[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 39 (Wednesday, February 27, 2002)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 8918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4632]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 167

[USCG-2001-11201]


Port Access Routes Study; Along the Sea Coast and in the 
Approaches to the Cape Fear River and Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Study; correction.

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SUMMARY: On January 18, 2002 the Coast Guard announced in a Federal 
Register notice of study and request for comments that we were 
conducting a Port Access Routes Study (PARS) to evaluate the need for 
vessel routing or other vessel traffic management measures along the 
sea coast of North Carolina and in the approaches to the Cape Fear 
River and Beaufort Inlet. In the Background and Purpose section of the 
preamble to the notice, we listed an incorrect expected completion date 
for the PARS as January 31, 2002. The purpose of this correction is to 
make clear that the comment period will continue until March 19, 2002, 
and that the PARS will be completed after a review and analysis of all 
comments and data collected.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before March 19, 2002.

ADDRESSES: To make sure that your comments and related material are not 
entered more than once in the docket, please submit them by only one of 
the following means:
    (1) By mail to the Docket Management Facility (USCG-2001-11201), 
U.S. Department of Transportation, room 
PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (2) By delivery to 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.
    (3) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
    (4) Electronically through the Web Site for the Docket Management 
System at http://dms.dot.gov.
    The Docket Management Facility maintains the public docket for this 
document. Comments and material received from the public, as well as 
documents mentioned in this preamble as being available in the docket, 
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, 400 
Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays. You may also find this docket 
on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice 
of study, call Tom Flynn, Project Officer, Aids to Navigation and 
Waterways Management Branch, Fifth Coast Guard District, telephone 757-
398-6229, 
e-mail [email protected]; or George Detweiler, Office of Vessel 
Traffic Management, Coast Guard, telephone 202-267-0574, e-mail 
[email protected]. If you have questions on viewing or 
submitting material to the docket, call Dorothy Beard, Chief, Dockets, 
Department of Transportation, telephone 202-366-5149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    We encourage you to participate in this study by submitting 
comments and related material. If you do so, please include your name 
and address, identify the docket number for this notice of study (USCG-
2001-11201), indicate the specific section of this document to which 
each comment applies, and give the reason for each comment. You may 
submit your comments and material by mail, hand delivery, fax, or 
electronic means 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 hand 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.

Public Meeting

    We do not now plan to hold a public meeting. But you may submit a 
request for one to the Docket Management Facility at the address under 
ADDRESSES explaining why one would be beneficial. If we determine that 
one would aid this study, we will hold one at a time and place 
announced by a later notice in the Federal Register.

Background and Purpose

    On January 18, 2002, the Coast Guard published a notice in the 
Federal Register entitled ``Port Access Routes Study; Along the Sea 
Coast and in the Approaches to the Cape Fear River and Beaufort Inlet, 
North Carolina'' (67 FR 2616). In the preamble to the notice we 
indicated that the study would begin immediately and that we expected 
to complete the study by January 31, 2002. This incorrect study 
completion date was based on an earlier projected publishing date of 
the notice announcing the start of the Port Access Routes Study.

Need for Correction

    The study will not be completed before the end of the comment 
period, which is March 19, 2002. We listed an earlier estimated 
completion date in the January 18, 2002, notice. The removal of this 
date is needed to accurately reflect that the study has not yet been 
completed and that the comment period will remain open until March 19, 
2002.

Correction of Publication

    In rule FR Doc. 02-1371 published on January 18, 2002, make the 
following correction: On page 2618, in the first column, starting on 
line 25, remove the phrase ``and we anticipate the study will be 
completed by January 31, 2002''.

    Dated: February 19, 2002.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection.
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