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comments received, the Coast Guard 

proposes four additional measures for 

consideration by the public: One 

precautionary area and three shipping 

safety fairways. We seek your input on 

these proposals and welcome comment 

on any impact to vessel transit time, 

commercial fishing activity, recreational 

activity, and/or navigation safety. All 

comments received will be reviewed 

and considered before a final version of 

the PARS is announced in the Federal 

Register. This notice is published under 

the authority of 46 U.S.C. 70004 and 5 

U.S.C. 552(a). 

IV. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments to this notice of availability 

through the Federal portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. To do so, go to 

https://www.regulations.gov, type 

USCG–2020–0093 in the ‘‘SEARCH’’ 

box and click ‘‘SEARCH.’’ Next, look for 

this document in the Search Results 

column, and click on it. Then click on 

the Comment option. In your 

submission, please include the docket 

number for this notice of availability 

and provide a reason for each suggestion 

or recommendation. If your material 

cannot be submitted using https://

www.regulations.gov, contact the person 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document for 

alternate instructions. 

To view documents mentioned in this 

notice of inquiry as being available in 

the docket, find the docket as described 

in the previous paragraph, and then 

select ‘‘Supporting & Related Material’’ 

in the Document Type column. Public 

comments will also be placed in our 

online docket and can be viewed by 

following instructions on the https://

www.regulations.gov Frequently Asked 

Questions web page. We review all 

comments received, but we may choose 

not to post off-topic, inappropriate, or 

duplicate comments that we receive. 

We accept anonymous comments. 

Comments we post to https://

www.regulations.gov will include any 

personal information you have 

provided. For more about privacy and 

submissions in response to this 

document, see DHS’s eRulemaking 

System of Records notice (85 FR 14226, 

March 11, 2020). 

This document is issued under 

authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a). 

Dated: March 8, 2022. 

Richard E. Batson, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting 

Commander, Fifth Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06235 Filed 3–23–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket Number USCG–2020–0172] 

Port Access Route Study: Seacoast of 

New Jersey Including Offshore 

Approaches to the Delaware Bay, 

Delaware 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces 

the completion of the Port Access Route 

Study for the Seacoast of New Jersey 

Including Offshore Approaches to the 

Delaware Bay, Delaware. The study 

examined existing shipping routes and 

waterway uses, to include the potential 

for offshore energy development, in the 

study area to evaluate the need for 

establishing or changing existing vessel 

routing measures. This notice 

summarizes the study’s 

recommendation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this notice or 

study, call or email Mr. Matthew 

Creelman, Marine Planner at Fifth Coast 

Guard District, telephone (757) 398– 

6225, email Matthew.K.Creelman2@

uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Table of Abbreviations 

ACPARS Atlantic Coast Ports Access Route 

Study 

BOEM Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

FR Federal Register 

IMO International Maritime Organization 

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act 

OREI Offshore Renewable Energy 

Installation 

PARS Port Access Route Study 

SAR Search and Rescue 

USCG United States Coast Guard 

II. Background and Purpose 

We conducted this Port Access Route 

Study (PARS) following a Notice of 

Study, published in the Federal 

Register on May 5, 2020. There was a 

60-day public comment period, as well 

as other outreach efforts identified in 

Section C of the study. During the 

comment period the USCG received 32 

comments in response to the notice. 

We conducted two (2) public 

meetings, as published in the Federal 

Register (85 FR 64507), on September 

13, 2020. Audio recordings of both 

meetings are contained in the public 

docket as annotated in Section C of the 

study. 

On September 24, 2021, we published 

a Notice of Availability of the draft 

study in the Federal Register (86 FR 

53089) with a 30-day public comment 

period and a request for public 

comment. 

During the 30-day public comment 

period, the USCG received 15 comments 

in response to our draft study. All 

comments and supporting documents 

are available in the public docket and 

can be viewed at https://

www.regulations.gov. To view 

documents, in the ‘‘Search’’ box insert 

‘‘USCG–2020–0172’’ and click 

‘‘Search’’. 

