[Federal Register: November 3, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 212)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 63979]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Chapter I
[USCG-2003-15771]
Exclusion Zones for Marine LNG Spills
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks public comments on a petition for
rulemaking from the City of Fall River, Massachusetts. The petition
requests regulations be promulgated that would establish thermal and
vapor dispersion exclusion zones for marine spills of liquefied natural
gas similar to those established by the Secretary of Transportation for
spills of LNG on land.
DATES: Comments and related material must reach the docket management
facility on or before February 1, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket
number (USCG-2003-15771) to the Docket Management Facility at the U.S.
Department of Transportation. To avoid duplication, please use only one
of the following methods:
(1) Web site: http://dms.dot.gov.
(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
(3) Fax: 202-493-2251.
(4) Delivery: Room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
(5) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
please call Commander John Cushing at 202-267-1043, or e-mail
JCushing@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or submitting
material to the docket, please call Ms. Andrea M. Jenkins, Program
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-0271.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation and Request for Comments
We encourage you to respond to this notice by submitting comments
and related materials. All comments received will be posted, without
change, to http://dms.dot.gov and will include any personal information
you have provided. We have an agreement with the Department of
Transportation (DOT) to use their Docket Management Facility. Please
see DOT's ``Privacy Act'' paragraph below.
Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include your
name and address, identify the docket number for this notice (USCG-
2003-15771), and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your
comments and material by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery to
the Docket Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but
please submit your comments and material by only one means. If you
submit them by mail or delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no
larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic
filing. If you submit them by mail and would like to know that they
reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard
or envelope.
Viewing comments and documents: To view comments or other material
in the docket, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time and conduct a
simple search using the docket number. You may also visit the Docket
Management Facility in room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the
Department of Transportation's Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit
http://dms.dot.gov.
Background and purpose. The City of Fall River, Massachusetts is
petitioning the Coast Guard to develop regulations relating to marine
transportation of liquid natural gas (LNG). Specifically, the City
requests promulgation of regulations to apply the same thermal and
vapor dispersion exclusion zone requirements established by the
Department of Transportation for LNG spills on land (49 CFR Parts
193.2057 and 193.2059), to LNG spills on water. The City's petition
included expanded discussion on this issue and may be read in its
entirety in the docket. The public is invited to review the material
contained in the docket and submit relevant comments. The Coast Guard
will consider the City's petition, any comments received from the
public, and other information to determine whether or not to initiate
the requested rulemaking.
Dated: October 22, 2004.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental
Protection, U.S. Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 04-24454 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]
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