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operators; and to the extent reasonably
practicable, at least 60-minutes advance
notice of schedule changes or delays.
Vessels able to pass through the
bridge in the closed position may do so
at anytime. The bridge will be able to
open for emergencies and there is no
immediate alternate route for vessels to
pass. The Coast Guard will also inform
the users of the waterways through our
Local and Broadcast Notices to Mariners
of the change in operating schedule for
the bridge so that vessel operators can
arrange their transits to minimize any
impact caused by the temporary
deviation.
In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e),
the drawbridge must return to its regular
operating schedule immediately at the
end of the effective period of this
temporary deviation. This deviation
from the operating regulations is
authorized under 33 CFR 117.35.
II. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
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We view public participation as
essential to effective rulemaking, and
will consider all comments and material
received during the comment period.
Your comment can help shape the
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CONTACT section of this document for
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Dated: January 3, 2020.
Barry Dragon,
Director, Bridge Branch, Seventh Coast Guard
District.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 117
[Docket No. USCG–2019–0910]
Drawbridge Operation Regulation;
Bayou Sara, Saraland, AL
Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of temporary deviation
from regulations; request for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Coast Guard has issued a
temporary deviation from the operating
schedule that governs the CSX
Transportation Railroad swing bridge
across Bayou Sara, mile 0.1 near
Saraland, Alabama. This deviation is
needed to collect and analyze
information on vessel traffic when the
bridge tender is moved to a
geographically remote centralized
control point located in Mobile, AL. The
Coast Guard is seeking comments from
the public about the impact to vessel
traffic generated by this change.
DATES: This deviation is effective from
6 a.m. January 23, 2020 through 6 p.m.
March 23, 2020.
Comments and related material must
be received by the Coast Guard on or
before March 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by docket number USCG–
2019–0910 using Federal eRulemaking
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 proposed
rulemaking, call or email Mr. Doug
Blakemore, Eighth Coast Guard District
Bridge Administrator; telephone (504)
671–2128, email Douglas.A.Blakemore@
uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background, Purpose and Legal Basis
CSX Railroad has established a central
location to operate CSX drawbridges.
They have requested to relocate the
Bayou Sara bridge tender to their
centralized location in Mobile, AL. This
CSX swing bridge is located at Bayou
Sara, mile 0.1, Mobile County, near
Saraland, AL. It has a vertical clearance
of 5′ in the closed to vessel position.
The bridge operates according to 33 CFR
117.105. Bayou Sara is used primarily
by recreational vessels. The bridge
opens for vessels about 6 times per day
and vessels that do not need the bridge
to open may pass.
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This deviation will last for 60 days.
CSX will collect data on all bridge
openings to ensure that the remote
operations will not impact navigation.
CSX will immediately return the tender
to the bridge location if there are any
system failures or weather conditions
that will not allow the bridge tender to
operate the bridge from Mobile.
The Coast Guard will publish
information about this temporary
deviation in our Local and Broadcast
Notice to Mariners so that mariners are
informed of this operating change and
our request for comments on the change.
In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e),
the drawbridge must return to its regular
operating schedule immediately at the
end of the effective period of this
temporary deviation. This deviation
from the operating regulations is
authorized under 33 CFR 117.35.
II. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
We view public participation as
essential to effective rulemaking, and
will consider all comments and material
received during the comment period.
Your comment can help shape the
outcome of this rulemaking. If you
submit a comment, please include the
docket number for this rulemaking,
indicate the specific section of this
document to which each comment
applies, and provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation.
We encourage you to submit
comments through the Federal
eRulemaking 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.
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.
Documents mentioned in this NPRM
as being available in this docket and all
public comments, will be in our online
docket at https://www.regulations.gov
and can be viewed by following that
website’s instructions. Additionally, if
you go to the online docket and sign up
for email alerts, you will be notified
when comments are posted or a final
rule is published.
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Dated: January 7, 2020.
Douglas Allen Blakemore, Sr.,
Bridge Administrator, Eighth Coast Guard
District.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 201
[Docket No. 2017–7]
Modernizing Copyright Recordation
U.S. Copyright Office, Library
of Congress.
ACTION: Supplemental interim rule.
