WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Coast Guard has issued a notice called: Certificates of Alternative Compliance for the Eighth Coast Guard District.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on June 27 by J.E. Fothergill, Commander, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief of Prevention, Acting, By direction of the Commander, Eighth Coast Guard District.
Summary: The Coast Guard announces that the Eighth Coast Guard 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 desig...