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below the poverty level, belonging to a 

racial or ethnic minority group, and/or 

having a disability. 

Descriptions of previous National 

Surveys of OAA Participants can be 

found under the section on OAA 

Performance Information on ACL’s 

website at: https://acl.gov/programs/ 

performance-older-americans-actprograms. Copies of the survey 

instruments and data from previous 

National Surveys of OAA Participants 

can be found and queried using the 

Aging, Independence, and Disability 

(AGID) Program Data Portal at http://

www.agid.acl.gov/. 

Estimated Program Burden: ACL 

estimates the burden associated with 

this collection of information as follows: 

Respondent/data collection activity Number of 

respondents 

Responses per 

respondent 

Hours per 

response 

Annual burden 

hours Cost per hour Annual burden (cost) 

Rotating Module on Emergency Preparedness ...................... 6,000 1 .2 1,200 $25 $30,000 

Dated: March 25, 2022. 

Alison Barkoff, 

Acting Administrator and Assistant Secretary 

for Aging. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2022–0047] 

Port Access Route Study: Approaches 

to Maine, New Hampshire, and 

Massachusetts 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of study; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is 

conducting a Port Access Route Study 

(PARS) to evaluate the adequacy of 

existing vessel routing measures and 

determine whether additional vessel 

routing measures are necessary for port 

approaches to Maine, New Hampshire, 

Massachusetts, and international and 

domestic transit areas in the First Coast 

Guard District area of responsibility 

(AOR). The Approaches to Maine, New 

Hampshire, and Massachusetts PARS 

(MNMPARS) will consider whether 

existing or additional routing measures 

are necessary to improve navigation 

safety due to factors such as planned or 

potential offshore development, current 

port capabilities and planned 

improvements, increased vessel traffic, 

changing vessel traffic patterns, weather 

conditions, or navigational difficulty. 

Vessel routing measures, which include 

traffic separation schemes, two-way 

routes, recommended tracks, deep-water 

routes, precautionary areas, and areas to 

be avoided, are implemented to reduce 

risk of marine casualties. The 

recommendations of the study may 

subsequently be implemented through 

rulemakings or in accordance with 

international agreements. 

DATES: All comments and related 

material must be received on or before 

May 16, 2022. Commenters should be 

aware that the electronic Federal Docket 

Management System will not accept 

comments after midnight, Eastern 

Daylight Time, on the last day of the 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2022–0047 using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal (http://

www.regulations.gov). See the ‘‘Public 

Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this notice of 

study, call or email LTJG Thomas Davis, 

First Coast Guard District (dpw), U.S. 

Coast Guard: telephone (617) 223–8632, 

email SMB-D1Boston-MNMPARS@

uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Table of Abbreviations 

ACPARS Atlantic Coast Port Access Route 

Study 

AIS Automatic Identification System 

COMDTINST Commandant Instruction 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone 

MNMPARS Approaches to Maine, New 

Hampshire, and Massachusetts Port Access 

Route Study 

MTS Marine Transportation System 

PARS Port Access Route Study 

TSS Traffic Separation Scheme 

USCG United States Coast Guard 

II. Background and Purpose 

A. Requirements for Port Access 

Route Studies: Under Section 70003 of 

Title 46 of the United States Code, the 

Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard 

may designate necessary fairways and 

traffic separation schemes (TSSs) to 

provide safe access routes for vessels 

proceeding to and from U.S. ports. The 

designation of fairways and TSSs 

recognizes the paramount right of 

navigation over all other uses in the 

designated areas. 

Before establishing or adjusting 

fairways or TSSs, the Coast Guard must 

conduct a PARS, i.e., a study of 

potential traffic density and the need for 

safe access routes for vessels. Through 

the study process, the Coast Guard must 

coordinate with federal, state, tribal, and 

foreign state agencies (where 

appropriate) and consider the views of 

maritime community representatives, 

environmental groups, and other 

stakeholders. The primary purpose of 

this coordination is, to the extent 

practicable, to reconcile the need for 

safe access routes with other reasonable 

waterway uses such as anchorages, 

construction, operation of renewable 

energy facilities, marine sanctuary 

operations, commercial and recreational 

activities, and other uses. 

In addition to aiding in the 

establishment of new or adjusting 

existing fairways or TSSs, this PARS 

may recommend establishing or 

amending other vessel routing 

measures. Examples of other routing 

measures include two-way routes, 

recommended tracks, deep-water routes 

(for the benefit primarily of ships whose 

ability to maneuver is constrained by 

their draft), precautionary areas (where 

ships must navigate with particular 

caution), and areas to be avoided (for 

reasons of exceptional danger or 

especially sensitive ecological 

environmental factors). 

