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Docket ID: [Docket Nos. TSA-2006-24191; Coast Guard-2006-24196]

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Maritime and land transportation security:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC); Enrollment Dates for the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA

DATES: TWIC enrollment in Los Angeles/Long Beach will begin on December 12, 2007.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issues this notice of the dates for the beginning of the initial enrollment for the
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) for the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA.

SUMMARY: Transportation Worker Identification Credential; enrollment—; Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA,

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT James Orgill, TSA-19, Transportation Security Administration, 601 South
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12th Street, Arlington, VA 222024220. Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing (TTAC), TWIC Program, (571) 2274545; email:
credentialing@dhs.gov.

Background

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the United States Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), issued a joint final rule (72 FR 3492; January 25, 2007) pursuant to the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), Pub. L. 107295, 116 Stat. 2064 (November 25, 2002), and the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (SAFE Port Act), Pub. L. 109 347 (October 13, 2006). This rule requires all credentialed merchant mariners and individuals with unescorted access to secure areas of a regulated facility or vessel to obtain a TWIC. In this final rule, on page 3510, TSA and Coast Guard stated that a phased enrollment approach based upon risk assessment and cost/benefit would be used to implement the program nationwide, and that TSA would publish a notice in the Federal Register indicating when enrollment at a specific location will begin and when it is expected to terminate.

This notice provides the start date for TWIC initial enrollment at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA. Enrollment in Los Angeles/Long Beach will begin on December 12, 2007. The Coast Guard will publish a separate notice in the Federal Register indicating when facilities within the Captain of the Port Zone Los Angeles/Long Beach, including those in the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach must comply with the portions of the final rule requiring TWIC to be used as an access control measure. That notice will be published at least 90 days before compliance is required.

To obtain information on the preenrollment and enrollment process, and enrollment locations, visit TSA's TWIC Web site at http://www.tsa.gov/twic .

Issued in Arlington, Virginia, on December 6, 2007. Stephen Sadler
Director, Maritime and Surface Credentialing, Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing, Transportation Security Administration.
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