[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 8, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 33415-33416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11398]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

46 CFR Part 401

[USCG-2002-11288]
RIN 1625-AA38 (Formerly RIN 2115-AG30)


Rates for Pilotage on the Great Lakes

AGENCY: Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending the comment period on the interim 
rule on rates for pilotage on the Great Lakes published in the Federal 
Register on March 10, 2005, for 30 days. This will extend the comment 
period to July 8, 2005. We are extending the comment period to allow 
the public more time to comment on this subject.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before July 8, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket 
number USCG-2002-11288 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, 
call Paul Wasserman, Director, Great Lakes Pilotage, Office of 
Waterways Management Plans and Policy (G-MWP), U.S. Coast Guard, 
telephone 202-267-2856 or e-mail him at [email protected]. If 
you

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have questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call 
Andrea M. Jenkins, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-
366-0271.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for Comments

    We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking 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 the 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 rulemaking (USCG-
2002-11288), 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 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. We will consider all comments and 
material received during the comment period. We may change this 
proposed rule in view of them.
    Viewing comments and documents: To view comments, as well as 
documents mentioned in this preamble as being available 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

    On March 10, 2005, the Coast Guard published an interim rule in the 
Federal Register (70 FR 12082) to update the rates for pilotage on the 
Great Lakes.
    In comments to the docket, the Coast Guard has received three 
requests from the public to extend the comment period by 30 days.
    We have decided to grant this request for an extension of the 
comment period from June 8, 2005 to July 8, 2005. This will allow the 
Coast Guard to collect and review all comments before issuing a final 
rule.

    Dated: June 2, 2005.
T.H. Gilmour,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, 
Security and Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 05-11398 Filed 6-7-05; 8:45 am]
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