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B. Previous Port Access Route Studies 

within this Study Area: The Coast Guard 

established the TSS in the approaches to 

Portland, ME, in 1978. In 2005, the 

Coast Guard published a notice of study 

in the Federal Register (70 FR 7067; 

February 10, 2005) announcing a PARS 

to Evaluate the Vessel Routing Measures 

in the Approaches to Portland, ME, and 

Casco Bay, ME. The PARS was 

completed in 2006 and concluded that 

no amendment to the TSS was needed. 

The TSS in the approach to Boston, 

MA was established in 1973 and was 

amended in 1983, 2007, and 2009. In 

2005, the Coast Guard announced in the 

Federal Register (70 FR 8312; February 

18, 2005) a PARS of Potential Vessel 

Routing Measures to Reduce Vessel 

Strikes of North Atlantic Right Whales. 

The completed PARS was published in 

the Federal Register (71 FR 29876; May 

24, 2006) and recommended realigning 

and amending the location and size of 

the western portion of the TSS in the 

approach to Boston, MA. The TSS was 

revised in 2007 and the new 

configuration appeared on nautical 

charts soon thereafter. 


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BILLING CODE 9110–04–C 

In 2016, the Coast Guard published a 

notice of its Atlantic Coast Port Access 

Route Study (ACPARS) in the Federal 

Register (81 FR 13307; March 14, 2016) 

and announced the study report as final 

in the Federal Register (82 FR 16510; 

April 5, 2017). The ACPARS analyzed 

the Atlantic Coast waters seaward of 

existing port approaches within the U.S. 

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). 

Information provided by stakeholders 

and Automatic Identification System 

(AIS) vessel traffic data was used to 

identify and verify deep draft and 

coastwise navigation routes typically 

followed by ships engaged in commerce 

between international and domestic 

U.S. ports. 

C. Need for a New Port Access Route 

Study: In 2019, the Coast Guard 

announced a new study of routes used 

by ships to access ports on the Atlantic 

Coast of the United States in the Federal 

Register (84 FR 9541; March 15, 2019). 

This study supplemented and built 

upon the ACPARS by conducting a 

series of PARSs to examine ports along 

the Atlantic Coast that are economically 

significant, that support military or 

critical national defense operations, and 

any related international entry and 

departure transit areas that are integral 

to the safe, efficient, and unimpeded 

flow of commerce to/from major 

international shipping lanes. The 

MNMPARS will be conducted in 

support of the ACPARS initiative. 

III. Information Requested 

The study area encompasses a very 

large region (20,500 square nautical 

miles), bounded by the states of Maine, 

New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, 

and the Canadian provinces of Nova 

Scotia and New Brunswick. The 

purpose of this notice is to announce 

commencement of this PARS to 

examine the First Coast Guard District’s 

portion of the Gulf of Maine, the New 

Hampshire Seacoast, and the 

Massachusetts Bay, and to solicit public 

comments. We encourage you to 

participate in the study process by 

submitting comments in response to this 

notice. Comments should address 

impacts to navigation in the area of 

study resulting from factors such as 

offshore development, increased vessel 

traffic, changing vessel traffic patterns, 

weather conditions, or navigational 

difficulty. 

IV. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to participate in 

this study by submitting comments and 

related materials. 

A. Submitting Comments: To submit 

your comment online, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and insert 

‘‘USCG–2022–0047’’ in the ‘‘search 

box.’’ Click ‘‘Search’’. Then click 

‘‘Comment.’’ The ‘‘Comment’’ button 

can be found on the following pages: 

• Docket Details page when a 

document within the docket is open for 

comment, 

• Document Details page when the 

document is open for comment, and 


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• Document Search Tab with all 

search results open for comment 

displaying a ‘‘Comment’’ button. 

Clicking ‘‘Comment’’ on any of the 

above pages will display the comment 

form. You can enter your comment on 

the form, attach files (maximum of 20 

files up to 10MB each), and choose 

whether to identify yourself as an 

individual, an organization, or 

anonymously. Be sure to complete all 

required fields depending on which 

identity you have chosen. Once you 

have completed all required fields and 

chosen an identity, the ‘‘Submit 

Comment’’ button is enabled. Upon 

completion, you will receive a Comment 

Tracking Number for your comment. For 

additional step by step instructions, 

please see the Frequently Asked 

Questions page on http://

www.regulations.gov or by clicking 

https://www.regulations.gov/faq. 

We accept anonymous comments. 

Comments we post to http://

www.regulations.gov will include any 

personal information you have 

provided. 

We review all comments and 

materials received during the comment 

period, but we may choose not to post 

off-topic, inappropriate, or duplicate 

comments that we receive. 

