[Federal Register: August 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 150)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
[USCG-2000-7833]
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Vessel and
Facility Response Plans for Oil: 2003 Removal Equipment Requirements
and Alternative Technology Revisions; Reopening Comment Period
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments; reopening the
comment period.
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SUMMARY: In response to public request, the Coast Guard is reopening
the public comment period on the Draft Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (DPEIS) for the rulemaking on Vessel and Facility
Response Plans for Oil; 2003 Removal Equipment Requirements and
Alternative Technology Revisions published on June 1, 2005 (70 FR
31487). The DPEIS
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addresses the increase of the oil removal capacity (caps) requirements
for tank vessels and marine transportation-related (MTR) facilities and
added requirements for new response technologies. Reopening of the
comment period gives the public more time to submit comments and
recommendations on the issues raised in the DPEIS.
DATES: Comments must reach the Docket Management Facility on or before
September 6, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket
number USCG-2000-7833 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
call Bradley McKitrick, Coast Guard, telephone (202) 267-0995, or e-
mail bmckitrick@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have questions on viewing or
submitting material to the docket, call Andrea M. Jenkins, Program
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone (202) 366-0271.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
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 the 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-
2000-7833) and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your
comments by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery to the Docket
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit
your comments 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. We will
consider all comments received during the comment period.
Viewing comments and documents: To view comments, go to http://dms.dot.gov
at any time, click on ``Simple Search,'' enter the last
five digits of the docket number for this rulemaking, and click on
``Search.'' 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
We are requesting your comments on environmental concerns you may
have related to the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
(DPEIS) for the rulemaking on Vessel and Facility Response Plans for
Oil; 2003 Removal Equipment Requirements and Alternative Technology
Revisions published on June 1, 2005 (70 FR 31487). We will publish
comments received during the DPEIS review period in the final PEIS. We
will publish a notice of availability of the final PEIS in the Federal
Register. Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted, as
they will be incorporated into the public record as part of this
reopened comment period, and will be fully considered.
Dated: August 2, 2005.
R. Petow,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director of Standards, Marine Safety,
Security, and Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast Guard.
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