[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 16, 2002)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 18527-18528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9109]


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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; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announced in the Federal Register 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. We understand that government agencies as 
well as private entities did not receive notification of the PARS until 
late in the original comment period, which ended March 19, 2002. 
Therefore, we're reopening the comment period through May 19, 2002, to 
allow more time for public comment.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before May 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, 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

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submit them by mail or delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no 
larger than 81/2 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). The purpose of the study is 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.
    The goal of the study is to help reduce the risk of marine 
casualties and increase the efficiency of management of vessel traffic 
in the study area. The recommendations of the study may lead to future 
rulemaking or to appropriate international agreements.

    Dated: April 9, 2002.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security and Environmental 
Protection.
[FR Doc. 02-9109 Filed 4-15-02; 8:45 am]
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