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In the Federal Register

No notices currently open for public comment.  See Advocacy - Policy - Federal Register for a list and descriptions of recently-closed notices and final rules related to recreational boating and RBS programs.

Recent Input to Federal Policy—Consensus Recommendations on Incident Reporting sent to Coast Guard

Recreational Boating Incident Reporting Policy Project "Phase One": A collaboration between the U.S. Coast Guard, States, and NASBLA/ERAC that was set in motion in November 2017 resulted in comprehensive recommendations to inform the development of national reporting policies and procedures. NASBLA membership voted in July 2020 to accept the recommendations package and approve its delivery to the Coast Guard Office of Auxiliary & Boating Safety. Updates on the federal response and information on next steps in this multi-year project will be posted here and in NASBLA Connect.

----Consensus Recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard (June 2020, accepted by vote of NASBLA membership July 31, 2020). PDF package includes items incorporated into the consensus recommendations document by reference---reporting decision matrix, summary chart of recommended report data elements, and updates of five report categories' terms and definitions originally developed in the USCG/ERAC Accident Reporting Terms and Definitions Project (2012-2013).
----Resource Document (v. June 2020): Extensive detail on the policy project and the process of developing the consensus recommendations

Meetings

It's a wrap/recordings available: NASBLA's 2021 State RBS Workshop was conducted virtually March 23-25. The first two days of this event covered a variety of topics and issues and the third targeted state RBS grants management "tools and tips." All of the workshop recordings (and any related handouts) are now available in NASBLA's eLearning Center.   Just click on the In-Person/Virtual Events section.


Publications

2018 NRBSS releases: Early December 2020, the Coast Guard released the 2018 written reports on the participation and exposure surveys that together make up what is known as the National Recreational Boating Safety Survey. The two reports can be downloaded from https://uscgboating.org/statistics/national-recreational-boating-safety-survey.php. A web-based Data Access and Query System (DAQS) also is available for users to generate tables and charts from the survey data using predefined queries and filters. The DAQS is available at https://boatingsurvey.org/

2020 annual boating statistics release. With everything that was going in 2020, you might have missed the U.S. Coast Guard's issuance of the annual Recreational Boating Statistics for 2019. The report shows 4,168 accidents involving 613 deaths, 2,559 injuries and about $55 million in damage to property as a result of recreational boating incidents. The fatality rate in 2019 was 5.2 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational vessels, a figure tying the second lowest rate in program history. Alcohol continued to be the leading known contributing factor in the fatal accidents, representing 23 percent of the total. Check out the full report for more detail.

 

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