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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 165
[Docket Number USCG–2017–0338]
Regulated Navigation Areas; Harbor
Entrances Along the Coast of Northern
California
Coast Guard, DHS.
Request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Coast Guard requests
public comments on the potential
establishment of Regulated Navigation
Areas (RNAs) at the harbor entrance
bars to Crescent Harbor, Humboldt Bay,
Noyo River, and Morro Bay. In order to
mitigate potential hazards and provide
transparent communication with all
mariners during hazardous weather
conditions, this proposed RNA
regulation would provide predictable
protocols to mariners for potential
restriction to traffic and conditions that
prohibit vessels from entering a
specified area surrounding each bar
during hazardous weather conditions
unless authorized by Commander,
District Eleven or a designated
representative. We seek your comments
on what you believe to be the potential
benefit or possible negative impact if we
were to establish RNAs at these harbor
entrances. We welcome all suggestions,
ideas, and solutions for maintaining
mariner and vessel safety during
adverse weather and sea conditions at
these harbor entrances.
DATES: Your comments and related
material must reach the Coast Guard on
or before March 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by docket number USCG–
2017–0338 using the Federal portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. See the
‘‘Public Participation and Request for
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section for
further instructions on submitting
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have questions about this notice of
inquiry, call or email Lieutenant Colleen
Ryan, Coast Guard District Eleven,
Waterways Management; telephone
510–437–5984, email Colleen.M.Ryan@
uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Table of Abbreviations
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
COTP Captain of the Port
DHS Department of Homeland Security
FR Federal Register
RNA Regulated Navigation Area
U.S.C. United States Code
§ Section Symbol
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Comments’’ portion of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
II. Background and Purpose
Since 1998 COTP San Francisco and
COTP Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB)
have issued various navigation safety
advisories and created numerous
emergency safety zones to mitigate risk
to mariners and their vessels transiting
the Crescent Harbor, Humboldt Bay,
Noyo River, and Morro Bay harbor
entrances during hazardous bar
conditions. These emergency safety
zones promulgated policies and
procedures for closing the bar to vessel
traffic, while also providing parameters
and procedures for waiver requests. The
use and application of emergency safety
zones to accomplish the required risk
mitigation does not provide advance
notice, consistency, or predictability of
Coast Guard actions to mariners; nor do
safety zones allow for the promulgation
of additional safety requirements to
mitigate risk of necessary transits of the
harbor bars. The RNAs under
consideration would define the
parameters and implementation
procedures for restricting access to the
applicable areas during hazardous
conditions and define safety
requirements for vessels operating
within the RNAs.
The current protocols for restricting
traffic in the vicinity of the Crescent
City, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and
Morro Bay harbor bar entrances are
insufficient and do not provide
consistency and predictability to the
mariner, or allow for the establishment
of bar crossing safety measures. The
existing warning promulgation process
is comprised of emergency safety zone
implementation which, due to the
emergent nature of heavy weather does
not allow for advance notice and does
not adequately ensure the safety of
persons and vessels operating in those
areas during heavy weather. Bars along
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the northern California coast experience
severe wave, sea, and current conditions
similar to the conditions that have
contributed to various marine casualties
along the northern Pacific coast. Coast
Guard and National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) casualty
investigations identified a need for
specific regulations to mitigate these
risks to ensure the safety of the mariners
and vessels operating in the vicinity of
bars (see NTSB, Safety Recommendation
M–05–009 at https://www.ntsb.gov/
investigations/AccidentReports/_
layouts/ntsb.recsearch/
Recommendation.asp:Rec=M-05-009).
On October 17, 2005, in a written
response to the NTSB M–05–009
recommendation, the Coast Guard
articulated its intention to develop
written policies for transiting west coast
bars and inlets. We consider access
restrictions within a defined RNA to be
the best method to ensure mariner and
vessel safety when adverse weather and
sea conditions make crossing the bar at
harbor entrances especially dangerous.
