WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Coast Guard has issued a notice called: Certificates of Alternative Compliance for the Coast Guard Heartland District.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on May 13 by J.B. Wheeler, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief of Prevention, Coast Guard Heartland District.
Summary: The Coast Guard announces that the Coast Guard Heartland District's Prevention Division has issued certificates of alternative compliance from the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to vessels of special construction or purpose that cannot fully comply with the light, shape, and sound signal provisions of 72 COLREGS without interfering with the vessel's design and construction. We are issuing th...