[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 127 (Friday, June 30, 2000)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 40559-40560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16658]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

33 CFR Parts 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, and 147

[USCG-1998-3868]
RIN 2115-AF39


Outer Continental Shelf Activities

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is further extending the period for public 
comment on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on Outer 
Continental Shelf Activities. We are changing the deadline for receipt 
of comments from July 5, 2000, to November 30, 2000. Also, we are 
changing the deadline for receipt of comments by the Office of 
Management and Budget on the proposed collection-of-information 
requirements from July 5, 2000, to November 30, 2000.

DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before November 30, 2000. Comments sent to OMB on 
collection of information must reach OMB on or before November 30, 
2000.

ADDRESSES: To make sure your comments and related material are not 
entered more than once in the docket, please submit them by only one of 
the following methods:
    (1) By mail to the Docket Management Facility, (USCG-1998-3868), 
U.S. Department of Transportation, room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (2) By hand to room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif 
Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC,

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between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays. The telephone number is 202-366-9329.
    (3) By fax to the Docket Management Facility at 202-493-2251.
    (4) Electronically through the Web Site for the Docket Management 
System at http://dms.dot.gov.
    You may also mail comments on collection of information to the 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, ATTN: Desk Officer, 
U.S. Coast Guard.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on this proposed rule, 
call Mr. James M. Magill, Vessel and Facility Operating Standards 
Division (G-MSO-2), telephone 202-267-1082 or fax 202-267-4570. For 
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms. 
Dorothy Beard, Chief of Dockets, Department of Transportation, 
telephone 202-366-9329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on Outer Continental Shelf 
Activities, published on December 7, 1999 (64 FR 68416), encouraged 
interested persons to participate in this rulemaking by submitting 
written data, views, or arguments by April 5, 2000. It also invited 
comments on collection-of-information requirements to be submitted to 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by February 7, 2000. We 
received a request to extend both of those dates to July 5, 2000, and 
did so by a notice of extension (65 FR 14226, March 16, 2000). As a 
result of several requests since that notice of extension, we are again 
extending both dates until November 30, 2000.
    Persons submitting comments should include their names and 
addresses, identify this docket (USCG-1998-3868) and the specific 
section of the NPRM to which each comment applies, and give the reason 
for each comment. You may submit your comments and material by mail, 
hand delivery, fax, or electronic means to the Docket Management 
Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit your 
comments and material by only one means. If you submit them by mail or 
hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ 
by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you submit 
them by mail and would like to know they reached the Facility, please 
enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard or envelope.
    The Coast Guard will consider all comments received during the 
comment period. It may change this NPRM in view of them.

    Dated: June 27, 2000.
Joseph J. Angelo,
Director of Standards, Marine Safety and Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 00-16658 Filed 6-29-00; 8:45 am]
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