In November 2009, the Thirteenth Coast
Guard District published a final rule (74
FR 59098, Nov. 17, 2009) to mitigate bar
transit risks that addressed NTSB
recommendations M–05–009 and
M–05–010. The Eleventh Coast Guard
District is considering drafting a
proposal for a rule similar to 33 CFR
165.1325 to provide predictability to
local mariners regarding restrictions on
navigation in the vicinity of Crescent
City, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and
Morro Bay harbor bar entrances based
on weather, sea, tide, and river
conditions. Such a regulation would
establish predictable sea and weather
conditions that will set a ‘‘Go/No-go’’
standard for restricting recreational,
commercial fishing, and passenger
vessel access to the RNA.
III. Information Requested
Through this request for information,
the Coast Guard seeks comments and
information for agency consideration
and to inform any future establishment
of RNAs that would create bar closure
conditions as well as regulate vessel bar
transits during hazardous bar conditions
for all recreational, commercial fishing,
and passenger vessels. The Coast Guard
requests and encourages open
discussion and candid feedback on the
possibility of establishing RNAs for
Crescent City, Humboldt Bay, Noyo
River, and Morro Bay harbor bar
entrances. The following considerations
warrant special attention:
• Weather and sea conditions at the
bars that the maritime community
considers a risk to safe navigation for
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recreational vessels, passenger vessels,
fishing vessels and deep draft vessel;
• The economic impact of bar
closures and restrictions on the
maritime community; and
• Preferred methods of notification
for bar restrictions and closures.
IV. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
We encourage you to submit
comments through the Federal portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. If your
material cannot be submitted using
https://www.regulations.gov, contact the
person in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions. In your
submission, please include the docket
number for this notice of inquiry and
provide a reason for each suggestion or
recommendation.
We accept anonymous comments. All
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov and will include
any personal information you have
provided. For more about privacy and
the docket, visit https://
www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice.
All public comments will be available
in our online docket at https://
www.regulations.gov and can be viewed
by following that website’s instructions.
This document is issued under
authority of 33 U.S.C. 1231.
Dated: February 1, 2018.
James B. Pruett,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting
Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District.
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[EPA–R04–OAR–2017–0550; FRL–9974–24–
Region 4]
Air Plan Approval; KY; Fine Particulate
Matter and Ozone NAAQS Revisions
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve
portions of State Implementation Plan
(SIP) revisions submitted by the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, through
the Kentucky Division for Air Quality,
on December 21, 2016 and August 29,
2017, on behalf of the Louisville Metro
Air Pollution Control District (District).
EPA is proposing to approve the
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portions of the submittals that modify
the District’s Ambient Air Quality
Standards regulation, as incorporated
into the SIP. The revisions to the SIP
that EPA is proposing to approve
pertain to changes to the District’s air
quality standards for fine particulate
matter (PM2.5) and ozone to reflect the
2012 PM2.5 and 2015 ozone national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS).
EPA is proposing to approve these
portions of the SIP revisions because the
Commonwealth has demonstrated that
they are consistent with the Clean Air
Act (CAA or Act). EPA will act on the
other portions of the December 21, 2016,
and August 29, 2017, submittals in a
separate action.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before March 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R04–
OAR–2017–0550 at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
EPA may publish any comment received
to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video,
etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is
considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points
you wish to make. EPA will generally
not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madolyn Sanchez, Air Regulatory
Management Section, Air Planning and
Implementation Branch, Air, Pesticides
and Toxics Management Division, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta,
Georgia 30303–8960. Ms. Sanchez can
be reached via telephone at (404) 562–
9644 or via electronic mail at
sanchez.madolyn@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Sections 108 and 109 of the CAA
govern the establishment, review, and
revision, as appropriate, of the NAAQS
to protect public health and welfare.
