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The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Coast Guard; nationwide
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 33 C.F.R. parts 101, 104, 105
- Issued
- 2021-04-21 Apr. 21, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-04-21
- End
- 2022-01-01 (reader-rule enforcement date); expired-TWIC discretion 'during the COVID-19 pandemic' (read as 2022-01-01)
- In force
- Apr. 21, 2021 to Jan. 1, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- facility and vessel security officers
- TWIC holders
- new hires at MTSA facilities
- Functions reached
- HR port access credentials
- PT/WH terminal access, escorts and security plans
- WF workforce with expired TWICs
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Coast Guard and ports AGY-USCG-PORTS
Operative words
However, the Coast Guard will delay enforcement until January 1, 2022. Applicable facilities and vessels are not required to update facility security plans (FSP)/vessel security plans (VSP) or install readers until the revised enforcement date.... The side-by-side escorting required in 33 CFR 101.105 for restricted areas will not be enforced during the COVID-19 [pandemic].... [The Coast Guard continues its enforcement discretion] on expired TWIC's during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Coast Guard will update industry prior to reinstating enforcement of this requirement.
Enforcement
46 U.S.C. 70119; 33 C.F.R. 101.410 as relaxed
Notes
In force throughout 2021 Q3: the pandemic access regime at every MTSA facility continued to January 1, 2022.
Retrieval noteText read in full. it carries no independent legal effect. The enforceable instruments are the COTP orders, 33 C.F.R. 160.216, 33 C.F.R. 105.125 and the CDC orders the bulletin describes (already cited in the record's enforcement field). Cite the bulletin as evidence of the operating regime, not as an order).