iv) of this section or by calling the NPFC at 202-795-6130.
- (c) **How to present Applications and other required submissions.**
  - (1) Provide all submissions required by this subpart to the Director, by one of the following four methods:
    - (i) **Electronically, using the eCOFR process (located at <I>https—** //npfc.uscg.mil/cofr/default.aspx);
    - (ii) By email, sent to such email address as the Director may specify, attaching legible electronic images scanned in a format acceptable to the Director;
    - (iii) By fax, sent to 202-795-6123 with a cover sheet specifying the total number of pages, the sender's telephone number, and referencing NPFC telephone number 202-795-6130; or
    - (iv) **By mail, addressed to—** Director, National Pollution Funds Center, ATTN: VESSEL CERTIFICATION, U.S. Coast Guard Stop 7605, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20593-7605.
  - (2) Submissions may not be hand delivered to the NPFC.
  - (3) **Do not present submissions by more than one method.**
- (d) **Required contents of submissions.** Unless otherwise instructed by the Director, all submissions required by this subpart must—
  - (1) Set forth, in full, the correct legal name of the COFR Operator to whom the COFR is to be, or has been, issued;
  - (2) Be in English, and
  - (3) **Express all monetary terms in United States dollars.**
- (e) **Ensuring the timeliness of submissions; requesting deadline exceptions.**
  - (1) Compliance with a submission deadline will be determined based on the day the submission is received by NPFC. If a deadline specified in this subpart falls on a weekend or Federal holiday, the deadline will occur on the next business day.
  - (2) Ensuring the timeliness of the submissions is the sole responsibility of the person making the submission.
  - (3) The Director may, in the Director's sole discretion, grant an exception to a deadline specified in this subpart for good cause shown.
- (f) **Public access to information.** Financial data and other information submitted to the Director is considered public information to the extent required by the Freedom of Information Act ([5 U.S.C. 552](/usc/5/552.md)) and permitted by the Privacy Act ([5 U.S.C. 552(a)](/usc/5/552.md?p=a)).

## Notes

### Source

Source: 86 FR 68139, Dec. 1, 2021, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 552(d); 33 U.S.C. 2704, 2716, 2716a; 42 U.S.C. 9608, 9609; E.O. 12580, Sec. 7(b), 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193; E.O. 12777, Secs. 4 and 5, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351, as amended by E.O. 13286, Sec. 89, 3 CFR, 2004 Comp., p. 166, and by E.O. 13638, Sec. 1, 3 CFR, 2014 Comp., p.227; Department of Homeland Security Delegation Nos. 00170.1, Revision 01.2 and 5110, Revision 01. Section 138.40 also issued under the authority of 46 U.S.C. 2103 and 14302.

### Source

Source: USCG-2005-21780, 73 FR 53697, Sept. 17, 2008, unless otherwise noted.