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46 C.F.R. § 16.500   Management Information System requirements.

Title 46 - Shipping

Title 46: Shipping
PART 16—CHEMICAL TESTING
Subpart E—Management Information System

§ 16.500   Management Information System requirements.

(a) Data collection. (1) All marine employers must submit drug testing program data required by 49 CFR 40.26 and Appendix H to 49 CFR part 40.

(2) The provisions in 49 CFR part 40 for alcohol testing do not apply to the Coast Guard or to marine employers, and alcohol testing data is not required or permitted to be submitted by this section.

(b) Data reporting. (1) By March 15 of the year following the collection of the data in paragraph (a) of this section, marine employers must submit the data on the form titled U.S. Department of Transportation Drug and Alcohol Testing MIS Data Collection Form (OMB Number: 2105–0529) by mail to Commandant (G-MOA), 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 20593–0001 or by Internet at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/moa/dapip.htm.

(2) The DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing MIS form can be downloaded and printed from http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/moa/dapip.htm or may be obtained from any Marine Safety Office.

(3) A consortium or other employer representative may submit data for a marine employer. Reports may contain data for more than one marine employer. Each report, however, must list the marine employers included in the report.

(4) Marine employers must ensure that data submitted by a consortium or other employer representative under paragraph (b)(3) of this section is correct.

(c) After filing 3 consecutive annual MIS reports since January 1, 1996, required by paragraph (b) of this section, marine employers with 10 or fewer covered employees may stop filing the annual report each succeeding year during which they have no more than 10 covered employees.

[USCG-1998–4469, 64 FR 22559, Apr. 27, 1999; 64 FR 31989, June 15, 1999, as amended by USCG-2003–16414, 69 FR 6578, Feb. 11, 2004]