As a courtesy to our audience, Maritime Commons will provide a daily compilation of nationally-relevant Federal Register Notices. To provide comments for the public record, follow the Federal Register link for each individual notice. Please note, the Coast Guard cannot respond to comments on these notices outside of the Federal Register.

The Coast Guard published a final rule amending its regulations to separately list an annual fee for renewals of endorsements upon the Certificate of Documentation. The Coast Guard is required to establish user fees for services related to the documentation of vessels.

This final rule will separately list a fee of $26 to cover the current costs of the vessel documentation services provided by the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard last promulgated user fees for vessel documentation services on November 15, 1993. Since then, renewal costs have increased and existing fees do not cover the operating and overhead costs associated with vessel documentation and recording activities.

This final rule is effective November 10, 2014.

This blog is not a replacement or substitute for the formal posting of regulations and updates or existing processes for receiving formal feedback of the same. Links provided on this blog will direct the reader to official source documents, such as the Federal Register, Homeport and the Code of Federal Regulations. These documents remain the official source for regulatory information published by the Coast Guard.