FMC Notice Describes Agency Reorganization, Technical Changes
The Federal Maritime Commission is reorganizing some of its functions by "revising certain delegations of authority from the Commission, updating descriptions of organization components, and making minor related technical amendments," it said in a Federal Register notice scheduled to take effect June 20.
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The notice described recent changes by the FMC to bring the competition staff of the Bureau of Trade Analysis and the Office of the General Counsel into a new Competition Section within the Office of the General Counsel. "This realignment enables the agency to have the economists and lawyers who make up our competition staff work together as one integrated unit," the commission said.
As part of the change, the FMC is deleting references in its regulations that mention the director of the Bureau of Trade Analysis. Under the commission's final rule on unreasonable carrier conduct published last year, carriers were required to file an annual, confidential export policy to the director of the Bureau of Trade Analysis (see 2407220019). Carriers should continue to send their documented export policies to the same email address at exportpolicy@fmc.gov, the agency said.