Sec. 352. Improvements to Coast Guard communication with North Pacific maritime and fishing industry
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The Commandant shall ensure the timely upgrade of the Rescue 21 system in Alaska so as to achieve, not later than August 30, 2023, 98 percent operational availability of remote fixed facility sites. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall develop an operations and maintenance plan for the Rescue 21 system in Alaska that anticipates maintenance needs so as to reduce Rescue 21 system outages to the maximum extent practicable. The plan required by subparagraph
(A)shall be made available to the public on a publicly accessible internet website. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that— contains a plan for the Coast Guard to notify mariners of radio outages for towers owned and operated by the Seventeenth Coast Guard District; addresses in such plan how the Seventeenth Coast Guard will— disseminate updates regarding outages on social media not less frequently than every 48 hours; provide updates on a publicly accessible website not less frequently than every 48 hours; develop methods for notifying mariners in areas in which cellular connectivity does not exist; and develop and advertise a web-based communications update hub on AM/FM radio for mariners; and identifies technology gaps necessary to implement the plan and provides a budgetary assessment necessary to implement the plan. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commandant shall, in collaboration with relevant Federal and State entities (including the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Weather Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, agencies of the State of Alaska, local radio stations, and stakeholders), establish a contingency plan to ensure that notifications of an outage of the Rescue 21 system in Alaska are broadly disseminated in advance of such outage. The plan required by subparagraph
(A)shall require Coast Guard— to disseminate updates regarding outages on social media not less frequently than every 48 hours during an outage; to provide updates on a publicly accessible website not less frequently than every 48 hours during an outage; to notify mariners in areas in which cellular connectivity does not exist; to develop and advertise a web-based communications update hub on AM/FM radio for mariners; and to identify technology gaps necessary to implement the plan and provides a budgetary assessment necessary to implement the plan. The Commandant, in coordination with the National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee established by section 15102 of title 46, United States Code, shall develop a publicly accessible internet website that contains all information related to fishing industry activities, including vessel safety, inspections, enforcement, hazards, training, regulations (including proposed regulations), Rescue 21 system outages and similar outages, and any other fishing-related activities. The Commandant shall provide methods for regular and automatic email communications with stakeholders who elect, through the internet website developed under paragraph (1), to receive such communications. In consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and commercial fishing industry participants, the Commandant shall develop and publish on a publicly available internet website a plan for notifying United States mariners and the operators of United States fishing vessels in advance of— military exercises in the exclusive economic zone of the United States (as defined in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1802 )); or other military activities that will impact recreational or commercial activities.
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Improvements to Coast Guard communication with North Pacific maritime and fishing industry
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