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Flooding source(s) Location of referenced elevation 

* Elevation in feet 

(NGVD) 

+ Elevation in feet 

(NAVD) 

# Depth in feet 

above ground 

∧Elevation in meters (MSL) 

Modified 

Communities affected 

City of Hamilton 

Maps are available for inspection at 20 High Street, Hamilton, OH 45011. 

City of Middletown 

Maps are available for inspection at 1 Donham Plaza, Middletown, OH 45042. 

City of Monroe 

Maps are available for inspection at 233 South Main Street, Monroe, OH 45050. 

City of Oxford 

Maps are available for inspection at 101 East High Street, Oxford, OH 45056. 

City of Trenton 

Maps are available for inspection at 11 East State Street, Trenton, OH 45067. 

Unincorporated Areas of Butler County 

Maps are available for inspection at 130 High Street, 3rd Floor, Hamilton, OH 45011. 

Village of New Miami 

Maps are available for inspection at 268 Whitaker Avenue, Hamilton, OH 45011. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 

97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) 

Dated: December 10, 2010. 

Sandra K. Knight, 

Deputy Federal Insurance and Mitigation 

Administrator, Mitigation, Department of 

Homeland Security, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. 2010–31666 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

46 CFR Part 45 

[Docket No. USCG–1998–4623] 

RIN 1625–AA17 

Limited Service Domestic Voyage Load 

Lines for River Barges on Lake 

Michigan, Delay of Effective Date 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of delay of effective date 

and reopening of the comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces 

that it is delaying the effective date of 

certain revisions in 46 CFR part 45 as 

amended by the final rule published in 

the November 18, 2010, Federal 

Register (75 FR 70595), and soliciting 

comments on those amendments. 

DATES: Effective Date. This action is 

effective December 20, 2010. The 

effective date of revisions to 46 CFR 

Table 45.171, § 45.187, and § 45.191(a), 

as revised in the final rule published in 

the November 18, 2010, Federal 

Register (75 FR 70595) is delayed until 

June 15, 2011. All other provisions of 

the final rule are effective on December 

20, 2010. 

Comment Period. Comments must be 

received at the address provided below 

no later than January 18, 2011. 

Comments are limited to the subject 

matter described below. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

1998–4623 using any one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

Comments and material received from 

the public, as well as documents 

mentioned in this preamble as being 

available in the docket, are part of 

docket USCG–1998–4623 and are 

available for inspection or copying at 

the Docket Management Facility (M–30), 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. You may also 

find this docket on the Internet by going 

to http://www.regulations.gov, inserting 

USCG–1998–4623 in the ‘‘Keyword’’ 

box, and then clicking ‘‘Search.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this rule, call or 

e-mail Mr. Thomas Jordan, Office of 

Design and Engineering Standards, 

Naval Architecture Division (CG–5212), 

Coast Guard; telephone 202–372–1370, 

e-mail Thomas.D.Jordan@uscg.mil. If 

you have questions on viewing or 

submitting material to the docket, call 

Ms. Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone 202–366– 

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background and Purpose 

On November 18, 2010, the Coast 

Guard published a final rule (75 FR 

70595) regarding special load line 

regimes for certain river barges 

operating on Lake Michigan. This rule 

finalized interim regulations that have 

been in effect since 2002, with some 

changes. The final regulations are 

scheduled to go into effect on December 

20, 2010. For reasons explained herein, 

we are extending the effective date of 

the revised weather restrictions (found 

in 46 CFR Table 45.171, § 45.187, and 

§ 45.191(a) of the final rule) for 6 

months and requesting public comment 

on that provision. 

United States vessels operating on 

Lake Michigan are normally required to 

have a load line assignment. River 

barges do not typically qualify for load 

line assignment because their hull 

construction is not robust enough for 

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Lakes. However, we have established 

special load line regimes whereby 

certain river barges may operate on 

select Great Lakes routes under limited 

conditions. These are conditional 

exemptions: The barges are exempted 

from the normal Great Lakes load line 

requirement only if they comply with 

the specified provisions for the route. 

On all routes, the tows are restricted to 

not more than 5 nautical miles from 

shore. And because river barges are not 

as robustly constructed as vessels 

designed for Great Lakes service, certain 

weather restrictions pertain to the routes 

in order to ensure the safety of the tow. 

It is up to the tow master to review the 

weather forecast and interpret it against 

the particular weather restrictions for 

the route. 

