[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 94 (Monday, May 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 29756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10006]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2022-0251]


Pacific Coast Port Access Route Study; Notice of Availability and 
Request for Comments

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces the availability, online, of an 
information center for the public to review information, materials, and 
the announcement of upcoming public engagements related to the ongoing 
Pacific Coast Port Access Route Study (PAC-PARS), which is examining 
existing shipping routes and waterway uses, and, to the extent 
practicable, reconciling the paramount right of navigation within 
designated port access routes with other waterway uses.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this document 
call or email LCDR Sara Conrad, Coast Guard Pacific Area (PAC-544); 
telephone (510) 437-3813, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Purpose

    On July 29, 2021, the Coast Guard announced a Port Access Route 
Study (PARS) that will cover the Pacific Coast from the Washington/
Canada border to the California/Mexico border. The Coast Guard is 
conducting this PARS to evaluate safe access routes for the movement of 
vessel traffic proceeding to or from ports or places along the western 
seaboard of the United States and to determine whether a Shipping 
Safety Fairway (``Fairway'') and/or routing measures should be 
established, adjusted or modified. The PARS will evaluate the continued 
applicability of, and the need for modifications to, current vessel 
routing measures. The data gathered during this Pacific Coast PARS 
(PAC-PARS) may result in the recommendation for the establishment of 
one or more new vessel routing measures, modification of existing 
routing measures, or disestablishment of existing routing measures off 
the Pacific Coast along Washington, Oregon, and California.
    In order to keep the public informed on the PARS as the study 
proceeds, the Coast Guard Pacific Area has set up an online information 
center that can be found here: https://homeport.uscg.mil/Lists/Content/DispForm.aspx?ID=77149&Source=/Lists/Content/DispForm.aspx?ID=77149.
    This notice is issued under authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).

    Dated: April 28, 2022.
K.B. Reed,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief, PACAREA Preparedness Division (PAC-
5).
[FR Doc. 2022-10006 Filed 5-13-22; 8:45 am]
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