# Maritime Administration
**AGENCY:**
Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
**ACTION:**
Extension of comment period.
**SUMMARY:**
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) is hereby giving notice that the closing date for comments in Docket No. MARAD-2000-7841, application of Marine Transport Corporation for written permission for temporary transfer to the coastwise trade of the integrated tug barge *SMT Chemical Trader* , has been extended to close of business (5:00 p.m. edt) September 15, 2000. The notice of application in Docket No. MARAD-2000-7841 was published in the *Federal Register* of August 28, 2000 (65 FR 52157-52158).
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By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: September 1, 2000.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.