[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 15967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8523]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Coast Guard
[CGD 97-003]


Additional Hazards Study

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Additional hazards study; Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending the comment period on the 
Additional Hazards Study in order to provide more time for collection 
of information for the expert panel which will consider the hazards to 
marine transportation in and around Puget Sound.

DATES: Comments must reach the Coast Guard on or before April 4, 1997.

ADDRESSES: You may mail comments to the Executive Secretary, Marine 
Safety Council (G-LRA-2/3406) [CGD 97-003], U.S. Coast Guard 
Headquarters, 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC 20593-001, or may 
deliver them to room 3406 at the same address between 9:30 a.m. and 2 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone 
number is (202) 267-1477.
    The Executive Secretary maintains the public docket for this 
project. Comments, and documents as indicated in this notice, will 
become part of this docket and will be available for inspection or 
copying at room 3406, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, between 9:30 a.m. 
and 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LT Duane Boniface, Human Element and 
Ship Design Division (G-MSE-1), telephone 202-267-0178, fax 202-267-
4816, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    The Coast Guard encourages interested persons to submit written 
data, views, or arguments, concerning the subject matter of this 
notice. Persons submitting comments should include their names and 
addresses, identify this docket (CGD 97-003), and give the reason for 
each comment, providing specific examples whenever possible. Please 
submit two copies of all comments and attachments in an unbound format, 
no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic 
filing. Persons wanting acknowledgment of receipt of comments should 
enclose stamped, self-addressed postcards or envelopes.

Background and Purpose

    On February 18, 1997, the Coast Guard published a notice of 
initiation of the Additional Hazards Study and request for comments in 
the Federal Register (62 FR 7292). This notice extends the comment 
period. The Additional Hazards Study will use information gathered at 
two public workshops held in Seattle, Washington on March 6, 1997, and 
collected from other sources which includes the public comments to the 
docket. During the course of the public workshops, several requests 
were made to extend the open period of the public docket to allow 
workshop participants to submit relevant material to the docket. The 
information developed during the workshops, along the information 
submitted to the docket and derived from other sources, will be used by 
an expert panel. The panel will use the information to identify and 
rank, by level of risk, the hazards related to a major spill of cargo 
or fuel oil by commercial vessels transiting the study area. The expert 
panel will also identify potential measures to decrease the risks.
    A brief summary of the March 6, 1997 workshops, which includes 
potential hazards, potential additional measures, and attendees, is 
available by contacting the person listed above in FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.

    Dated: March 27, 1997.
Edward L. Ziff,
Director for Resources Management.
[FR Doc. 97-8523 Filed 4-2-97; 8:45 am]
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