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responsibilities between the Federal
Government and Indian tribes.
12. Energy Effects
This action is not a ‘‘significant
energy action’’ under Executive Order
13211, Actions Concerning Regulations
That Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use.
13. Technical Standards
This rule does not use technical
standards. Therefore, we did not
consider the use of voluntary consensus
standards.
14. Environment
We have analyzed this rule under
Department of Homeland Security
Management Directive 023–01 and
Commandant Instruction M16475.lD,
which guide the Coast Guard in
complying with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321–4370f), and
have determined that this action is one
of a category of actions that do not
individually or cumulatively have a
significant effect on the human
environment. This rule involves
implementation of regulations within 33
CFR Part 100 that apply to organized
marine events on the navigable waters
of the United States that may have
potential for negative impact on the
safety or other interest of waterway
users and shore side activities in the
event area. This special local regulation
is necessary to provide for the safety of
the general public and event
participants from potential hazards
associated with movement of vessels
near the event area. We seek any
comments or information that may lead
to the discovery of a significant
environmental impact from this rule.
This rule is categorically excluded
from further review under paragraph
34(h) of Figure 2–1 of the Commandant
Instruction. A preliminary
environmental analysis checklist
supporting this determination and a
Categorical Exclusion Determination are
available in the docket where indicated
under ADDRESSES. We seek any
comments or information that may lead
to the discovery of a significant
environmental impact from this rule.
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List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 100
Marine safety, Navigation (water),
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Waterways.
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Coast Guard amends 33
CFR part 100 as follows:
PART 100—SAFETY OF LIFE ON
NAVIGABLE WATERS
1. The authority citation for part 100
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1233.
2. At § 100.501, in the Table to
§ 100.501, make the following
amendments:
■ a. Under ‘‘(d) Coast Guard Sector
North Carolina—COTP Zone,’’ suspend
entry (d)4.
■ b. Under ‘‘(d) Coast Guard Sector
North Carolina—COTP Zone,’’ add entry
(d)5 to read as follows:
■
§ 100.501 Special Local Regulations;
Recurring Marine Event in the Fifth Coast
Guard District.
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(D.) COAST GUARD SECTOR NORTH CAROLINA—COTP ZONE
Number
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5 ................
Date
Event
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October 20, 2012,
from 7 a.m to 11
a.m.
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Wilmington YMCA
Triathlon.
Dated: June 28, 2012.
A. Popiel,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the
Port North Carolina.
[FR Doc. 2012–18154 Filed 7–24–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 100
[Docket No. USCG–2010–1024]
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Olympia Harbor Days Tug Boat Races,
Budd Inlet, WA
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of enforcement of
regulation.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard will enforce
the Special Local Regulation, Olympia
Harbor Days Tug Boat Races, Budd Inlet,
WA from 12 p.m. through 8 p.m. on
SUMMARY:
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Sponsor
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Location
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Wilmington YMCA ..
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The waters of, and adjacent to, Wrightsville Channel from
Wrightsville Channel Day beacon 14 (LLNR 28040), located at 34°12′18″ N, longitude 077°48′10″ W, to
Wrightsville Channel Day beacon 25 (LLNR 28080), located at 34°12′51″ N, longitude 77°48′53″ W.
September 2, 2012. This action is
necessary to restrict vessel movement
within the specified race area
immediately prior to, during, and
immediately after racing activity in
order to ensure the safety of
participants, spectators and the
maritime public. Entry into, transit
through, mooring or anchoring within
the specified race area is prohibited
unless authorized by the Captain of the
Port, Puget Sound or Designated
Representatives.
DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR
100.1309 will be enforced from 12 p.m.
through 8 p.m. on September 2, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions on this notice, call
or email Ensign Nathaniel P. Clinger,
Sector Puget Sound Waterways
Management Division, Coast Guard;
telephone 206–217–6045, email
SectorPugetSoundWWM@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast
Guard is providing notice of
enforcement of the Special Local
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Regulation for Olympia Harbor Days
Tug Boat Races, Budd Inlet, WA in 33
CFR 100.1309 on September 2, 2012,
from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The following area is specified as a
race area: All waters of Budd Inlet, WA
the width of the navigation channel
south of a line connecting the following
points: 47°05.530′ N 122°55.844′ W and
47°05.528′ N 122°55.680′ W until
reaching the northernmost end of the
navigation channel at a line connecting
the following points: 47°05.108′ N
122°55.799′ W and 47°05.131′ N
122°55.659′ W then southeasterly until
reaching the southernmost entrance of
the navigation channel at a line
connecting the following points:
47°03.946′ N 122°54.577′ W, 47°04.004′
N 122°54.471′ W.
