Safety Zones; Annual Events Requiring Safety Zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan Zone-New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks
Federal Register, Volume 79 Issue 142 (Thursday, July 24, 2014)
Federal Register Volume 79, Number 142 (Thursday, July 24, 2014)
Rules and Regulations
Pages 42983-42984
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office www.gpo.gov
FR Doc No: 2014-17483
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
Docket No. USCG-2014-0646
Safety Zones; Annual Events Requiring Safety Zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan Zone--New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone on Lake Michigan in New Buffalo, MI for the New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks display. This zone will be enforced from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on August 9, 2014. This action is necessary and intended to ensure the safety of life on navigable waters during a fireworks display. During the aforementioned period, the Coast Guard will enforce restrictions upon, and control movement of, vessels in the safety zone. No person or vessel
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may enter the safety zone while it is being enforced without permission of the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan.
DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 165.929 will be enforced for safety zone (f)(13) in Table 165.929, from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on August 9, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this document, call or email MST1 Joseph McCollum, Prevention Department, Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, WI at (414) 747-7148, email joseph.p.mccollum@uscg.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks safety zone listed as item (f)(13) in Table 165.929 of 33 CFR 165.929. Section 165.929 lists many annual events requiring safety zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan zone. The New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks zone will encompass all waters of Lake Michigan and New Buffalo Harbor within the arc of a circle with an 800-foot radius from the fireworks launch site located in position 41deg48'09'' N, 086deg44'49'' W (NAD 83). This zone will be enforced from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on August 9, 2014.
All vessels must obtain permission from the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan, or the on-scene representative to enter, move within, or exit the safety zone. Requests must be made in advance and approved by the Captain of the Port before transits will be authorized. Approvals will be granted on a case by case basis. Vessels and persons granted permission to enter the safety zone must obey all lawful orders or directions of the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan or a designated representative.
This document is issued under authority of 33 CFR 165.929, Safety Zones; Annual events requiring safety zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan zone and 5 U.S.C. 552(a). In addition to this publication in the Federal Register, the Coast Guard will provide the maritime community with advance notification of this event via Broadcast Notice to Mariners or Local Notice to Mariners that the regulation is in effect. The Captain of the Port Lake Michigan or her on-scene representative may be contacted via Channel 16, VHF-FM.
Dated: July 8, 2014.
A.B. Cocanour,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Lake Michigan.
FR Doc. 2014-17483 Filed 7-23-14; 8:45 am
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