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Subject
01-17
Means Of Escape On Fixed Platforms
04-16
Lifesaving Inspection And Emergency Evacuation Drills On Manned Facilities (Including Mobile Offshore Drilling Units) On The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
03-16
Interim Coast Guard Eighth District Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Risk-Based Inspection Resource Allocation Methodology
02-16
Structural Integrity Management (SIM) Program As An Alternative Hull Inspection For Floating Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Facilities
01-15
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Emergency Evacuation Plan (EEP) Approvals
01-14
Guidance On Post-Hurricane Inspection Requirements For Floating Offshore Production Facilities
06-04
Guardrails and Storm Rail Requirements for Floating Offshore Installations (FOIs)
05-04
Use of Hose Reels with Non-Collapsible Hard-Rubber Fire Hoses on Floating Offshore Supply Installations
03-04
In-Service Inspection Prog (ISIP) for Floating Facilities in OCS
02-04
Foreign Crewmembers Working on board OSVs
05-03
Means of Escape on Manned and Unmanned Fixed Platforms
01-03
Dynamic Positioning (DP), Use of by Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) for Oil and Hazmat Transfers
09-01
OSV, Multi-Service Certification
08-01
Licensing Requirements for Personnel on Non-Self Propelled Floating OCS Facilities
03-00
Manning of Non-Self Propelled Floating OCS Facilities (Replaced by 03-2000, 20 Oct 00)
99-19
MODU Lifeboat Gear Tests
99-18
Rescue Boats on Board OSVs
99-17
MODU Berthing Sizes
99-16
OSV Exemption From IMO Resolution A.673(16)
99-06
Lifeboat Releasing Gera Tests -- See 46 CFR 109.301
98-31
Rescue Boat Requirements on OSVs
98-26
OCS Facility Casualty Notification
98-21
Persons Allowed on Lifeboats
98-14
Service Inspection Plans
98-12
Lifeboat Releasing Gera Tests -- See 46 CFR 109.301
98-03
Sea Service Credit on Liftboats
97-20
Tankerman Requirements on OSVs
97-17
Manning Requirements for Non-Self Propelled MODUs --See MSM Vol III, Ch 16
97-14
ITC Tonnage Issues for OSVs
97-13
Transfer of Excess Fuel From Crew Boats
97-12
Route restrictions on Lifeboats
97-11
Coastwise Trade Determination
97-08
Classification Society Exams of MODU Structures
97-05
STCW Applicability to MODUs