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Electronic Submission of Mariner Course Completion Data
The Coast Guard published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 25, 2024. It took effect on January 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Coast Guard is requiring Coast Guard-approved training providers to electronically submit student course completion data to the Coast Guard within 5 business days of completion. The National Maritime Center will use this information to validate mariner course completion as part of an application for a Merchant Mariner Credential. In addition, the Coast Guard is replacing gendered titles for certain officer and rating endorsements in keeping with Coast Guard policy of using gender-neutral language whenever possible. We expect these changes to improve the Coast Guard's verification process of mariner credential applications and to appropriately conform terms that should be gender neutral.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-24271
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department; Coast Guard
- Published
- November 25, 2024
- Takes effect
- January 17, 2025
- Dates
- This final rule is effective January 17, 2025. Reporting requirements in 46 CFR 10.403(a)(7) need not be complied with until November 25, 2026. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in the rule was approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of July 6, 2016.
- Docket
- Docket No. USCG-2021-0097
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1625-AC75
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 46 CFR 10; 46 CFR 11; 46 CFR 12; 46 CFR 13; 46 CFR 15; 46 CFR 16; 46 CFR 30; 46 CFR 35; 46 CFR 39
- Topics
- Cargo vessels; Drug testing; Fire prevention; Foreign relations; Hazardous materials transportation; Incorporation by reference; Marine safety; Navigation (water); Occupational safety and health; Penalties; Personally identifiable information; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Safety; Schools; Transportation; Vessels
- Pages
- 101
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