---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 389.3"
title: "46"
number: "389.3"
heading: "Registration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/389.3"
---

# §389.3. Registration.


In order to provide timely notification and to identify potential participants to each other so they may examine how they can best work together to maximize use of coastwise-qualified vessels, the Maritime Administration will require early notification as outlined in this section.

- (a) **Registration of coastwise-qualified vessel for platform jacket transportation.** In January of each calendar year, the Maritime Administration will publish a notice in the Federal Register requesting that owners or operators or potential owners or operators of coastwise-qualified launch barges, or other interested parties notify the agency of:
  - (1) Their interest in participating in the transportation and, if needed, the launching or installation of offshore platform jackets;
  - (2) Provide the agency with their contact information; and,
  - (3) Provide specifications of any currently owned or operated coastwise-qualified launch barges or plans to construct same.
- (b) **Registration requirement for transportation of platform jackets when non-coastwise-qualified vessels may be required.** When a current or potential owner or operator of any type of offshore exploration, development, or production structure expects to require the use of a non-coastwise-qualified vessel in the transportation of a platform jacket it must notify the Maritime Administration. Such notification must be on the earlier of either:
  - (1) The date of filing of the Development and Production Plan (DPP) or Development Operations Coordination Document (DOCD) with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement as required by [30 CFR 250.201](/cfr/30/250.201.md); or
  - (2) A date not later than twenty-one (21) months before the proposed date of using a non-coastwise qualified vessel for transportation of a platform jacket.
- (c) The early notification information to be provided to the Maritime Administration by a platform owner or operator shall include:
  - (1) A summary of technical details of the platform jacket to be transported and, if needed, launched or installed;
  - (2) The projected physical specification of a suitable vessel to be used in the project;
  - (3) The projected time period, and load and destination sites, for the platform jacket transportation; and
  - (4) Full contact information for the applicant and its representatives having decision-making authority with respect to the utilization of vessels for transportation and, if needed, the launching or installation of a platform jacket.
- (d) The information in paragraphs [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), and [(c)](#c) of this section must be submitted either electronically to cargo.MARAD@dot.gov or delivered to the Secretary, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Any information that is business confidential must be so identified and accompanied by a justification for that characterization.
- (e) The Maritime Administration will publish a list of potential coastwise-qualified launch barge owners/operators on the agency's Web site at http://MARAD.dot.gov. The Maritime Administration will publish a summary of early notification information delineated by [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section on its Web site and also disseminate it to registered potential coastwise-qualified launch barge owners/operators and other interested parties.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322(a); 46 U.S.C. 55102; 46 U.S.C. 55108; Public Law 108-293, 118 Stat 1028; and 49 CFR 1.66.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 62474, Oct. 12, 2010, unless otherwise noted.