Under the provisions of 33 CFR
100.1309, the regulated area shall be
closed immediately prior to, during and
immediately after the event to all
persons and vessels not participating in
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the event and authorized by the event
sponsor.
This notice is issued under authority
of 33 CFR 100.1309 and 5 U.S.C. 552 (a).
In addition to this notice in the Federal
Register, the Coast Guard will provide
the maritime community with advance
notification of this enforcement period
via the Local Notice to Mariners. If the
Captain of the Port determines that the
regulated area need not be enforced for
the full duration stated in this notice, he
may use a Broadcast Notice to Mariners
to grant general permission to enter the
regulated area.
Dated: July 2, 2012.
S.J. Ferguson,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the
Port, Puget Sound.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 110
[Docket No. USCG–2009–1131]
RIN 1625–AA01
Anchorage Regulations; Narragansett
Bay and Rhode Island Sound, RI
Coast Guard, DHS.
Final rule.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard is removing
an obsolete naval explosives anchorage
in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, and
adding an offshore anchorage in Rhode
Island Sound south of Brenton Point,
Rhode Island, for use by vessels waiting
to enter Narragansett Bay.
DATES: This rule is effective August 24,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments and material
received from the public, as well as
documents mentioned in this preamble
as being available in the docket, are part
of docket USCG–2009–1131 and are
available online by going to https://
www.regulations.gov, inserting USCG–
2009–1131 in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box, and
then clicking ‘‘Search.’’ This material is
also available for inspection or copying
at the Docket Management Facility (M–
30), U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions on this rule, call Mr.
Edward G. LeBlanc at Coast Guard
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Sector Southeastern New England, 401–
435–2351. If you have questions on
viewing the docket, please call Renee V.
Wright, Program Manager, Docket
Operations, telephone 202–366–9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Regulatory Information
On March 21, 2011, we published a
notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
entitled ‘‘Anchorage Regulations;
Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island
Sound, RI,’’ in the Federal Register (76
FR 15246). We received nine comments
on the proposed rule.
Basis and Purpose
The Secretary of Homeland Security
has delegated to the Coast Guard the
authority to establish and regulate
anchorage grounds in accordance with
33 U.S.C. 471; 1221 through 1236, 2030,
2035, 2071; 33 CFR 1.05–1; and
Department of Homeland Security
Delegation No. 0170.1. The purpose of
this rule is to remove an obsolete and no
longer used anchorage in Narragansett
Bay from the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), and formalize and
codify an area of Rhode Island Sound
that under current informal practice is
routinely used by mariners as an
anchorage while waiting to enter
Narragansett Bay.
Background
This rule removes the Naval
explosives anchorage described in 33
CFR 110.145(a)(2)(ii). Naval Station
Newport, Rhode Island had indicated to
the Coast Guard that this anchorage is
obsolete and no longer necessary for
naval purposes. Leaving this obsolete
anchorage in the CFR and on navigation
charts leaves mariners with the
mistaken impression that the area is
reserved for a special purpose (i.e.,
explosives vessel anchoring) when in
fact, it is no longer used or needed for
that purpose.
The rule also adds a new anchorage
to formalize and codify the current
practice of commercial vessels that
anchor in an area south of Brenton
Point, Newport, Rhode Island, while
waiting to enter Narragansett Bay.
Establishing this anchorage in the CFR,
and placing it on navigation charts, will
remove ambiguity and clarify for
mariners the preferred and safest area in
which to anchor offshore when waiting
to enter Narragansett Bay.
The new anchorage area would
encroach on a Navy Restricted Area (33
CFR 334.78). According to the
regulation, anchoring within the
Restricted Area is precluded only
during periods of mine warfare training.
However, mine warfare training is no
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longer conducted in that area. Thus, the
Coast Guard requested that the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers remove the
now-defunct area from the Code of
Federal Regulations. In a letter received
by the Corps of Engineers on May 5,
2011, the U.S. Navy also requested that
the Corps of Engineers disestablish the
Restricted Area as it is no longer
needed. (A copy of the letter from the
Commanding Officer, Naval Station
Newport, is included in the docket for
this rule.) In February 2012 the Corps of
Engineers initiated the rulemaking
process to remove the Restricted Area
from the Code of Federal Regulations.
