[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 210 (Wednesday, October 31, 2007)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 61584-61585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-5412]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2007-29354]
RIN 1625-AA87


Security Zone; Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, HI

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending the comment period for its notice 
of proposed rulemaking published October 3, 2007, to create a security 
zone in the waters of Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, and on the land of the 
jetty south of Nawiliwili Park, including the jetty access road 
commonly known as Jetty Road. The proposed security zone is intended to 
enable the Coast Guard and its law enforcement partners to better 
protect people, vessels, and facilities in and around Nawiliwili Harbor 
in the face of non-compliant obstructers who have impeded, and threaten 
to continue impeding, the safe passage of the Hawaii Superferry in 
Nawiliwili Harbor. The proposed rule complements, but does not replace 
or supersede, existing regulations that establish a moving 100-yard 
security zone around large passenger vessels like the Hawaii 
Superferry.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Coast Guard on or 
before November 20, 2007.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments and related material, identified by 
Coast Guard docket number USCG-2007-29354, in any of the three methods 
listed below. To avoid duplication, please use only one of the 
following methods:
    (1) Mail: Lieutenant Sean Fahey, Coast Guard District 14 (dl), PJKK 
Federal Building, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96850.
    (2) Electronically: E-mail to Lieutenant Sean Fahey at 
[email protected] using the

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subject line ``Comment--Kauai Security Zone.''
    (3) Fax: (808) 541-2101.
    All comments will be reviewed as they are received. Additionally, 
all comments submitted will ultimately be available for viewing on the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Sean Fahey, U.S. Coast 
Guard District 14 at (808) 541-2106.

Request for Additional Comments

    On October 3, 2007, we published a notice of proposed rulemaking 
(NPRM) entitled ``Security Zone; Nawiliwili Harbor, Kauai, Hawaii'' in 
the Federal Register (72 FR 56308). The comment period for the NPRM was 
originally set to expire on October 24, 2007. Although we received many 
comments on the subject rule, a few people wishing to submit comments 
expressed difficulty using the Federal eRulemaking Portal, one of the 
four methods available to submit comments on the NPRM. Recently, the 
Coast Guard migrated its online rulemaking docket from the Docket 
Management System (DMS) to the Federal Docket Management System (FMS) 
(72 FR 54315, Sept. 24, 2007), and this migration was accompanied by 
transition difficulties and delays in comments being posted on FDMS. So 
we will continue to accept comments on the propose rule until November 
20, 2007. Comments may be submitted in one of the three methods listed 
in the ADDRESSES section of this rule. Based on the comments we 
receive, we may change the rule.
    We encourage you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting 
comments and related material. If you do so, please identify the docket 
number for this rulemaking (USCG-2007-29354), indicate the specific 
section of this document to which each comment applies, and give the 
reason for each comment. We recommend that you include your name, 
mailing address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in 
the body of your document to ensure that you can be identified as the 
submitter. This also allows us to contact you in the event further 
information is needed or if there are questions. For example, if we 
cannot read your submission due to technical difficulties and you 
cannot be contacted, your submission may not be considered. Please 
submit all comments and related material in an unbound format, no 
larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying. If you would 
like to know your comments reached us, 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.

Temporary Final Rule

    Concurrent with this notice to extend the comment period, the Coast 
Guard is also publishing a temporary final rule for a security zone in 
Nawiliwili Harbor. That temporary final rule can be found elsewhere in 
this issue of the Federal Register. The temporary final rule is being 
issued on an emergency basis to ensure that there is a security zone in 
place after the current security zone (72 FR 50877, September 5, 2007) 
expires on October 31, 2007. That temporary final rule is of limited 
duration--it will be in effect from November 1, 2007, through November 
30, 2007--and is necessary to ensure the safety and security of water-
based and land-based obstructers, as well as the passengers and crew of 
the Superferry, should the Superferry transit through Nawiliwili 
Harbor.

Public Meeting

    During this extended comment period, you may also submit a request 
for a public meeting. Based on the comments we receive, we may choose 
to hold a public meeting. You may submit a request for a public meeting 
to Lieutenant Sean Fahey at U.S. Coast Guard District 14, PJKK Federal 
Building, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96850, explaining why 
one would be beneficial. The deadline for submitting requests is 
November 20, 2007.
    If we determine that a public meeting would aid this rulemaking, we 
will hold one at a time and place announced by a later notice in the 
Federal Register.

    Dated: October 24, 2007.
Sally Brice-O'Hara,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Fourteenth Coast Guard 
District.
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