[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2004)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 52830-52831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19731]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 150

[USCG-1998-3884]
RIN 1625-AA20 (formerly RIN 2115-AF63)


Deepwater Ports

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects the temporary interim rule with request 
for comments (FR Doc. 03-32204) published in the Federal Register of 
January 6, 2004 (69 FR 724). The temporary interim rule contained 
provisions relating to deepwater ports that may remain in effect until 
October 2006.

DATES: Effective on August 30, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this 
correction, call Lieutenant Commander Kevin Tone, Vessel and Facility 
Operating Standards Division (G-MSO-2), Coast Guard, telephone 202-267-
0226.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The temporary interim rule that is the subject of this correction 
updated Coast Guard regulations governing the license process, the 
design, construction, and equipment, and the operation of deepwater 
ports, which are used for the transportation, storage, and further 
handling of oil or natural gas. The temporary interim rule 
inadvertently omitted provisions describing the location of the safety 
zone for the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), as well as areas to be 
avoided and the anchorage area within the safety zone. Those provisions 
were first promulgated in 1980 and last updated in 1994; prior to the 
temporary interim rule they appeared in Annex A to Appendix A, part 150 
of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Coast Guard intended no 
substantive change in the LOOP safety zone requirements, but for 
stylistic consistency and to clarify their regulatory nature we did 
intend to set them out in a regulatory section rather than in an annex.

Need for Correction

    As published, the temporary interim rule omits text. This omission 
may prove to be misleading and needs to be corrected.

List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 150

    Harbors, Marine safety, Navigation (water), Occupational safety and 
health, Oil pollution, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

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Accordingly, 33 CFR part 150 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendment:

PART 150--DEEPWATER PORTS: OPERATIONS

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1. The authority citation for part 150 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1231, 1321(j)(1)(C), (j)(5), (j)(6), 
(m)(2); 33 U.S.C. 1509(a); E.O. 12777, sec. 2; E.O. 13286, sec. 34, 
68 FR 10619; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 
0170.1(70), (73), (75), (80).


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2. Add Sec.  150.940 to read as follows:


Sec.  150.940  Safety zones for specific deepwater ports.

    (a) Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP):
    (1) The location of the safety zone for LOOP is as described in 
Table 150.940(A):

         Table 150.940(A).--Safety Zone for Loop, Gulf of Mexico
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               Latitude N                          Longitude W
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(i) Starting at:
    28[deg]55'23''.....................  90[deg]00'37''
(ii) A rhumb line to:
    28[deg]53'50''.....................  90[deg]04'07''
(iii) Then an arc with a 4,465 meter
 (4,883 yard) radius centered at the
 port's pumping platform complex:
    28[deg]53'06''.....................  90[deg]01'30''
(iv) To a point:
    28[deg]51'07''.....................  90[deg]03'06''
(v) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]50'09''.....................  90[deg]02'24''
(vi) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]49'05''.....................  89[deg]55'54''
(vii) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]48'36''.....................  89[deg]55'00''
(viii) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]52'04''.....................  89[deg]52'42''
(ix) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]53'10''.....................  89[deg]53'42''
(x) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]54'52''.....................  89[deg]57'00''
(xi) Then a rhumb line to:
    28[deg]54'52''.....................  89[deg]59'36''
(xii) Then an arc with a 4,465 meter
 (4,883 yard) radius centered again at
 the port's pumping platform complex;
(xiii) To the point of starting:
    28[deg]55'23''.....................  90[deg]00'37''
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    (2) The areas to be avoided within the safety zone are:
    (i) The area encompassed within a circle having a 600 meter radius 
around the port's pumping platform complex and centered at:

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               Latitude N                           Longitude W
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28[deg]53'06''.........................  90[deg]-1'30''
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    (ii) The six areas encompassed within a circle having a 500 meter 
radius around each single point mooring (SPM) at the port and centered 
at:

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               Latitude N                          Longitude W
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28[deg]54'12''.........................  90[deg]00'37''
28[deg]53'16''.........................  89[deg]59'59''
28[deg]52'15''.........................  90[deg]00'19''
28[deg]51'45''.........................  90[deg]01'25''
28[deg]52'08''.........................  90[deg]02'33''
28[deg]53'07''.........................  90[deg]03'02''
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    (3) The anchorage area within the safety zone is an area enclosed 
by the rhumb lines joining points at:

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               Latitude N                          Longitude W
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28[deg]52'21''.........................  89[deg]57'47''
28[deg]54'05''.........................  89[deg]56'38''
28[deg]52'04''.........................  89[deg]52'42''
28[deg]50'20''.........................  89[deg]53'51''
28[deg]52'21''.........................  89[deg]57'47''
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    Dated: August 20, 2004.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental 
Protection, Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 04-19731 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]
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