[Federal Register: October 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 210)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 61584-61585]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 165
[Docket No. USCG-2007-29354]
RIN 1625-AA87
Security Zone; Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, HI
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending the comment period for its notice
of proposed rulemaking published October 3, 2007, to create a security
zone in the waters of Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, and on the land of the
jetty south of Nawiliwili Park, including the jetty access road
commonly known as Jetty Road. The proposed security zone is intended to
enable the Coast Guard and its law enforcement partners to better
protect people, vessels, and facilities in and around Nawiliwili Harbor
in the face of non-compliant obstructers who have impeded, and threaten
to continue impeding, the safe passage of the Hawaii Superferry in
Nawiliwili Harbor. The proposed rule complements, but does not replace
or supersede, existing regulations that establish a moving 100-yard
security zone around large passenger vessels like the Hawaii
Superferry.
DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Coast Guard on or
before November 20, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments and related material, identified by
Coast Guard docket number USCG-2007-29354, in any of the three methods
listed below. To avoid duplication, please use only one of the
following methods:
(1) Mail: Lieutenant Sean Fahey, Coast Guard District 14 (dl), PJKK
Federal Building, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96850.
(2) Electronically: E-mail to Lieutenant Sean Fahey at
Sean.C.Fahey@uscg.mil using the
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subject line ``Comment--Kauai Security Zone.''
(3) Fax: (808) 541-2101.
All comments will be reviewed as they are received. Additionally,
all comments submitted will ultimately be available for viewing on the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Sean Fahey, U.S. Coast
Guard District 14 at (808) 541-2106.
Request for Additional Comments
On October 3, 2007, we published a notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM) entitled ``Security Zone; Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, Hawaii'' in
the Federal Register (72 FR 56308). The comment period for the NPRM was
originally set to expire on October 24, 2007. Although we received many
comments on the subject rule, a few people wishing to submit comments
expressed difficulty using the Federal eRulemaking Portal, one of the
four methods available to submit comments on the NPRM. Recently, the
Coast Guard migrated its online rulemaking docket from the Docket
Management System (DMS) to the Federal Docket Management System (FMS)
(72 FR 54315, Sept. 24, 2007), and this migration was accompanied by
transition difficulties and delays in comments being posted on FDMS. So
we will continue to accept comments on the propose rule until November
20, 2007. Comments may be submitted in one of the three methods listed
in the ADDRESSES section of this rule. Based on the comments we
receive, we may change the rule.
We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting
comments and related material. If you do so, please identify the docket
number for this rulemaking (USCG-2007-29354), indicate the specific
section of this document to which each comment applies, and give the
reason for each comment. We recommend that you include your name,
mailing address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in
the body of your document to ensure that you can be identified as the
submitter. This also allows us to contact you in the event further
information is needed or if there are questions. For example, if we
cannot read your submission due to technical difficulties and you
cannot be contacted, your submission may not be considered. Please
submit all comments and related material in an unbound format, no
larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying. If you would
like to know your comments reached us, please enclose a stamped, self-
addressed postcard or envelope. We will consider all comments and
material received during the comment period. We may change this
proposed rule in view of them.
Temporary Final Rule
Concurrent with this notice to extend the comment period, the Coast
Guard is also publishing a temporary final rule for a security zone in
Nawiliwili Harbor. That temporary final rule can be found elsewhere in
this issue of the Federal Register. The temporary final rule is being
issued on an emergency basis to ensure that there is a security zone in
place after the current security zone (72 FR 50877, September 5, 2007)
expires on October 31, 2007. That temporary final rule is of limited
duration--it will be in effect from November 1, 2007, through November
30, 2007--and is necessary to ensure the safety and security of water-
based and land-based obstructers, as well as the passengers and crew of
the Superferry, should the Superferry transit through Nawiliwili
Harbor.
Public Meeting
During this extended comment period, you may also submit a request
for a public meeting. Based on the comments we receive, we may choose
to hold a public meeting. You may submit a request for a public meeting
to Lieutenant Sean Fahey at U.S. Coast Guard District 14, PJKK Federal
Building, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96850, explaining why
one would be beneficial. The deadline for submitting requests is
November 20, 2007.
If we determine that a public meeting would aid this rulemaking, we
will hold one at a time and place announced by a later notice in the
Federal Register.
Dated: October 24, 2007.
Sally Brice-O'Hara,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Fourteenth Coast Guard
District.
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