Section 298.10 - Citizenship(a)Applicability. Before you receive a legal or beneficial interest in a Vessel financed under Title XI of the Act which is operating in or will be operated in the U.S. coastwise trade, you and any other Person, (including the shipowner and any bareboat charterer), must establish your United States citizenship, within the definition of "Citizen of the United States" in § 298.2 .(b)Prior to Letter Commitment. Before we issue the Letter Commitment, you and any Person identified in paragraph (a) of this section, who is required to establish United States citizenship must establish United States citizenship in the form and manner stated in 46 CFR part 355 .(c)Commitment Closing.(1) Within 10 days before every Commitment Closing, unless we waive this requirement for good cause, you and all Persons identified with the project who have previously established United States citizenship in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, must submit pro forma Supplemental Affidavits of Citizenship which we have approved for Closing as to form and substance, and(2) On the date of the Closing, three(3) executed copies of Supplemental Affidavits of Citizenship that: (i) Show evidence of the continuing United States citizenship of the Persons in paragraph (a) of this section; and(ii) Bear the date of the Closing.(d)Additional information. If we request additional material essential to clarify or support evidence of U.S. citizenship, you, the Obligor, or any Person identified in paragraph (a) of this section must submit the additional information.Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 2133-0012