[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 63979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24454]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Chapter I

[USCG-2003-15771]


Exclusion Zones for Marine LNG Spills

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks public comments on a petition for 
rulemaking from the City of Fall River, Massachusetts. The petition 
requests regulations be promulgated that would establish thermal and 
vapor dispersion exclusion zones for marine spills of liquefied natural 
gas similar to those established by the Secretary of Transportation for 
spills of LNG on land.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the docket management 
facility on or before February 1, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket 
number (USCG-2003-15771) to the Docket Management Facility at the U.S. 
Department of Transportation. To avoid duplication, please use only one 
of the following methods:
    (1) Web site: http://dms.dot.gov.
    (2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (3) Fax: 202-493-2251.
    (4) Delivery: 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.
    (5) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
please call Commander John Cushing at 202-267-1043, or e-mail 
[email protected]. If you have questions on viewing or submitting 
material to the docket, please call Ms. Andrea M. Jenkins, Program 
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-0271.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Public Participation and Request for Comments

    We encourage you to respond to this notice by submitting comments 
and related materials. All comments received will be posted, without 
change, to http://dms.dot.gov and will include any personal information 
you have provided. We have an agreement with the Department of 
Transportation (DOT) to use their Docket Management Facility. Please 
see DOT's ``Privacy Act'' paragraph below.
    Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include your 
name and address, identify the docket number for this notice (USCG-
2003-15771), and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your 
comments and material by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery 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 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.
    Viewing comments and documents: To view comments or other material 
in the docket, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time and conduct a 
simple search using the docket number. You may also visit the Docket 
Management Facility in 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.
    Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments 
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf 
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the 
Department of Transportation's Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit 
http://dms.dot.gov.
    Background and purpose. The City of Fall River, Massachusetts is 
petitioning the Coast Guard to develop regulations relating to marine 
transportation of liquid natural gas (LNG). Specifically, the City 
requests promulgation of regulations to apply the same thermal and 
vapor dispersion exclusion zone requirements established by the 
Department of Transportation for LNG spills on land (49 CFR Parts 
193.2057 and 193.2059), to LNG spills on water. The City's petition 
included expanded discussion on this issue and may be read in its 
entirety in the docket. The public is invited to review the material 
contained in the docket and submit relevant comments. The Coast Guard 
will consider the City's petition, any comments received from the 
public, and other information to determine whether or not to initiate 
the requested rulemaking.

    Dated: October 22, 2004.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental 
Protection, U.S. Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 04-24454 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]
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