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The US Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) serves as a Federal interagency maritime policy coordinating committee for the purpose of assessing the adequacy of the marine transportation system (MTS), promoting the integration of the MTS with other modes and other uses of the marine environment, and coordinating the Federal MTS-related agencies with regard to policies that impact the MTS. The CMTS was established by the President’s Ocean Action Plan of 2004, chartered in July 2005, and authorized in statute in December 2012. [Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act (2012), (PL 112-213), (46 U.S.C.A. § 55501)]. For more information, visit the CMTS website: https://www.cmts.gov/. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_cmts or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530827.

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  • US Committee on the Marine Transportation System Terms of Reference
    U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Terms of Reference
    United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
    2025-03-11 | PDF
    The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) is a Federal maritime policy coordinating committee. The purpose of the CMTS is to create a partnership of federal departments and agencies with responsibility for the Marine Transportation System (MTS). CMTS federal agency members provide expert staff support through participation in in ...
  • Call to Action to Support Mariner Mental Health A Report of the CMTS Mariner Mental Health Working Group
    Call to Action to Support Mariner Mental Health: A Report of the CMTS Mariner Mental Health Working Group
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
    2025-03-11 | PDF
    This Call to Action to Support Mariner Mental Health documents steps that federal agencies will take to improve mariner mental health, including tangible actions for removing stigma, creating psychological safety, building trust and providing resilience training. The CMTS invites maritime workers and employers, unions, non-governmental and other ma ...
  • Summary of Opinions Regarding the Barriers to Preserving and Protecting Ports and Longterm Resilience
    Summary of Opinions Regarding the Barriers to Preserving and Protecting Ports and Long-term Resilience
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT)
    2025-03-01 | PDF
    This summary report outlines a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register, submitted by the CMTS, seeking information from public and private stakeholders regarding what types of tools --planning guidance, documents, datasets, and federal funding opportunities -- are being utilized in port resilience planning for changing physical and en ...
  • Port of Cleveland Ohio Supply Chain Disruption Tabletop Exercise After Action Report
    Port of Cleveland, Ohio: Supply Chain Disruption Tabletop Exercise — After Action Report
    United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
    2024-10-22 | PDF
    The CMTS Supply Chain and Infrastructure Integrated Action Team hosted a supply chain disruption tabletop in October 2024. The purpose of this exercise was for the Great Lakes Marine Transportation System and partners to identify policies, procedures, and regulations governing the resumption of trade following a supply chain disruption and identify ...
  • Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS August 1 2023 July 31 2024
    Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS: August 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024
    LeBoeuf, Nicole
    2024-07-31 | PDF
    The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) publishes an annual report as presented by the immediate past chair of the CMTS Coordinating Board. The annual report for August 1, 2023, to July 31, 2024, was produced by Ms. Nicole LeBoeuf, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for her term as Chair. The annual report ...
  • Federal Funding Handbook for the Marine Transportation System Sixth Edition March 2024
    Federal Funding Handbook for the Marine Transportation System, Sixth Edition, March 2024
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Supply Chain and Infrastructure Integrated Action Team
    2024-03-01 | PDF
    The Sixth Edition of the Handbook provides a compilation of 95 current and 20 archived federal funding programs related to MTS infrastructure. These programs span a range of federal departments and agencies with a variety of interests in the MTS and are designed to stimulate the economy and benefit the public. Funding opportunities within these pro ...
  • National Guidance for Responding to Munitions and Explosives of Concern in Federal Waters
    National Guidance for Responding to Munitions and Explosives of Concern in Federal Waters
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
    2024-01-01 | PDF
    Offshore energy development activities, including offshore wind, have the potential to uncover UXO and other military MEC, which can pose a serious threat to human safety and the environment. The guidelines established by this guidance provide a framework for lessees to contact the federal government, identify potential risks, and develop response ...
  • Innovative Science and Technologies Toward Greater Sustainability US Committee on the Marine Transportation System 7th Biennial Innovative Science and Technology Conference Summary of Recommendations
    Innovative Science and Technologies Toward Greater Sustainability: U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System 7th Biennial Innovative Science and Technology Conference Summary of Recommendations
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
    2023-12-01 | PDF
    The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) in partnership with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) held the Seventh Biennial Conference on the Marine Transportation System, “Innovative Science and Technologies Towards Greater Sustainability,” in person on June 20-22, 2023. Over this three-day forum, over 50 experts from gover ...
  • Port of Baltimore Maryland Supply Chain Policy Tabletop Exercise After Action Report
    Port of Baltimore, Maryland: Supply Chain Policy Tabletop Exercise After Action Report
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Supply Chain and Infrastructure Integrated Action Team
    2023-09-20 | PDF
    The CMTS Supply Chain and Infrastructure Integrated Action Team hosted a policy tabletop in September 2023. The purpose of this policy tabletop exercise was to focus on identifying policies, procedures, and regulations governing the resumption of trade following a supply chain disruption and identify strategies to mitigate supply chain disruption i ...
  • Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS August 1 2022 July 31 2023
    Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS: August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2023
    Graham, MG William “Butch”
    2023-07-31 | PDF
    The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) publishes an annual report as presented by the immediate past chair of the CMTS Coordinating Board. The annual report for August 1, 2022, to July 31, 2023, was produced by MG William “Butch” Graham, Department of Defense (DOD) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), for his term as Chair. ...
  • National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System Cultivating a Resilient and Sustainable Blue Economy 20232028
    National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System: Cultivating a Resilient and Sustainable Blue Economy: 2023-2028
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
    2023-03-01 | PDF
    The 2023-2028 National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System: Cultivating a Resilient and Sustainable Blue Economy (2023 Strategy) was developed by CMTS members through continued collaboration and multiple reviews. Members established 25 action items under five strategic priority areas: Priority Area 1: Strengthen Unity of Effort in the MTS ...
  • Compendium of Federal Programs in the Marine Transportation System
    Compendium of Federal Programs in the Marine Transportation System
    United States. Federal Maritime Commission  ...
    2022-12-01 | XLSX
    The Compendium of Federal Programs in the Marine Transportation System was developed by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and the CMTS Executive Secretariat to better inform the family of U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS) agencies of each other's MTS programs and responsibilities. It was created to be a user-friendly document, organized i ...
    Supporting Files
  • Marine TransportationRelated Federal Advisory Committees November 2022
    Marine Transportation-Related Federal Advisory Committees, November 2022
    United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
    2022-11-01 | PDF
    The CMTS has updated the directory of MTS-related Federal Advisory Committees. Advisory committees are a way of ensuring public and expert involvement and advice in Federal decision-making. In response to the growing number of advisory committees, Congress enacted the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) which established the guidelines under whic ...
  • US Committee on the Marine Transportation System CMTS Federal Maritime Security Directory August 2022
    U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)- Federal Maritime Security Directory August 2022
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)
    2022-08-01 | PDF
    U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS)- Federal Maritime Security Directory August 2022.
  • Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS August 1 2021 July 31 2022
    Actions and Accomplishments of the CMTS: August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2022
    Lessley, Lucinda
    2022-07-31 | PDF
    The U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) publishes an annual report as presented by the immediate past chair of the CMTS Coordinating Board. The annual report for August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022 was produced by Lucinda Lessley, Deputy Administrator for the Maritime Administration for her term as Chair. The annual report contain ...
  • An Assessment of the US Marine Transportation System Report to Congress 2022
    An Assessment of the U.S. Marine Transportation System: Report to Congress [2022]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
    2022-03-28 | PDF
    The MTS Assessment report was a requirement in the CMTS 2012 authorizing legislation and replaces the multiagency report issued through the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in 1999 titled, An Assessment of the U.S. Marine Transportation System. The 2022 Assessment reviews the MTS in two general ways: 1. Overall assessment in the areas of: In ...
  • Statement on the Advancement and Integration of Environmental Justice into the Marine Transportation System
    Statement on the Advancement and Integration of Environmental Justice into the Marine Transportation System
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Coordinating Board
    2022-03-23 | PDF
    The following environmental justice (EJ) policy statement was adopted by the CMTS Coordinating Board at their March 23, 2022 meeting. The statement was adopted to align the EJ activities of the CMTS with the EJ work of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Subcommittee on Science and Technology (SOST). It states that the CMTS “com ...
  • US Committee on the Marine Transportation System Coordinating Board 2014 Resolution on the Adoption of the S100 Marine Data Framework as amended
    U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Coordinating Board: 2014 Resolution on the Adoption of the S-100 Marine Data Framework, as amended
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Coordinating Board
    2022-03-22 | PDF
    This amended resolution reiterates CMTS support of the International Hydrographic Organization's S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model as its preferred data framework for the dissemination and exchange of digital marine safety information and related MTS data collection requirements. CMTS member agencies are committed to identify specific S-100 p ...
  • US Arctic Marine Transportation System Infrastructure Risk Resource Compendium
    U.S. Arctic Marine Transportation System Infrastructure Risk Resource Compendium
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Arctic Marine Transportation Integrated Action Team
    2022-03-01 | PDF
    The U.S. Arctic Marine Transportation System Infrastructure Risk Resource Compendium is a list of literature related to the identification, analysis and mitigation of risks derived from marine transportation system (MTS) infrastructure gaps in the U.S. Arctic compiled to aid and inform federal investment priorities and decisions in the region for t ...
  • Federal Funding Handbook for Marine Transportation System Infrastructure Fifth Edition March 2022
    Federal Funding Handbook for Marine Transportation System Infrastructure: Fifth Edition March 2022
    United States. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). Supply Chain and Infrastructure Integrated Action Team
    2022-03-01 | PDF
    The 2022 MTS Federal Funding Handbook provides a compilation of 77 current and 22 previous federal funding programs related to MTS infrastructure. These programs span a range of federal departments and agencies with a variety of interests in the MTS and are designed to stimulate the economy and benefit the public. Funding opportunities within these ...
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