The goal of the study is to enhance 

navigational safety in the study area by 

examining existing shipping routes and 

waterway uses. We have undertaken 

measures to (1) determine what, if any, 

navigational safety concerns exist with 

vessel transits in the study area; (2) 

determine whether to recommend 

changes to enhance navigational safety 

by examining existing shipping routes 

and all other waterway uses; and (3) 

reconcile any other proposed changes 

with other reasonable waterway uses. 

III. Study Recommendations 

The recommendations of this PARS 

are based on the data analysis for 

historical vessel traffic patterns, 

comments received to the docket, public 

outreach, and consultation with other 

government agencies and stakeholders. 

Recommendations in the study include: 

1. Submit proposals to the IMO to 

create precautionary areas offshore from 

the entrance to the Delaware River 

where shipping safety fairways and 

traffic separation schemes intersect. 

2. Submit proposals to the IMO to 

extend the Traffic Separation Schemes 

in the approach to the Delaware River 

beyond any OREI lease areas adjacent to 

the approaches. 

3. Submit a proposal to the IMO to 

extend the two-way route along the New 

Jersey coast across the entrance of the 

Delaware Bay and along the Delaware 

coast. 

4. Amend the proposed Shipping 

Safety Fairways along the Atlantic Coast 

to separate the Cape Charles to Montauk 

Point Fairway into a Cape Charles to 

Delaware Bay Fairway and a Barnegat to 

Narragansett Fairway. 

5. Create a New Jersey to New York 

Fairway and include this in the 

Shipping Safety Fairways along the 

Atlantic Coast. 

6. Establish a Fairway Anchorage 

adjacent to the Southeastern Traffic 

Separation Scheme to accommodate 

future needs for safe anchorage around 

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1 50 U.S.C. 4558(c)(1). 

2 85 FR 18403 (Apr. 1, 2020). 

3 DHS Delegation 09052, Rev. 00.1 (Apr. 1, 2020); 

DHS Delegation Number 09052 Rev. 00 (Jan. 3, 

2017). 

4 85 FR 50035 (Aug. 17, 2020). The Attorney 

General, in consultation with the Chairman of the 

Federal Trade Commission, made the required 

finding that the purpose of the voluntary agreement 

may not reasonably be achieved through an 

agreement having less anticompetitive effects or 

without any voluntary agreement and published the 

finding in the Federal Register on the same day. 85 

FR 50049 (Aug. 17, 2020). 

5See 86 FR 27894 (May 24, 2021). See also 86 FR 

28851 (May 28, 2021). 

6See 86 FR 57444 (Oct. 15, 2021). See also 87 FR 

6880 (Feb. 7, 2022). 

IV. Summary of Changes 

Recommendations in Section F were 

expanded to include a general notice to 

mariners on navigation safety around 

OREI. 

The table of coordinates was removed 

in an effort to avoid confusion. Detailed 

coordinates for proposed routing 

measures, fairways, and anchorage 

grounds will be announced in future 

rulemakings. 

A statement acknowledging the 

impact of OREI on SAR was included in 

Section F to address future actions 

necessary to ensure operational units 

revise plans to incorporate in the future. 

A section summarizing comments to 

the draft report from the public was 

added as a new Section G and 

subsequent sections were re-labeled to 

incorporate this addition. 

V. Future Actions 

The USCG will continue to serve as a 

NEPA cooperating agency to the Bureau 

of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) 

environmental review of each proposed 

OREI project. In that role, the USCG will 

evaluate the navigational safety risks of 

each proposal on a case-by-case basis. 

The final study will be submitted to 

the Coast Guard’s Office of Navigation 

Systems (CG–NAV–2) for consideration 

and to inform the Coast Guard’s ongoing 

efforts to establish shipping safety 

fairways along the Atlantic Coast, which 

can be found at 85 FR 37034. 

The final study is available for 

viewing and download from the Federal 

Register docket at http://

www.regulations.gov or the USCG 

Navigation Center website at https://

www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=

PARSReports. 

Dated: March 18, 2022. 

