Lifejacket Approval Harmonization
| Citation | 84 FR 62546 |
| Record Number | 2019-24836 |
| Published date | 15 November 2019 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Coast Guard,Homeland Security Department |
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Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019–24776 Filed 11–14–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
[Docket No. USCG–2018–0565]
Lifejacket Approval Harmonization
AGENCY
: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION
: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY
: The Coast Guard is finalizing
the policy harmonizing personal
flotation device (PFD) standards
between the United States and Canada
by accepting a new standard for
approval of PFDs. As a result, PFD
manufacturers can meet a single North
American standard instead of separate
standards for the United States and
Canada. The standard is outlined in a
policy letter with a supporting
deregulatory savings analysis. This
policy letter is intended to promote the
Coast Guard’s maritime safety and
stewardship missions. This policy does
not affect existing PFD approvals and
does not require any action on the part
of boaters or mariners who have
approved PFDs on board.
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Document number USCG–2018–0565–0008 at
http://www.Regulations.gov under docket number
USCG–2018–0565.
ADDRESSES
: Documents mentioned in
this notice, and all public comments,
are available in our online docket at
http://www.regulations.gov, and can be
viewed by following that website’s
instructions.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
: For
information about this document call or
email Jacqueline Yurkovich, Coast
Guard; telephone 202–372–1389, email
Jacqueline.M.Yurkovich@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Background
On August 17, 2018, the United States
Coast Guard (USCG) published a Notice
of Availability and Request for
Comments (83 FR 41095) announcing
that it was harmonizing PFD standards
between the United States and Canada
by accepting a new standard for
approval of PFDs. The Coast Guard
outlined the new standard in a draft
policy letter with a supporting
deregulatory savings analysis and made
those documents available for public
comment. The Coast Guard received
input from six commenters.
Discussion of Policy and Comments
The Notice of Availability (83 FR
41095) summarizes the background of
the policy letter.
During the notice of availability
comment period, the Coast Guard
received input from six commenters,
including mariners, the Life Jacket
Association, the National Marine
Manufacturers Association, and the Boat
Owners Association of the United
States. Below are summaries of, and our
responses to, those comments.
Four commenters supported the
efforts to harmonize the PFD standards
with ISO 12402. One commenter also
stated that they supported and
appreciated the policy language stating
that lifejackets already approved would
remain in compliance with the new
policy. Some commenters also
suggested that the Coast Guard should
broaden the categories of buoyancy to
specifically allow Level 50 and youth
inflatable PFDs in appropriate
conditions. While the Coast Guard will
not include additional categories in this
policy letter, we will take the
suggestions of the commenters under
consideration in a future rulemaking.
One commenter stated that the Coast
Guard should address potential
confusion in the recreational boating
community with regard to the new
[policy] that ‘‘Adult devices that cannot
meet the requirements of Level 70 with
inherent buoyancy alone must be
marked ‘Approval conditions state that
this device must be worn to be counted
as equipment required by vessels
meeting Transport Canada or USCG
regulations.’ ’’
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As the Coast Guard
accepts alternatives to the markings of
inflatable PFDs, the commenter urged
that consideration should also be given
to adding markings that users need to
test or inflate the devices regularly in
order to be approved for use. The
commenter stated that adding markings
requiring inflatable PFD testing would
be in keeping with current Coast Guard
practices, such as those for PFD lights
where alkaline batteries must be
changed annually for devices to
maintain their approval. The commenter
concluded that, to this end, the USCG
and Transport Canada should consider
requiring inflatable PFD manufacturers
to add inspection tags, similar to fire
extinguisher inspection tags, to their
PFDs where owners can record and be
reminded of their periodic inspections
and tests. Additionally, the commenter
stated that the inflatable PFD age
requirement of 16 should be lowered to
age 13 to close the gap between the age
requirement for wearing a PFD, located
in 33 CFR 175.15 and the age range for
an inflatable PFD because PFD options
are more limited in the 13–16 age range.
The Coast Guard acknowledges these
concerns and suggestions and aims to
address any potential confusion about
the subject policy in this notice. With
regard to adding new requirements that
are not discussed in the new standard
being accepted, such as for additional
marking, testing, and inspection tags,
these measures are outside of the scope
of the policy letter that is the subject of
this notice. These other measures may,
however, be considered in future
rulemaking. Similarly, the Coast Guard
may consider the appropriateness of
inflatable PFDs for wearers under 16
years of age in a future rulemaking.