Discussion of Comments and Changes
We received nine comments on the
proposed rule. One letter, from the
Office of Environmental Policy and
Compliance, U.S. Department of the
Interior (DOI), stated that DOI had no
comment on the proposed rule.
The Coast Guard received no
comments opposed to the section of this
rule that disestablishes the obsolete
naval explosives anchorage in
Narragansett Bay.
The other comments were from
private citizens, municipalities in the
Narragansett Bay area, a Rhode Island
state representative, and the
Massachusetts Attorney General, among
others. These comments expressed a
generally consistent theme: Comments
requested that the Coast Guard conduct
a more thorough environmental impact
analysis consistent with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Specifically, comments requested that
the Coast Guard’s NEPA analysis
discuss the possible adverse impacts to
the environment from potential use of
the proposed anchorage by tankers that
may deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG)
to the proposed Weaver’s Cove LLC
import facility in Mt. Hope Bay,
Massachusetts. Several comments
requested a public meeting to discuss
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the NEPA issue vis a vis the Weaver’s
Cove LNG proposal.
At the time the Coast Guard published
its March 2011 NPRM for this
rulemaking, Weaver’s Cove LLC was
seeking approval from the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
to build and operate a waterfront LNG
facility in Fall River, Massachusetts. On
June 20, 2011, Weaver’s Cove LLC
formally notified FERC that it was
withdrawing its proposals. On July 6,
2011, FERC issued documentation
vacating its July 15, 2005, authorization
to Weaver’s Cove for a waterfront
facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, and
terminating its (FERC’s) processing of
the Weaver’s Cove application for an
LNG offload facility in Mt. Hope Bay.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 100
[Docket No. USCG-2010-1024]
Olympia Harbor Days Tug Boat Races, Budd Inlet, WA
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the Special Local Regulation,
Olympia Harbor Days Tug Boat Races, Budd Inlet, WA from 12 p.m. through
8 p.m. on September 2, 2012. This action is necessary to restrict
vessel movement within the specified race area immediately prior to,
during, and immediately after racing activity in order to ensure the
safety of participants, spectators and the maritime public. Entry into,
transit through, mooring or anchoring within the specified race area is
prohibited unless authorized by the Captain of the Port, Puget Sound or
Designated Representatives.
DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 100.1309 will be enforced from 12 p.m.
through 8 p.m. on September 2, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
call or email Ensign Nathaniel P. Clinger, Sector Puget Sound Waterways
Management Division, Coast Guard; telephone 206-217-6045, email
SectorPugetSoundWWM@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard is providing notice of
enforcement of the Special Local Regulation for Olympia Harbor Days Tug
Boat Races, Budd Inlet, WA in 33 CFR 100.1309 on September 2, 2012,
from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The following area is specified as a race area: All waters of Budd
Inlet, WA the width of the navigation channel south of a line
connecting the following points: 47[deg]05.530' N 122[deg]55.844' W and
47[deg]05.528' N 122[deg]55.680' W until reaching the northernmost end
of the navigation channel at a line connecting the following points:
47[deg]05.108' N 122[deg]55.799' W and 47[deg]05.131' N 122[deg]55.659'
W then southeasterly until reaching the southernmost entrance of the
navigation channel at a line connecting the following points:
47[deg]03.946' N 122[deg]54.577' W, 47[deg]04.004' N 122[deg]54.471' W.
Under the provisions of 33 CFR 100.1309, the regulated area shall
be closed immediately prior to, during and immediately after the event
to all persons and vessels not participating in
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the event and authorized by the event sponsor.
This notice is issued under authority of 33 CFR 100.1309 and 5
U.S.C. 552 (a). In addition to this notice in the Federal Register, the
Coast Guard will provide the maritime community with advance
notification of this enforcement period via the Local Notice to
Mariners. If the Captain of the Port determines that the regulated area
need not be enforced for the full duration stated in this notice, he
may use a Broadcast Notice to Mariners to grant general permission to
enter the regulated area.
Dated: July 2, 2012.
S.J. Ferguson,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port, Puget Sound.
[FR Doc. 2012-18126 Filed 7-24-12; 8:45 am]
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