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B-207399 1 (1982-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachij0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - NO MCULATI '(For 30 rayij, CONO.) COMPTROLLER GENERAL Or THE UJ'-ITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. U.D.44 B-207399 June 10, 1982 The Honorable George Miller Chairman, Subcommittee on Labor Standards Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your letter of April 29, 1982, concerning the Department of Transportation, Coast Guard, manning regulations for off- shore platforms and rigs. These regulations require the enployment of American citizens or legally resident aliens for activities on the Outer Continental Shelf after April 5, 1983. You request that we answer the following questions: 1. Has the Department of Transportation conplied with the timetable for the promulgation of regulations as mandated by the Outer Continental Shelf Amend- ments of 1978? 2. Is the Department of Transportation complying with the law by postponing the effective date of the manning requirements until April 1983 and, 3. Is the Department of Transportation complying with the law by creating, through regulation, an auto- matic 90-day exemption to the Outer Continental Shelf Amendments? In order that we provide an expedited response, you request that we not wait for Transportation's conents on these questions. Accordingly, we have only discussed these questions with the Coast Guard informally. For the reasons explained below we have concluded (a) that the Secretary of Transportation did not comply with the timetable for pro- mulgating regulations, (b) that the April 1983 date for compliance is required by the authorizing legislation and (c) that the exerrption re- ferred to in the third question is a reasonable exercise of adminis- trative discretion given Transportation under the statute. 1. Has the Department of Transportation complied with the timetable for the promulgation of regulations as mandated by the 1978 Amendrents?

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