B. How do I find and browse for 

posted comments on Regulations.gov. 

On the previous version of 

Regulations.gov, users browsed for 

comments on the Docket Details page. 

However, since comments are made on 

individual documents, not dockets, new 

Regulations.gov organizes comments 

under their corresponding document. 

To access comments and documents 

submitted to this draft version of the 

study report go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and insert 

‘‘USCG–2022–0047’’ in the ‘‘search 

box.’’ Click ‘‘Search.’’ Then scroll down 

to and click on the ‘‘notice’’ entitled 

‘‘Port Access Route Study: Notice of 

availability of draft report and public 

information session; request for 

comments.’’ This will open to the 

‘‘Document Details’’ page. Then click on 

the ‘‘Browse Comments’’ tab. On the 

comment tab, you can search and filter 

comments. Note: If no comments have 

been posted to a document, the 

‘‘Comments’’ tab will not appear on the 

Document Details page. 

C. If you need additional help 

navigating the new Regulations.gov. For 

additional step by step instructions to 

submit a comment or to view submitted 

comments or other documents please 

see the Frequently Asked Questions 

(FAQs) at http://www.regulations.gov/ 

faqs or call or email the person in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section of this document for alternate 

instructions. 

D. Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of comments received 

into any of our dockets by the name of 

the individual submitting the comment 

(or signing the comment, if submitted 

on behalf of an association, business, 

labor union, etc.). You may review a 

Privacy Act, system of records notice 

regarding DHS’s eRulemaking in the 

March 11, 2020 issue of the Federal 

Register (85 FR 14226). 

V. MNMPARS: Timeline, Study Area, 

and Process 

The First Coast Guard District will 

conduct this PARS. The study will 

commence upon publication of this 

notice and may take 12 months or more 

to complete. 

The study area will include the Gulf 

of Maine, the New Hampshire Seacoast, 

and Massachusetts Bay regions within 

the First Coast Guard District AOR 

encompassed by a line connecting the 

following geographic positions: 

• 41°55′ N 70°33′ W 

• 42°08′ N 70°15′ W 

• 42°08′ N 67°08′17′′ W 

then proceeding north along the 

outermost extent of the EEZ and U.S./ 

Canadian border and thence along the 

coast line back to the origin. This area 

extends approximately 175 nautical 

miles seaward and covers 

approximately 20,500 square nautical 

miles. An illustration showing the study 

area is below. 


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Analyses will be conducted in 

accordance with COMDTINST 

16003.2B, Marine Planning to Operate 

and Maintain the Marine Transportation 

System (MTS) and Implement National 

Policy. Instruction is available at 

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/10/ 

2002155400/-1/-1/0/CI_16003_2B.PDF. 

We will publish the results of the 

PARS in the Federal Register. It is 

possible that the study may validate the 

status quo (no routing measures) and 

conclude that no changes are necessary. 

It is also possible that the study may 

recommend one or more changes to 

address navigational safety and the 

efficiency of vessel traffic management. 

The recommendations may lead to 

future rulemakings or appropriate 

international agreements. 

VI. Future Actions 

In Person Public Meetings: Although 

the Coast Guard prefers and highly 

encourages all comments and related 

material be submitted directly to the 

electronic docket we do understand the 

value that in person public meetings 

will add to the study. Therefore, the 

Coast Guard intends to hold public 

meetings at various locations 

throughout the study area as the 2022 

study process continues. For this initial 

comment period we ask that you make 

your comments directly to the docket, 

addressing impacts to navigation in the 

area of study resulting from factors such 

as offshore development, increased 

vessel traffic, changing vessel traffic 

patterns, weather conditions, or 

navigational difficulty. We anticipate 

that these early comments will inform 

us as to prevalent concerns and how 

best to use our limited resources when 

scheduling meeting locations. 

Future public meetings will be 

announced by a notice in the Federal 

Register. 

This notice is published under the 

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

Dated: March 22, 2022. 

T.G. Allan Jr., 

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

First Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06818 Filed 3–30–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID FEMA–2022–0002] 

Changes in Flood Hazard 

Determinations 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: New or modified Base (1- 

percent annual chance) Flood 

Elevations (BFEs), base flood depths, 

Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) 

boundaries or zone designations, and/or 

regulatory floodways (hereinafter 

referred to as flood hazard 

determinations) as shown on the 

indicated Letter of Map Revision 

(LOMR) for each of the communities 

listed in the table below are finalized. 

Each LOMR revises the Flood Insurance 

Rate Maps (FIRMs), and in some cases 

the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports, 

currently in effect for the listed 

communities. 


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