ADCI Informational Update 2013 - 41

(December 2013) 

CG-CVC recently completed an update to the COC form. The new form clarifies procedural issues for each category of vessel (Passenger, Oil/Chemical Tankers, Gas Carriers, Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU’s) and Floating Installations (FI’s)) and provides additional amendments to include a deficiency report. CG-CVC determined that adding the deficiency report to the COC form is an appropriate means to harmonize how the Coast Guard documents an exam which takes place beyond our Port State Control (PSC) authority (i.e., vessels operating beyond 12 nm (nautical miles) on the outer continental shelf (OCS), lightering zone or overseas exams). 

For the purposes of the COC form, a floating OCS facility or floating installation (FI) means a buoyant OCS facility securely and substantially moored so that it cannot be moved without special effort. This term includes tension leg platforms and permanently moored semisubmersibles or shipshape hulls but does not include mobile offshore drilling units and other vessels. In accordance with 33 CFR 143.120 and 46 CFR 107.211, a COI will be issued to MODU’s and FI’s that are U.S. flagged, undocumented or stateless. A COC will be issued to foreign flagged FI’s.