AGENCY:
The United States Copyright
Office is issuing a supplemental interim
rule amending its regulations governing
recordation of transfers of copyright
ownership, notices of termination, and
other documents pertaining to a
copyright. This rule supplements the
Office’s current interim recordation
regulations in anticipation of the
Office’s forthcoming pilot program
through which participating remitters
will be able to record certain types of
documents electronically online. The
supplemental interim rule and pilot
program are the next step in the
recordation modernization process,
which will lead to a full public release
of the Office’s electronic recordation
system in the future.
DATES: Effective February 24, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Regan A. Smith, General Counsel and
Associate Register of Copyrights, by
email at regans@copyright.gov, or Jason
E. Sloan, Assistant General Counsel, by
email at jslo@copyright.gov. Each can be
contacted by telephone by calling (202)
707–8350.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
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Under the Copyright Act of 1976, the
U.S. Copyright Office is responsible for
recording documents pertaining to
works under copyright, such as
assignments, licenses, and grants of
security interests.1 The Office is also
responsible for recording notices of
termination.2 As discussed in a notice of
1 17
U.S.C. 205.
‘‘notice of termination’’ is a notice that
terminates a grant to a third party of a copyright in
a work or any rights under a copyright. Only certain
grants may be terminated, and only in certain
circumstances. Termination is governed by three
separate provisions of the Copyright Act, with the
relevant one depending on a number of factors,
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proposed rulemaking published in the
Federal Register on May 18, 2017
(‘‘NPRM’’),3 the current recordation
process is a time-consuming and laborintensive paper-based one, requiring
remitters to submit their documents in
hard copy.
As previously detailed, the Office is
engaged in an effort to modernize the
recordation process by developing a
fully electronic, online system through
which remitters will be able to submit
their documents and all applicable
indexing information to the Office for
recordation. In conjunction with the
anticipated development effort, the
Office issued the NPRM to propose
updates to the Office’s regulations to
govern the submission of documents to
the Office for recordation once the new
electronic system is developed and
launched. The NPRM explained that
while the Office could not estimate
when the new system would be
completed, public comments were being
sought because the Office needed to
make a number of policy decisions
critical to the design of the to-bedeveloped system.4
In addition, the NPRM further stated
that while the proposed amendments
were designed with a new electronic
submission system in mind, at least
some of the proposed changes could be
implemented sooner, without the new
system. Thus, the Office noted that, to
the extent possible under the Office’s
current paper system, the Office
intended to adopt some aspects of the
proposed rule on an interim basis until
such time as the electronic system is
complete and a final rule is enacted.5
The Office adopted such regulations
pursuant to an interim rule published in
the Federal Register on November 13,
2017.6 For details about the changes
made by that interim rule, please
consult the Federal Register notice.
II. Pilot Program
Since adoption of the interim
regulations in late 2017, the Office,
through the Library of Congress’s Office
of the Chief Information Officer, has
been engaged in development efforts to
build the electronic recordation system
discussed in the NPRM. The first
iteration of that system is nearing
completion and is planned to be
released on a limited basis through a
pilot program, which the Office will
initiate through a separate
including when the grant was made, who executed
it, and when copyright was originally secured for
the work. See 17 U.S.C. 203, 304(c), 304(d).
3 82 FR 22771 (May 18, 2017).
4 Id. at 22771.
5 Id. at 22771–72.
6 82 FR 52213 (Nov. 13, 2017).
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announcement. The pilot release will be
made available to certain remitters
(‘‘pilot remitters’’) intended to be a
representative sample of the spectrum of
those who submit documents for
recordation. At launch, it is planned
that these pilot remitters will be able to
electronically submit to the Office for
recordation most types of transfers of
copyright ownership and other
documents pertaining to a copyright
under 17 U.S.C. 205. Notices of
termination, however, will not be part of
the pilot program when initially
launched. System development will be
ongoing throughout the pilot, and will
eventually lead to a full public release
of the Office’s electronic recordation
system. Some features may be released
into the pilot as they are developed,
while others may be held for or may not
be ready until the full public release.
Starting with a limited pilot release will
help the Office to work with users to
address feedback while development
continues.