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The CAA requires periodic review of the
air quality criteria—the science upon
which the standards are based—and the
standards themselves. EPA’s regulatory
provisions that govern the NAAQS are
found at 40 CFR 50—National Primary
and Secondary Ambient Air Quality
Standards. In this rule, EPA is
proposing to approve the portions of the
revisions to the Jefferson County air
quality regulations 1 addressing
Regulation 3.01, Ambient Air Quality
Standards, in the Kentucky SIP,
submitted by the Commonwealth on
December 21, 2016, and August 29,
2017. Regulation 3.01 is amended 2 by
updating air quality standards in
Section 7 for PM2.5 and ozone to reflect
the most recent NAAQS, removing the
numbering of the subsections in Section
7, and making textual modifications to
the footnotes. The SIP submittals
amending the Jefferson County
regulations to incorporate the most
recent PM2.5 and ozone NAAQS can be
found in the docket for this rulemaking
at www.regulations.gov and are
summarized below.
II. EPA’s Analysis of Kentucky’s
Submittal
On December 14, 2012 (78 FR 3086),
EPA promulgated a revised primary
annual PM2.5 NAAQS, strengthening it
from 15.0 micrograms per cubic meter
(mg/m3) to 12.0 mg/m3, and retained the
existing primary 24-hour PM2.5 standard
at 35 mg/m3. Accordingly, in the August
29, 2017, SIP submittal, the District
revised Regulation 3.01, Ambient Air
Quality Standards, to update the
primary air quality standard for PM2.5 to
be consistent with the NAAQS that were
promulgated by EPA in 2012. EPA has
reviewed this change to the Jefferson
County regulation for PM2.5 and has
made the determination that this change
is consistent with federal regulations.
On October 1, 2015 (80 FR 65292),
EPA promulgated revised 8-hour
primary and secondary ozone NAAQS,
strengthening both from 0.075 parts per
1 In 2003, the City of Louisville and Jefferson
County governments merged and the ‘‘Jefferson
County Air Pollution Control District’’ was renamed
the ‘‘Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control
District.’’ However, each of the regulations in the
Jefferson County portion of the Kentucky SIP still
has the subheading ‘‘Air Pollution Control District
of Jefferson County.’’ Thus, to be consistent with
the terminology used in the SIP, EPA refers
throughout this notice to regulations contained in
the Jefferson County portion of the Kentucky SIP as
the ‘‘Jefferson County’’ regulations.
2 The District refers to the revised version of
Regulation 3.01 in its December 21, 2016, submittal
as ‘‘Version 6’’ and the revised version of
Regulation 3.01 in its August 29, 2017, submittal as
‘‘Version 7.’’ Upon EPA’s final approval of changes
to Regulation 3.01, the text of the regulation in the
SIP will reflect Version 7.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 165
[Docket Number USCG-2017-0338]
Regulated Navigation Areas; Harbor Entrances Along the Coast of
Northern California
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard requests public comments on the potential
establishment of Regulated Navigation Areas (RNAs) at the harbor
entrance bars to Crescent Harbor, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and Morro
Bay. In order to mitigate potential hazards and provide transparent
communication with all mariners during hazardous weather conditions,
this proposed RNA regulation would provide predictable protocols to
mariners for potential restriction to traffic and conditions that
prohibit vessels from entering a specified area surrounding each bar
during hazardous weather conditions unless authorized by Commander,
District Eleven or a designated representative. We seek your comments
on what you believe to be the potential benefit or possible negative
impact if we were to establish RNAs at these harbor entrances. We
welcome all suggestions, ideas, and solutions for maintaining mariner
and vessel safety during adverse weather and sea conditions at these
harbor entrances.
DATES: Your comments and related material must reach the Coast Guard on
or before March 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2017-0338 using the Federal portal at https://www.regulations.gov. See
the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for further instructions on
submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this
notice of inquiry, call or email Lieutenant Colleen Ryan, Coast Guard
District Eleven, Waterways Management; telephone 510-437-5984, email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Table of Abbreviations
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
COTP Captain of the Port
DHS Department of Homeland Security
FR Federal Register
RNA Regulated Navigation Area
U.S.C. United States Code
Sec. Section Symbol
II. Background and Purpose
Since 1998 COTP San Francisco and COTP Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/
LB) have issued various navigation safety advisories and created
numerous emergency safety zones to mitigate risk to mariners and their
vessels transiting the Crescent Harbor, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and
Morro Bay harbor entrances during hazardous bar conditions. These
emergency safety zones promulgated policies and procedures for closing
the bar to vessel traffic, while also providing parameters and
procedures for waiver requests. The use and application of emergency
safety zones to accomplish the required risk mitigation does not
provide advance notice, consistency, or predictability of Coast Guard
actions to mariners; nor do safety zones allow for the promulgation of
additional safety requirements to mitigate risk of necessary transits
of the harbor bars. The RNAs under consideration would define the
parameters and implementation procedures for restricting access to the
applicable areas during hazardous conditions and define safety
requirements for vessels operating within the RNAs.
