# 2024-31604: Feds Ask Public: Should Foreign Boat Compete With Americans?

2024-31604, Coastwise Endorsement Eligibility Determination for a Foreign-Built Vessel: Open Seas (Motor); Invitation for Public Comments, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective Submit comments on or before February 5, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31604
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31604
- Title: Coastwise Endorsement Eligibility Determination for a Foreign-Built Vessel: Open Seas (Motor); Invitation for Public Comments
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: Submit comments on or before February 5, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Feds Ask Public: Should Foreign Boat Compete With Americans?

## Summary

The Maritime Administration is checking if the foreign-built vessel Open Seas can get permission to carry up to 12 paying passengers along the U.S. coast. They want to hear from U.S. boat builders and businesses about how this might affect them. If you have thoughts, send your comments by February 5, 2025—this could impact local jobs and business opportunities.

## Abstract

The Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to issue coastwise endorsement eligibility determinations for foreign-built vessels which will carry no more than twelve passengers for hire. A request for such a determination has been received by MARAD. By this notice, MARAD seeks comments from interested parties as to any effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. Information about the requestor's vessel, including a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

## Effects PRIA read

- Protects U.S. Vessel Builders and Operators: benefit, medium. MARAD is asking for public comments by February 5, 2025 on whether the foreign-built 28' motor vessel Open Seas should be allowed to carry up to 12 paying passengers for fishing charters based in Soldotna, Western Alaska. If MARAD finds that allowing the vessel to operate would have an "unduly adve…
- Risk to the Foreign-Built Vessel Operator: cost, low. The owner of the foreign-built vessel Open Seas, a 28' motor seeking to run passenger fishing charters for up to 12 paying customers from Soldotna, Alaska, may be denied coastwise endorsement if commenters show the vessel would cause an "unduly adverse effect" on U.S. builders or businesses. Intere…

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## Sources
- [2024-31604 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31604/coastwise-endorsement-eligibility-determination-for-a-foreign-built-vessel-open-seas-motor)
- [2024-31604 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31604.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31604 (as of 2026-06-08).