Laura M. Dickey, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, 

Fifth Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06228 Filed 3–23–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2020–0016] 

Meetings To Implement Pandemic 

Response Voluntary Agreement Under 

Section 708 of the Defense Production 

Act 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: Announcement of meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) is holding 

meetings under the Plan of Action to 

Establish a National Strategy for the 

Manufacture, Allocation, and 

Distribution of Medical Devices to 

Respond to COVID–19 and the Plan of 

Action to Establish a National Strategy 

for the Manufacture, Allocation, and 

Distribution of Drug Products, Drug 

Substances, and Associated Medical 

Devices to Respond to COVID–19, in 

order to implement the Voluntary 

Agreement for the Manufacture and 

Distribution of Critical Healthcare 

Resources Necessary to Respond to a 

Pandemic. 

DATES:

• Thursday, March 24, 2022, from 1 

p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). 

• Thursday, April 7, 2022, from 1 

p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Glenn, FEMA Office of Response 

and Recovery’s Office of Business, 

Industry, and Infrastructure Integration, 

via email at OB3I@fema.dhs.gov or via 

phone at (202) 212–1666. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

these meetings is provided as required 

by section 708(h)(8) of the Defense 

Production Act (DPA), 50 U.S.C. 

4558(h)(8), and consistent with 44 CFR 

part 332. 

The DPA authorizes the making of 

‘‘voluntary agreements and plans of 

action’’ with representatives of industry, 

business, and other interests to help 

provide for the national defense.1 The 

President’s authority to facilitate 

voluntary agreements with respect to 

responding to the spread of COVID–19 

within the United States was delegated 

to the Secretary of Homeland Security 

in Executive Order 13911.2 The 

Secretary of Homeland Security further 

delegated this authority to the FEMA 

Administrator.3

On August 17, 2020, after the 

appropriate consultations with the 

Attorney General and the Chairman of 

the Federal Trade Commission, FEMA 

completed and published in the Federal 

Register a ‘‘Voluntary Agreement, 

Manufacture and Distribution of Critical 

Healthcare Resources Necessary to 

Respond to a Pandemic’’ (Voluntary 

Agreement).4 Unless terminated earlier, 

the Voluntary Agreement is effective 

until August 17, 2025, and may be 

extended subject to additional approval 

by the Attorney General after 

consultation with the Chairman of the 

Federal Trade Commission. The 

Agreement may be used to prepare for 

or respond to any pandemic, including 

COVID–19, during that time. 

On May 24, 2021, four additional 

plans of action under the Voluntary 

Agreement—the Plan of Action to 

Establish a National Strategy for the 

Manufacture, Allocation, and 

Distribution of Diagnostic Test Kits and 

other Testing Components to respond to 

COVID–19, the Plan of Action to 

Establish a National Strategy for the 

Manufacture, Allocation, and 

Distribution of Drug Products, Drug 

Substances, and Associated Medical 

Devices to respond to COVID–19, the 

Plan of Action to Establish a National 

Strategy for the Manufacture, 

Allocation, and Distribution of Medical 

Devices to respond to COVID–19, and 

the Plan of Action to Establish a 

National Strategy for the Manufacture, 

Allocation, and Distribution of Medical 

Gases to respond to COVID–19—were 

finalized.5 These plans of action 

established several sub-committees 

under the Voluntary Agreement, 

focusing on different aspects of each 

plan of action. 

On October 15, 2021, the sixth plan of 

action under the Voluntary 

Agreement—the Plan of Action to 

Establish a National Strategy for the 

Coordination of National Multimodal 

Healthcare Supply Chains to Respond to 

COVID–19—was finalized.6 This plan of 

action established several subcommittees under the Voluntary 

Agreement, focusing on different 

transportation categories. 

The meetings are chaired by the 

FEMA Administrator’s delegates from 

the Office of Response and Recovery 

(ORR) and Office of Policy and Program 

Analysis (OPPA), attended by the 

Attorney General’s delegates from the 

U.S. Department of Justice, and attended 

by the Chairman of the Federal Trade 

Commission’s delegates. In 

implementing the Voluntary Agreement, 

FEMA adheres to all procedural 

requirements of 50 U.S.C. 4558 and 44 

CFR part 332. 

Meeting Objectives: The objectives of 

the meetings are as follows: 


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