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I wish to thank a Blog reader for the following information.  It has cleared up some things.  I looked on a totally different website for the current and new CFR, than the one listed below.  I looked at http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cfrassemble.cgi?title=200846 I also contacted several REC’s and they did not have this website information either, I’ll pass this along unless they are also reading my blogs.

“I noted you are having trouble finding 46 Part 11.  Part 11 was created in the same rulemaking that created the combined MMC.  While the hard copy CFR with the new changes has not been published, it is available on-line.  I suspect you looked for it at this web page:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html.

This isn’t the right place to look, it only has electronic versions of the printed CFR.  For the current FCR, you need to go to the “E-CFR” webpage at:
http://ecfr.gpoaccesss.gov/cgi/t/text/text-inx?c=ecfr&tpl=%2Findex.tpl  Within a week of a change the e-cfr is site is updated.

It includes the new Part 11: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=15601ec9cc6cff9e0308d71639853f9c&rgn=div5&view=text&node=46:1.0.1.2.11&idno=46″.

Thanks again Mr. Blog Reader. This is great information.

Touch Keys with you later.

N.

Hello everyone;

It’s been a while for me to set down to do my Blog.  I am not complaining, but my plate, thanks to you, is getting fuller and fuller - bad grammar - but true none the less.

If you have not had a chance to see the latest and greatest, I suggest you read and voice your opinions on this one.

See

Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 220/Tuesday, November 17, 2009/Proposed Rules.

It is 90 pages and covers 46 CFR Chapter 11, among other STCW items.  This is interesting to me because in the 2008 version of the CFR there was no Chapter 11.

Here is where my confusion comes in.  In the past 2-3 months, I have had many of you  send me copies of letters that you have received from the NMC requesting that you meet and comply with 46 CFR 11 . ???.  Obviously I have missed something along the way so I did a little research.  I have been on the CFR Website looking to make sure I have the most current CFR published in 2008, (2009 version has not been published yet according to those folks and they should know don’t ya think?).  I checked with several REC’s and they have also told me that there is no Chapter 11 in the current CFR so how can NMC tell you to comply with something that does not exist?

Now here are my questions. 

• How in bloody blue blazes can you, the mariner, possibly comply with something that has not been published yet? 
  
• How and where is NMC coming up with this? AND above everything else,
  
• Why is NMC permitting their evaluators to request items listed in 46 CFR 11 when 46 CFR chapter 11 does not currently exist?
• and WHAT THE H#(( have I missed?
  

That little tidbit was just the first thing that jumped out at me, I’m sure that I will have one or two more comments to send to the Coast Guard concerning these proposals.

So my suggestion to you would be to PLEASE READ THESE PROPOSED RULES CAREFULLY AS THEY AFFECT YOUR LIVELIHOOD and make your concerns and opinions and objections known.  Otherwise, YOU are going to have to live with the outcome.  Just like voting, if you didn’t vote, you don’t have a right to bitch.  Why do you think I am so good at bitching?

THIS DOES NOT GIVE YOU MUCH NOTICE SO PASS IT ALONG.

Hello everyone;  It has been ages since I have had time to write in my blog and I have all of you to thank for that.  You have been keeping me very very busy and mostly out of trouble.  Well, with my big mouth that is kind of hard to do but you are trying and again I thank you.

I just wanted to let all of you know (if you haven’t already seen it or heard about it) that the new Coast Guard Physical form is “Officially” out on the street, all 9 pages of it.  The current physical form that everyone is used to, can continue to be used until December 31, 2009.

BEGINNING

JANUARY 1, 2010

THE NEW REVISION 01-09

MUST BE USED

Touch Keys with you later,

N.