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Coast Guard Proposes Delay in TWIC Readers for Certain Facilities

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

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The Coast Guard is proposing a three-year delay in requiring the deployment of transportation worker credentials in certain facilities and is taking the next month to accept comments on the plan.“This proposed delay is to consider industry input asking us to reconsider the scope of the TWIC Reader final rule and to re-evaluate the underlying methodology used to determine the facilities subject to the electronic TWIC inspection requirements,” says Capt. Ryan Manning, chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Port…

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