III. Supplemental Interim Rule
The Office is issuing a supplemental
interim rule to establish the regulatory
groundwork for the pilot, in advance of
its commencement. The supplemental
interim rule makes no changes to the
Office’s recordation rules for
submissions made outside of the pilot
program. For pilot program
submissions, the supplemental interim
rule makes electronic submissions
permissible and provides that such
submissions are to be made in
accordance with special pilot program
rules that the Office will separately
establish and issue to pilot remitters.
This will allow the Office the flexibility
to be able to update and modify relevant
pilot rules, procedures, and instructions
as quickly as needed, without resorting
to further rulemaking.7 This flexibility
is necessary because development will
be ongoing throughout the pilot and the
Office may need to address
unanticipated issues that may arise. For
the same reasons, the supplemental
interim rule also specifies that the
special pilot program rules will
supersede any conflicting regulation,
rule, instruction, or guidance.
7 For similar reasons, the Office previously
adopted such an approach to its instructions for
preparing and submitting electronic title lists that
may be included with paper recordation
submissions. See 37 CFR 201.4(e)(3)(i) (‘‘The
electronic list must be prepared and submitted to
the Office in the manner specified by the Copyright
Office in instructions made available on its
website.’’); 82 FR at 52214 (‘‘This change will allow
the Office to develop more flexible instructions for
remitters that can be updated and modified as
needed without resorting to a rulemaking.’’).
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[FR Doc No: 2020-00292]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 117
[Docket No. USCG-2019-0910]
Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Bayou Sara, Saraland, AL
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of temporary deviation from regulations; request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the
operating schedule that governs the CSX Transportation Railroad swing
bridge across Bayou Sara, mile 0.1 near Saraland, Alabama. This
deviation is needed to collect and analyze information on vessel
traffic when the bridge tender is moved to a geographically remote
centralized control point located in Mobile, AL. The Coast Guard is
seeking comments from the public about the impact to vessel traffic
generated by this change.
DATES: This deviation is effective from 6 a.m. January 23, 2020 through
6 p.m. March 23, 2020.
Comments and related material must be received by the Coast Guard
on or before March 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-
2019-0910 using Federal eRulemaking 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
proposed rulemaking, call or email Mr. Doug Blakemore, Eighth Coast
Guard District Bridge Administrator; telephone (504) 671-2128, email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background, Purpose and Legal Basis
CSX Railroad has established a central location to operate CSX
drawbridges. They have requested to relocate the Bayou Sara bridge
tender to their centralized location in Mobile, AL. This CSX swing
bridge is located at Bayou Sara, mile 0.1, Mobile County, near
Saraland, AL. It has a vertical clearance of 5' in the closed to vessel
position. The bridge operates according to 33 CFR 117.105. Bayou Sara
is used primarily by recreational vessels. The bridge opens for vessels
about 6 times per day and vessels that do not need the bridge to open
may pass.
This deviation will last for 60 days. CSX will collect data on all
bridge openings to ensure that the remote operations will not impact
navigation. CSX will immediately return the tender to the bridge
location if there are any system failures or weather conditions that
will not allow the bridge tender to operate the bridge from Mobile.
The Coast Guard will publish information about this temporary
deviation in our Local and Broadcast Notice to Mariners so that
mariners are informed of this operating change and our request for
comments on the change.
In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e), the drawbridge must return to
its regular operating schedule immediately at the end of the effective
period of this temporary deviation. This deviation from the operating
regulations is authorized under 33 CFR 117.35.
II. Public Participation and Request for Comments
We view public participation as essential to effective rulemaking,
and will consider all comments and material received during the comment
period. Your comment can help shape the outcome of this rulemaking. If
you submit a comment, please include the docket number for this
rulemaking, indicate the specific section of this document to which
each comment applies, and provide a reason for each suggestion or
recommendation.
We encourage you to submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking
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.
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.
Documents mentioned in this NPRM as being available in this docket
and all public comments, will be in our online docket at https://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following that website's
instructions. Additionally, if you go to the online docket and sign up
for email alerts, you will be notified when comments are posted or a
final rule is published.
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Dated: January 7, 2020.
Douglas Allen Blakemore, Sr.,
Bridge Administrator, Eighth Coast Guard District.
[FR Doc. 2020-00292 Filed 1-22-20; 8:45 am]
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