[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26824-26825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12114]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

46 CFR Parts 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145 and 146

[USCG 2001-9173]
RIN 2115-AF75


Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Units in the Gulf of 
Mexico

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION:  Reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is reopening the period for public comment on 
Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Units in the Gulf of 
Mexico. Letters received to the docket requested more time to collect 
data and to develop comments.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 16, 2001.

ADDRESSES: You may submit your written comments and related material by 
any one of the following methods:
    (1) By mail to the Docket Management Facility, [USCG-2001-9173], 
U.S. Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (2) By hand to room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif 
Building, 400

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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.
    (3) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
    (4) Electronically through the Web Site for the Docket Management 
Facility at http://dms.dot.gov.
    The Docket Management Facility maintains the public docket for this 
notice. Comments and documents, as indicated in this notice, will 
become part of this docket and will be available for inspection or 
copying at room PL-401 on the Plaza Level of the Nassif Building at the 
same address between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays. You may electronically access the public docket for 
this notice on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the reopening of 
the comment period contact Lieutenant Commander Russell Proctor, Vessel 
Compliance Division (G-MOC-2), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 
Second Street, SW., Washington DC 20590, telephone 202-267-0499. For 
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms. 
Dorothy Beard, Chief of Dockets, Department of Transportation, 
telephone 202-366-5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    The Coast Guard encourages interested persons to participate in the 
request for comments period by submitting written data, views, or 
arguments.
    To do so, please include your name and address, identify this 
docket [USCG 2001-9173], the specific issue for comment, and give the 
reason for each comment. You may submit your written comments and 
material by mail, hand, fax, or electronic means to the Docket 
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please do not 
submit the same comment or material by more than one means. Do not 
submit comments that have already been made part of the docket. If you 
submit them by mail or hand, 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 they were 
received, enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard or envelope. The 
Coast Guard will consider all comments and material received during the 
comment period. All comments may be viewed at http://dms.got.gov.

Background

    On March 27, 2001, the Coast Guard published a Notice of meeting; 
request for comments in the Federal Register (66 FR 16643). We 
requested comments on Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading 
Units in the Gulf of Mexico. A meeting was held on May 3, 2001, in 
Houston, Texas.

Purpose

    Comments to the docket requested more time to collect data and to 
develop comments. Based on these requests and on the small number of 
comments received so far, the Coast Guard is reopening the comment 
period.

    Dated: May 4, 2001.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Acting Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety and Environmental 
Protection.
[FR Doc. 01-12114 Filed 5-14-01; 8:45 am]
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