The Coast Guard also received
comments about the deregulatory
savings analysis. Specifically, one
commenter said that the cost savings
analysis projects various hypothetical
savings for the manufacturing sector and
the U.S. Government without regard for
the end users of the equipment (e.g.,
boaters, their families, insurance
companies, and community). The
commenter also stated that deregulation
proposed to benefit the manufacturers
may overlook the intended purpose of
life saving equipment and result in more
costs to the boating public, the U.S.
taxpayers, and the U.S. government. The
commenter also suggested other
modifications to law and policy that
might increase benefits in terms of lives
saved—such as improving the rate of
wear, improving visibility of PFDs at
nighttime, and considering user size and
weight.
The Coast Guard acknowledges that
this policy letter pertains to producers
of lifejackets primarily. Some portion of
the cost savings may be passed onto
consumers by lowering the final
purchase price of lifejackets for
consumers; however, the Coast Guard
has no data to indicate what share of the
cost savings would be passed onto
consumers. Additionally, the Coast
Guard has no evidence that this policy
would harm the boating public. The
Coast Guard determined that the PFDs
permitted by this policy letter provide
equivalent performance to a PFD that
meets the requirements of 46 CFR
160.064, 160.076, or 160.077–15.
Further, were any share of the cost
savings estimated here to be passed onto
consumers, the safety of the boating
public would be increased as lifejackets
would be cheaper. However, the stated
goal of the policy letter is harmonization
via a single standard for manufacturers
to meet. The Coast Guard will consider
this commenter’s other suggestions for
possible future action.
The commenter also said that the
international agreement should factor in
tariffs, exchange rates, trade agreements,
and currency valuations. It is not clear
how such secondary impacts would
affect harmonizing PFD standards
between the United States and Canada
and the commenter did not describe
how such secondary impacts were
relevant to this particular
harmonization. Consequently, the Coast
Guard does not believe these secondary
impacts are relevant to this issue.
The same commenter said that the
lifejackets used in the United States and
Canada are used in various water
conditions and weather conditions
impacting their effectiveness, and that
the length of time that a boater has been
in the water and the body of water the
boater is rescued from all have different
characteristics impacting the
effectiveness of lifejackets.
The commenter argued the maximum
cost savings could be realized by
ensuring that each and every boater who
is on the water is properly equipped
with the correct lifejackets because
historically most drownings involve
boaters without lifejackets. The Coast
Guard considers such additional
requirements to be outside the scope of
this policy letter.
Cost Savings Analysis
Since the affected population and
projected cost-savings estimates have
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remained the same from when we
published the deregulatory savings
analysis in August 2018, we have
retained the projected cost-saving
estimates for this notice, which we
present below. As stated in the
aforementioned economic analysis,
which is available in the public docket,
we estimate the annual net cost savings
to the U.S. industry to be $660,965 in
2016 dollars using a 7-percent discount
rate over a 10-year period of analysis.
We estimate the total discounted net
cost savings to U.S. industry over a 10-
year period of analysis to be between
$4.6 million and $5.7 million at 7- and
3-percent discount rates, respectively.
We estimate the annual net cost
savings to the U.S. government to be
$8,571 per year over a 10-year period of
analysis at a 7-percent discount rate. We
estimate the total discounted net cost
savings to the U.S. government to be
between $60,000 and $73,000 at 7- and
3-percent discount rates, respectively.
We also estimate an annual net cost
savings to foreign manufacturers of
$406,758 in 2016 dollars using a 7-
percent discount rate over a 10-year
period of analysis. We estimate the total
discounted net cost savings to foreign
industry over a 10-year period of
analysis to be between $2.9 million and
$3.5 million at 7- and 3-percent
discount rates, respectively.
We estimate the costs to industry from
this policy letter as a one-time switching
cost between $40,000 and $41,000 at 7-
and 3-percent discount rates,
respectively.
Under a perpetual period of analysis,
we estimate the total annualized cost
savings of our policy letter to the U.S.
economy to be $546,065 in 2016 dollars,
using a 7-percent discount rate, and
discounted back to 2016.
This notice is issued under authority
of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).
Dated: November 7, 2019.
J.G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and
Standards, U.S. Coast Guard.
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