In reviewing marine weather forecast 

services for the routes, the National 

Weather Service (NWS) Nearshore 

Marine Forecasts for Lake Michigan 

were identified as providing localized 

forecasts for the specific waters covered 

by the exemption routes. The Nearshore 

forecast waters are a 5-mile wide 

corridor along the Lake shoreline. This 

corridor is further divided into 

coastwise zones: There are five zones 

between Milwaukee and Calumet, two 

zones between Calumet and Burns 

Harbor, and seven zones beyond Burns 

Harbor to Muskegon. The Nearshore 

forecast takes into account wind 

direction and speed for these zones, and 

the resulting wave conditions expected 

over the forecast period. 

In addition to geographic coverage, 

the general ‘‘Small Craft Advisory’’ 

(SCA) threshold conditions for the Great 

Lakes are sustained winds or gusts 

between 22 and 33 knots inclusive, and/ 

or seas or waves greater than 4 feet. 

Small Craft Advisories may also be 

issued when lake ice exists that could 

be hazardous to small boats. 

Although river barges are not 

customary small craft, the SCA 

threshold conditions align closely with 

the weather limits for the routes that 

have been in effect with the interim 

regulations. While the SCA wind range 

is higher than the interim regulation’s 

wind limits, the compensating factor is 

that the effects of the winds are 

analyzed for wave conditions in the 

Nearshore zones, as opposed to an open 

Lake forecast. We believe that this will 

lead to more-accurate wave forecasts 

within the Nearshore waters actually 

transited by the tows. 

In this regard, we believe that the use 

of the SCA is also a reasonable 

clarification of the ‘‘fair weather 

conditions’’ for the Burns Harbor route, 

since the zone forecast similarly 

considers the effect of wind direction on 

wave heights along that route. 

For these reasons, the final rule 

substituted SCA conditions as the 

limiting weather criteria for all routes 

because they align closely with the 

interim weather limitations, and offer 

the benefit of simplifying and clarifying 

the weather restrictions without 

adversely affecting any operations. 

Since publishing the final rule, 

however, the Coast Guard has received 

several comments from operators 

contending that the use of SCA criteria 

would reduce the number of operational 

days on the Burns Harbor route. 

Therefore, in order to provide operators 

with an opportunity to comment 

specifically on that issue, the Coast 

Guard is delaying the implementation of 

the SCA weather criteria and reopening 

the comment period. Meanwhile, the 

weather limitations that are in the 

present regulations, as summarized in 

original Table 45.171, will remain in 

effect during the delay period. All other 

revisions in the final rule enter into 

force on December 20, 2010. 

Request for Public Comment 

The Coast Guard is soliciting public 

comment on the weather limitations for 

these routes. Comments are particularly 

requested in regard to the following 

issues: 

• Suitability of the Nearshore SCA for 

the limiting weather conditions. 

• Alternative limiting conditions if 

SCA conditions are considered 

excessive or otherwise inappropriate. 

We are also interested in comments 

regarding operator practices and 

interpretation of the ‘‘fair weather’’ 

requirement for the Burns Harbor route 

found in the interim regulations. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 5 U.S.C. 553. 

Dated: December 13, 2010. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director of Commercial Regulations and 

Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2010–31699 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 300 

RIN 0648–XZ20 

Fraser River Sockeye Salmon 

Fisheries; Inseason Orders 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary orders; inseason 

orders; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS publishes Fraser River 

salmon inseason orders to regulate 

salmon fisheries in U.S. waters. The 

orders were issued by the Fraser River 

Panel (Panel) of the Pacific Salmon 

Commission (Commission) and 

subsequently approved and issued by 

NMFS during the 2010 salmon fisheries 

within the U.S. Fraser River Panel Area. 

These orders established fishing dates, 

times, and areas for the gear types of 

U.S. treaty Indian and all citizen 

fisheries during the period the Panel 

exercised jurisdiction over these 

fisheries. 

DATES: The effective dates for the 

inseason orders are set out in this 

document under the heading Inseason 

Orders. Comments will be accepted 

through January 3, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by 0648–XZ20 by any one of 

the following methods: 

Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Fax: 206–526–6736. 

Mail: NMFS NWR, 7600 Sand Point 

Way, NE., Seattle, WA 98115. 

Instructions: All comments received 

are a part of the public record and will 

generally be posted to http:// 

www.regulations.gov without change. 

All Personal Identifying Information (for 

example, name address, etc.) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter may be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

NMFS will accept anonymous 

comments (enter N/A in the required 

fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). Attachments to electronic 

comments will be accepted in Microsoft 

Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe 

PDF file formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Busby, by phone at 206–526– 

4323, peggy.busby@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Treaty between the Government of the 

United States of America and the 

Government of Canada concerning 

Pacific Salmon was signed at Ottawa on 

January 28, 1985, and subsequently was 

given effect in the United States by the 

Pacific Salmon Treaty Act (Act) at 16 

U.S.C. 3631–3644. 

Under authority of the Act, Federal 

regulations at 50 CFR part 300, subpart 

F provide a framework for the 


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