--- kind: "section" citation: "46 C.F.R. § 16.500" title: "46" number: "16.500" heading: "Management Information System requirements." url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/16.500" --- # §16.500. Management Information System requirements. - (a) **Data collection.** - (1) All marine employers must submit drug testing program data required by [49 CFR 40.26](/cfr/49/40.26.md) and appendix H to [49 CFR part 40](/cfr/49/part40.md). - (2) The provisions in [49 CFR part 40](/cfr/49/part40.md) for alcohol testing do not apply to the Coast Guard or to marine employers, and alcohol testing data is not required or permitted to be submitted by this section. - (b) **Data reporting.** - (1) By March 15 of the year following the collection of the data in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, marine employers must submit the data on the form titled U.S. Department of Transportation Drug and Alcohol Testing MIS Data Collection Form (OMB Number: 2105-0529) by mail to Commandant (CG-INV), Attn: Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis, U.S. Coast Guard Stop 7501, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20593-7501 or by Internet at https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Prevention-Policy-CG-5P/Inspections-Compliance-CG-5PC-/Office-of-Investigations-Casualty-Analysis/DAPI-Program-Main-Page/. - (2) **The DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing MIS form can be downloaded and printed from https—** //www.dco.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/Assistant-Commandant-for-Prevention-Policy-CG-5P/Inspections-Compliance-CG-5PC-/Office-of-Investigations-Casualty-Analysis/DAPI-Program-Main-Page/ or may be obtained from any Sector Office. - (3) A consortium or other employer representative may submit data for a marine employer. Reports may contain data for more than one marine employer. Each report, however, must list the marine employers included in the report. - (4) Marine employers must ensure that data submitted by a consortium or other employer representative under [paragraph (b)(3)](#b-3) of this section is correct. - (c) After filing 3 consecutive annual MIS reports since January 1, 1996, required by [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, marine employers with 10 or fewer covered employees may stop filing the annual report each succeeding year during which they have no more than 10 covered employees. ## Notes ### Amendments [USCG-1998-4469, 64 FR 22559, Apr. 27, 1999; 64 FR 31989, June 15, 1999, as amended by USCG-2003-16414, 69 FR 6578, Feb. 11, 2004; USCG-2006-25556, 72 FR 36330, July 2, 2007; USCG-2009-0702, 74 FR 49225, Sept. 25, 2009; USCG-2013-0671, 78 FR 60145, Sept. 30, 2013; USCG-2020-0304, 85 FR 58281, Sept. 18, 2020; USCG-2021-0834, 89 FR 102340, Dec. 17, 2024] ### Authority Authority: 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3306, 7101, 7301, and 7701; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4. ### Source Source: CGD 86-067, 53 FR 47079, Nov. 21, 1988, unless otherwise noted. ### Amendments [USCG-1998-4469, 64 FR 22559, Apr. 27, 1999; 64 FR 31989, June 15, 1999, as amended by USCG-2003-16414, 69 FR 6578, Feb. 11, 2004; USCG-2006-25556, 72 FR 36330, July 2, 2007; USCG-2009-0702, 74 FR 49225, Sept. 25, 2009; USCG-2013-0671, 78 FR 60145, Sept. 30, 2013; USCG-2020-0304, 85 FR 58281, Sept. 18, 2020; USCG-2021-0834, 89 FR 102340, Dec. 17, 2024]