Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 196 / Thursday, October 9, 2014 / Proposed Rules 61041 

mail payments and authorized methods 

of payment. 

■ 5. Revise § 5.50 to read as follows: 

§ 5.50 Fee revisions. 

The hourly rate will remain in effect 

for at least one year and be subject to 

revision at least once every three years. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24130 Filed 10–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

30 CFR Parts 550, 551, 556, 581, 582 

and 585 

[Docket ID: BOEM–2013–0058; 

MMAA104000] 

RIN 1010–AD83 

Risk Management, Financial 

Assurance and Loss Prevention 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking—Extension of Public 

Comment Period. 

SUMMARY: BOEM has recognized the 

need to develop a comprehensive 

program to assist in identifying, 

prioritizing, and managing the risks 

associated with industry activities on 

the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). 

BOEM intends to design and implement 

a more robust and comprehensive risk 

management, financial assurance and 

loss prevention program to address the 

complex issues and cost differences 

associated with offshore operations. As 

part of its overall effort to establish this 

program and associated changes to 

regulations, BOEM is seeking 

stakeholder comments regarding various 

risk management and monitoring 

activities pertaining to financial risks to 

taxpayers that may result from activities 

on the OCS. 

BOEM currently requires lessees to 

provide performance bonds and/or one 

of various alternative forms of financial 

assurance to ensure compliance with 

the terms and conditions of leases, 

Rights-of-Use and Easements and 

Pipeline Rights-of-Way. BOEM is 

seeking comments on who is best suited 

to mitigate risks and whether other 

forms of financial assurance should be 

used, as well as whether, or to what 

extent, the current forms of financial 

assurance are adequate and appropriate. 

BOEM has received comments to its 

Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (ANPR) indicating that the 

number of issues being addressed and 

the complexity of the topics being 

considered would justify a longer 

comment period. Various groups have 

also requested that additional time be 

provided to review and analyze the 

ANPR. For these reasons, BOEM has 

agreed to extend the comment period by 

an additional 30 days. The new 

comment period will elapse 90 days 

from August 19, 2014, the date of the 

original of publication of the ANPR. 

DATES: BOEM published the ANPR on 

August 19, 2014 (79 FR 49027) with a 

sixty day comment period. With this 

extension, comments must be received 

by November 17, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the rulemaking by any of the 

following methods. Please use the 

Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) 

1010–AD83 as an identifier in your 

submission. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry 

entitled, ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter 

BOEM–2013–0058, then click search. 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments and view supporting and 

related materials available for this 

rulemaking. BOEM will post all 

comments received during the comment 

period. 

• Mail or hand-carry comments to the 

Department of the Interior; Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management; Attention: 

Terry Scholten at terry.scholten@

boem.gov (504–810–2078) or Donna 

Dixon at Donna.Dixon@boem.gov (504– 

731–1527), or by mail at 1201 Elmwood 

Park Boulvard, GM364D, New Orleans, 

LA 70123. For issues related to the 

rulemaking process or timetable, contact 

Peter Meffert at peter.meffert@boem.gov 

(703–787–1610), or by mail at 381 Elden 

Street, Herndon, VA 20170. Please 

reference ‘‘Risk Management, Financial 

Assurance and Loss Prevention.’’ 

• In your comments include your 

name and return address so that we may 

contact you if we have questions 

regarding your submission. 

Public Availability of Comments: 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the risk 

management, financial assurance or loss 

prevention aspects of this ANPR should 

be directed to Terry Scholten or Donna 

Dixon, using the contact information 

listed above. 

Dated: September 30, 2014. 

Janice M. Schneider, 

Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24165 Filed 10–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 117 

[Docket No. USCG–2014–0281] 

RIN 1625–AA09 

Drawbridge Operation Regulations; 

Oceanport Creek, Oceanport, NJ 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is 

withdrawing its notice of proposed 

rulemaking concerning the New Jersey 

Transit Rail Operations (NJTRO) Bridge 

across Oceanport Creek at mile 8.4, at 

Oceanport, New Jersey. The bridge 

owner submitted a request to require a 

four-hour advance notice for bridge 

openings year-round based upon 

infrequent requests to open the draw 

over the last three years. 

The Coast Guard is withdrawing this 

notice of proposed rulemaking because 

the data supporting the bridge owner’s 

request was based upon the past three 

years of bridge openings; however, we 

received comments in response to our 

notice of proposed rulemaking that 

advised us that the Fort Monmouth 

Marina and Restaurant, located 

upstream from the bridge, was closed 

during the three year time period when 

the bridge opening data was collected. 

Subsequently, marina and restaurant 

has re-opened and it is now anticipated 

that the number of bridge opening 

requests will significantly increase. 

As a result of the above information 

we do not believe that a four-hour 

advance notice for bridge openings is 

justified at this time and that a fourhour advance notice for bridge openings 

would not meet the reasonable needs of 

navigation. 

DATES: The notice of proposed 

rulemaking is withdrawn on October 9, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: The docket for this 

deviation, [USCG–2014–0281] is 

available at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Type the docket number in the 


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