[Federal Register: March 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 46)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 11912-11913]
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-2004-19615]
Exclusion Zones for Marine LNG Spills
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Request for comments; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: At the request of the Attorney General of Rhode Island, the
Coast Guard is reopening the public comment period on a petition from
the City of Fall River, Massachusetts. Fall River?s petition asks the
Coast Guard to promulgate regulations establishing thermal and vapor
dispersion exclusion zones for marine spills of liquefied natural gas,
similar to Department of Transportation regulations for such spills on
land. The Attorney General of Rhode Island asked that we reopen the
comment period for an additional sixty days, to allow his office to
review a threat analysis being prepared for its consideration.
DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management
Facility on or before May 9, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket
number USCG-2004-19615 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 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, call Andrea M. Jenkins, Program Manager, Docket
Operations, telephone 202-366-0271.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Participation and Request for Comments
We encourage you to submit comments and related material on the
petition for rulemaking. 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-
2004-19615), 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. We will consider all comments and material received during
the comment period.
Viewing the comments: To view the comments, 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
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April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.
Background and purpose: As we stated in the original notice and
request for public comments (69 FR 63979, Nov. 3, 2004), the City of
Fall River, Massachusetts, has petitioned the Coast Guard to promulgate
regulations establishing thermal and vapor dispersion exclusion zone
requirements for liquefied natural gas (LNG) spills on water. The City
asks that these regulations be similar to Department of Transportation
regulations for LNG spills on land, contained in 49 CFR 193.2057 and
193.2059. In our original notice, we provided a public comment period
that ended February 1, 2005. At the end of that comment period, we
received a letter from the Attorney General of Rhode Island that read
in part: ``I wish to emphasize that my office is waiting for the
completion of a Threat Analysis. I am formally requesting that the
public comment period in this docket remain open for an additional
sixty (60) days to allow for consideration of [that] report.'' In light
of this request, the Coast Guard is providing an additional sixty-day
comment period. 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: March 2, 2005.
Howard L. Hime,
Acting Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security, and
Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast Guard.
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