49348 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 163 / Wednesday, August 23, 2006 / Rules and Regulations 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

32 CFR Parts 71, 105, and 243 

Removal of Obsolete Regulations 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

removing several CFR parts from 

Chapter I, Office of the Secretary of 

Defense. This administrative action 

removes obsolete information from the 

Code of Federal Regulations and notifies 

readers of the availability of the current 

DoD documents that contain the 

information being removed. 

DATES: This rule is effective August 23, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: L. 

Bynum 703–696–4970. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each part 

has been removed to correspond with 

the cancellation of the DoD Directive for 

which the part was based. The chart 

below identifies the part number and 

it’s companion Directive. All three DoD 

Directives were canceled by a Director 

of Administration and Management 

memorandum dated August 8, 2006. 

Part No. Title DoD 

directive No. 

71 ...................................................... Eligibility Requirements for Education of Minor Dependents in Overseas Areas ................... 1342.13 

105 .................................................... Employment and Volunteer Work of Spouses of Military Personnel ...................................... 1400.33 

243 .................................................... Intergovernmental Coordination of DoD Federal Development Programs and Activities ....... 4165.61 

List of Subjects 

32 CFR Part 71 

Elementary and secondary education; 

Military personnel; Panama Canal. 

32 CFR Part 105 

Military personnel. 

32 CFR Part 243 

Intergovernmental relations. 

PARTS 71, 105, and 243—[REMOVED] 

■ Accordingly, by the authority of 10 

U.S.C. 301, 32 CFR parts 71, 105, and 

243 are removed. 

August 14, 2006. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 06–7010 Filed 8–22–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 117 

[CGD01–06–006] 

RIN 1625–AA09 

Drawbridge Operation Regulations; 

Jamaica Bay and Connecting 

Waterways, New York City, NY 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Temporary final rule; extension 

of effective period. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has changed 

the effective period for the temporary 

regulation governing the operation of 

the New York City Highway Bridge (Belt 

Parkway), at mile 0.8, across Mill Basin, 

at New York City, New York. This 

temporary final rule allows the bridge 

owner to extend the effective period 

during which only one of the two 

moveable spans need open for the 

passage of vessel traffic. This rule is 

necessary to facilitate the completion of 

the ongoing bridge deck replacement. 

DATES: This temporary rule is effective 

from September 8, 2006 through 

December 30, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Comments and material 

received from the public, as well as 

documents indicated in this preamble as 

being available in the docket, are part of 

docket CGD01–06–006 and are available 

for inspection or copying at the First 

Coast Guard District, Bridge Branch 

Office, 408 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, 

Massachusetts 02110, between 7 a.m. 

and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Judy Leung-Yee, Project Officer, First 

Coast Guard District, (212) 668–7195. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulatory Information 

On January 30, 2006, we published a 

notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

entitled ‘‘Drawbridge Operation 

Regulations; Jamaica Bay and 

Connecting Waterways, New York City, 

NY,’’ in the Federal Register (71 FR 

4852). We received no comments in 

response to the NPRM. 

On March 13, 2006, we published a 

temporary final rule (TFR) entitled 

‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulations; 

Jamaica Bay and Connecting Waterways, 

New York City, NY,’’ in the Federal 

Register (71 FR 12621). 

We did not publish an NPRM for this 

extension of the temporary final rule’s 

effective period. Under 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(B), the Coast Guard finds that 

good cause exists for not publishing an 

NPRM because it is impracticable to 

issue an NPRM prior to the previously 

announced September 7, 2006 

expiration of the temporary final rule, 

and because any interruption of the 

arrangements permitted by the 

temporary final rule would be contrary 

to the public interest. For the same 

reason, the Coast Guard finds under 5 

U.S.C. 553(d) that good cause exists for 

making this extension of the temporary 

final rule effective less than 30 days 

after publication. The deck replacement 

for the New York City Highway Bridge 

is ongoing, vital, and necessary work 

that must be performed without delay as 

a result of the deterioration of the 

existing bridge deck which could fail if 

not replaced with all due speed. Work 

is behind schedule due to unforeseen 

construction delays and bad weather. In 

order to assure the continued safe and 

reliable operation of the bridge, 

construction should be allowed to 

continue through December 30, 2006. 

Background and Purpose 

The New York City Highway Bridge 

(Belt Parkway), has a vertical clearance 

of 34 feet at mean high water and 39 feet 

at mean low water in the closed 

position. The existing regulations are 

listed at 33 CFR 117.795(b). 

The owner of the bridge, New York 

City Department of Transportation 

(NYCDOT), requested a temporary 

change to the drawbridge operation 

regulations in November 2005, to 

facilitate the replacement of the bridge 

roadway deck. During the prosecution 

of that rehabilitation construction, the 

opening span that was undergoing deck 

replacement could not open for vessel 

traffic. As a result, the bridge owner 

requested that only one of the two 

opening spans open for the passage of 

vessel traffic from March 1, 2006 

through September 7, 2006. 

The Coast Guard published a 

temporary final rule (71 FR 12621) on 

March 13, 2006, effective from March 8, 


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