The current protocols for restricting traffic in the vicinity of
the Crescent City, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and Morro Bay harbor bar
entrances are insufficient and do not provide consistency and
predictability to the mariner, or allow for the establishment of bar
crossing safety measures. The existing warning promulgation process is
comprised of emergency safety zone implementation which, due to the
emergent nature of heavy weather does not allow for advance notice and
does not adequately ensure the safety of persons and vessels operating
in those areas during heavy weather. Bars along the northern California
coast experience severe wave, sea, and current conditions similar to
the conditions that have contributed to various marine casualties along
the northern Pacific coast. Coast Guard and National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) casualty investigations identified a need for
specific regulations to mitigate these risks to ensure the safety of
the mariners and vessels operating in the vicinity of bars (see NTSB,
Safety Recommendation M-05-009 at https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/_layouts/ntsb.recsearch/Recommendation.asp:Rec=M-05-009).
On October 17, 2005, in a written response to the NTSB M-05-009
recommendation, the Coast Guard articulated its intention to develop
written policies for transiting west coast bars and inlets. We consider
access restrictions within a defined RNA to be the best method to
ensure mariner and vessel safety when adverse weather and sea
conditions make crossing the bar at harbor entrances especially
dangerous. In November 2009, the Thirteenth Coast Guard District
published a final rule (74 FR 59098, Nov. 17, 2009) to mitigate bar
transit risks that addressed NTSB recommendations M-05-009 and M-05-
010. The Eleventh Coast Guard District is considering drafting a
proposal for a rule similar to 33 CFR 165.1325 to provide
predictability to local mariners regarding restrictions on navigation
in the vicinity of Crescent City, Humboldt Bay, Noyo River, and Morro
Bay harbor bar entrances based on weather, sea, tide, and river
conditions. Such a regulation would establish predictable sea and
weather conditions that will set a ``Go/No-go'' standard for
restricting recreational, commercial fishing, and passenger vessel
access to the RNA.
III. Information Requested
Through this request for information, the Coast Guard seeks
comments and information for agency consideration and to inform any
future establishment of RNAs that would create bar closure conditions
as well as regulate vessel bar transits during hazardous bar conditions
for all recreational, commercial fishing, and passenger vessels. The
Coast Guard requests and encourages open discussion and candid feedback
on the possibility of establishing RNAs for Crescent City, Humboldt
Bay, Noyo River, and Morro Bay harbor bar entrances. The following
considerations warrant special attention:
Weather and sea conditions at the bars that the maritime
community considers a risk to safe navigation for
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recreational vessels, passenger vessels, fishing vessels and deep draft
vessel;
The economic impact of bar closures and restrictions on
the maritime community; and
Preferred methods of notification for bar restrictions and
closures.
IV. Public Participation and Request for Comments
We encourage you to submit comments through the Federal portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be submitted using
https://www.regulations.gov, contact the person in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for alternate
instructions. In your submission, please include the docket number for
this notice of inquiry and provide a reason for each suggestion or
recommendation.
We accept anonymous comments. All comments received will be posted
without change to https://www.regulations.gov and will include any
personal information you have provided. For more about privacy and the
docket, visit https://www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice.
All public comments will be available in our online docket at
https://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following that
website's instructions.
This document is issued under authority of 33 U.S.C. 1231.
Dated: February 1, 2018.
James B. Pruett,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard
District.
[FR Doc. 2018-02503 Filed 2-7-18; 8:45 am]
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