Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 246 / Thursday, December 23, 2010 / Rules and Regulations 80717 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Regulation and Enforcement 

30 CFR Part 250 

[Docket ID: BOEM–2010–0034] 

RIN 1010–AD68 

Increased Safety Measures for Energy 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf; Availability, Initial Regulatory 

Flexibility Analysis 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE), Interior. 

ACTION: Availability of an Initial 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis. 

SUMMARY: In the Federal Register of 

October 14, 2010, BOEM published an 

interim final rule implementing certain 

safety measures recommended in the 

report entitled, ‘‘Increased Safety 

Measures for Energy Development on 

the Outer Continental Shelf’’ (Safety 

Measures Report). The President 

directed the Department of the Interior 

to develop the Safety Measures Report 

to identify measures necessary to 

improve the safety of oil and gas 

exploration and development on the 

Outer Continental Shelf in light of the 

Deepwater Horizon event on April 20, 

2010, and resulting oil spill. To 

implement the practices recommended 

in the Safety Measures Report, the 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Regulation and Enforcement is 

amending drilling regulations related to 

well control, including: subsea and 

surface blowout preventers, well casing 

and cementing, secondary intervention, 

unplanned disconnects, recordkeeping, 

well completion, and well plugging. 

This document provides the official 

BOEMRE notice of availability for the 

Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

(IRFA) for that interim rule and 

provides opportunity for comment. 

DATES: Submit comments by January 24, 

2011. BOEMRE may not fully consider 

comments received after this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the IRFA by any of the following 

methods. Please use the Regulation 

Identifier Number (RIN) ‘‘1010–AD68 

IRFA’’ as an identifier in your message. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter BOEM– 

2010–0034 then click search. Follow the 

instructions to submit public comments 

and view other supporting and related 

materials available for this Notice. 

BOEMRE will post all comments for this 

IRFA. 

• Mail or hand-carry comments to the 

Department of the Interior; Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Regulation 

and Enforcement; Attention: 

Regulations and Standards Branch 

(RSB); 381 Elden Street, MS–4024, 

Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. Please 

reference ‘‘Increased Safety Measures for 

Energy Development on the Outer 

Continental Shelf, 1010–AD68, IRFA’’ in 

your comments and include your name 

and return address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy C. White, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement, Office of Offshore 

Regulatory Programs, Regulations and 

Standards Branch, 703–787–1665, 

amy.white@boemre.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

Notice is published pursuant to 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 603) 

as a matter of information to the public 

and to solicit comments on the analysis 

for the Interim Final Rule, Increased 

Safety Measures for Energy 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS). The preparation of this 

IRFA is an important step in the process 

for compliance with the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA). The RFA requires 

agencies to consider the impact of their 

regulatory proposals on small entities, 

analyze alternatives, and make the 

analysis available for public comment. 

BOEMRE has updated the estimated 

compliance costs and small business 

impacts from the projections reported in 

the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of 

the Safety Measures Rule. These 

changes are minor and mostly result 

from updated categorization of 

companies operating on the OCS and 

analysis of the number of wells drilled 

by small and large companies rather 

than only by lease ownership. 

Our updated analysis shows there are 

currently about 140 Operators of Federal 

oil and gas OCS leases. Small entities 

that operate under the requirements of 

the Safety Measures Rule are coded 

under the Small Business NAICS codes 

211111, Crude Petroleum and Natural 

Gas Extraction and 213111, Drilling Oil 

and Gas Wells. For these NAICS code 

classifications, a small company is one 

with fewer than 500 employees. Based 

on this criterion applied to the NAICS 

codes, approximately 90 (64 percent) of 

the companies operating on the OCS are 

considered small companies and 50 (36 

percent) are considered large 

companies. 

We estimate that about 90 percent of 

the regulatory costs will be imposed on 

deepwater lessees where small 

businesses only hold 8 percent of the 

leases and drill 12 percent of the wells. 

About 10 percent of the total costs will 

apply to shallow water leases where 

small companies hold 45 percent of 

OCS leases and also drill 45 percent of 

the wells. As a share of fiscal year 2009 

revenues, this interim final rule is 

estimated to cost approximately 0.57 

($0.156/$27.2) percent of OCS revenue 

for large companies and 0.66 ($0.027/ 

$4.1) percent for small companies. 

The analysis can be obtained through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter BOEM– 

2010–0034 then click search. You may 

also request a copy through Amy C. 

White, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement, Office of Offshore 

Regulatory Programs, Regulations and 

Standards Branch, 703–787–1665, 

amy.white@boemre.gov. 

Comments on this IRFA will be 

considered and any changes to the 

regulation as a result of these comments 

will be included in the RIN 1010–AD68, 

Increased Safety Measures for Energy 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf when the final regulation is 

published. The Safety Measures Rule 

was published in the Federal Register 

on October 14, 2010 (75 FR 63346) and 

comments are being accepted on the 

rule until December 13, 2010. 

Dated: December 6, 2010. 

Robert P. LaBelle, 

Acting Associate Director for Offshore Energy 

and Minerals Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32173 Filed 12–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 165 

[Docket No. USCG–2010–1079] 

RIN 1625–AA00 

Safety Zone; Sacramento New Year’s 

Eve, Fireworks Display, Sacramento, 

CA 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Temporary final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is 

establishing a temporary safety zone in 

support of the Sacramento New Year’s 

Eve Fireworks Display. From 8:45 p.m. 

on December 31, 2010 until 12:25 a.m. 

on January 1, 2011, pyrotechnics will be 

launched from shore over the 

Sacramento River and from the center of 

the Tower Lift Bridge on the Sacramento 

River. The fireworks displays will occur 

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