107000 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 250 / Tuesday, December 31, 2024 / Rules and Regulations 

2025. The Coast Guard will enforce a 

100-foot safety zone around the 

fireworks barge during the loading, 

standby, transit, and arrival of the 

fireworks barge from the loading 

location to the display location and 

until the start of the fireworks display. 

On December 31, 2024, the fireworks 

barge will be loaded with pyrotechnics 

at Pier 64, Wharf 4 in San Francisco, 

CA, from approximately noon until 

approximately 6 p.m. The fireworks 

barge will remain on standby at the load 

location until their transit to the display 

location. From 10:45 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. 

on December 31, 2024, the loaded 

fireworks barge will transit from Pier 64, 

Wharf 4 to the launch site near the San 

Francisco Ferry Building in 

approximate position 37°47′45′′ N, 

122°23′15′′ W (NAD 83), where they will 

remain until the conclusion of the 

fireworks display. At approximately 

11:45 p.m. on December 31, 2024, 15- 

minutes prior to the fireworks display, 

the safety zone will expand to 

encompass all navigable waters, from 

surface to bottom, within a circle 

formed by connecting all points 1,000 

feet out from the fireworks barge. The 

fireworks barge will be near the San 

Francisco Ferry Building in San 

Francisco, CA, in approximate position 

37°47′45′′ N, 122°23′15′′ W (NAD 83) as 

set forth in 33 CFR 165.1191, table 1, 

item number 24. The safety zone will be 

enforced until 12:45 a.m. on January 1, 

2025, or as announced via Broadcast 

Notice to Mariners. 

In addition to this notification in the 

Federal Register, the Coast Guard plans 

to provide notification of the safety zone 

and its enforcement period via the Local 

Notice to Mariners. 

Under the provisions of 33 CFR 

165.1191, unauthorized persons or 

vessels are prohibited from entering 

into, transiting through, or anchoring 

within the safety zone during all 

applicable effective dates and times, 

unless authorized to do so by the Patrol 

Commander or other Official Patrol, 

defined as a Federal, State, or local law 

enforcement agency on scene to assist 

the Coast Guard in enforcing the 

regulated area. Additionally, each 

person who receives notice of a lawful 

order or direction issued by the Patrol 

Commander or Official Patrol shall obey 

the order or direction. The Patrol 

Commander or Official Patrol may, 

upon request, allow the transit of 

commercial vessels through the 

regulated areas when it is safe to do so. 

If the Captain of the Port determines 

that the regulated area need not be 

enforced for the full duration stated in 

this notification, a Broadcast Notice to 

Mariners may be used to grant general 

permission to enter the regulated area. 

Dated: December 19, 2024. 

Jordan M. Baldueza, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port San Francisco. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 165 

[Docket No. USCG–2024–1069] 

Safety Zone; Sacramento New Years’s 

Eve Fireworks; Sacramento River, 

Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). 

ACTION: Notification of enforcement of 

regulation. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce 

the safety zone in the navigable waters 

of the Sacramento River near the Tower 

Bridge for the Sacramento New Year’s 

Eve Fireworks Display. The safety zone 

will be enforced on December 31, 2024. 

This action is necessary to protect 

personnel, vessels and the marine 

environment from the dangers 

associated with pyrotechnics. During 

the enforcement period, unauthorized 

persons or vessels are prohibited from 

entering, transiting through, or 

remaining in the safety zone, unless 

authorized by the Patrol Commander, 

other Federal, State, or local law 

enforcement agencies. 

DATES: The regulation in 33 CFR 

165.1191 will be enforced for the 

location described in table 1 to 

§ 165.1191, item number 25, from 8:45 

p.m. until 9:20 p.m. on December 31, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this 

notification of enforcement, call or 

email Lieutenant William Harris, U.S. 

Coast Guard Sector San Francisco, 

Waterways Management Division; 

telephone (415) 399–7443, or email 

SFWaterways@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast 

Guard will enforce the safety zone 

regulations in 33 CFR 165.1191 for the 

event and location listed in table 1 to 

§ 165.1191, item number 25, for the 

Sacramento New Year’s Eve Fireworks 

Display from 8:45 p.m. until 9:20 p.m. 

on December 31, 2024. The Coast Guard 

will enforce a 700-foot safety zone 

around the shore-based launch location 

near the Tower Bridge at approximate 

position 38°34′58.1′′ N, 121°30′24.8′′ W 

(NAD 83) beginning 15-minutes prior to 

the 5-minute fireworks display. The 

safety zone will be enforced until 9:20 

p.m. on December 31, 2024, 15-minutes 

following the conclusion of the 

fireworks display. 

In addition to this notification in the 

Federal Register, the Coast Guard plans 

to provide notification of the safety zone 

and its enforcement period via the Local 

Notice to Mariners. 

Under the provision of 33 CFR 

165.1191, unauthorized persons or 

vessels are prohibited from entering 

into, transiting through, or anchoring 

within the safety zone during all 

applicable effective dates and times, 

unless authorized to do so by the Patrol 

Commander or other Official Patrol, 

defined as a Federal, State, or local law 

enforcement agency on scene to assist 

the Coast Guard in enforcing the 

regulated area. Additionally, each 

person who received notice of a lawful 

order or direction issued by the Patrol 

Commander or Official Patrol shall obey 

the order or direction. The Patrol 

Commander or Official Patrol may, 

upon request, allow the transit or 

commercial vessels through the 

regulated area when it is safe to do so. 

If the Captain of the Port determines 

that the regulated area need not be 

enforced for the full duration stated in 

this notification, a Broadcast Notice to 

Mariners may be used to grant general 

permission to enter the regulated area. 

Dated: December 19, 2024. 

Jordan M. Baldueza, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port San Francisco. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31391 Filed 12–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

34 CFR Part 685 

[Docket ID ED–2023–OPE–0004] 

RIN 1840–AD81 

Improving Income Driven Repayment 

for the William D. Ford Federal Direct 

Loan Program and the Federal Family 

Education Loan (FFEL) Program; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Correcting amendment. 

SUMMARY: On July 10, 2023, the 

Department of Education (Department) 

published in the Federal Register final 

regulations amending regulations 

related to income-driven repayment. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 250 / Tuesday, December 31, 2024 / Rules and Regulations 107001 

This document corrects a technical error 

in the regulations. This document does 

not contain any substantive changes to 

the regulations. 

DATES: Effective December 31, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bruce Honer, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

5th Floor, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 987–0750. Email: 

Bruce.Honer@ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

10, 2023, the Department published in 

the Federal Register a final rule 

amending regulations related to incomedriven repayment (88 FR 43820). Those 

final regulations contained a technical 

error, which we are correcting. 

Specifically, with respect to 34 CFR 

685.209(k)(6)(i), we indicated in the 

preamble to the final rule in a response 

to public comment that we were 

modifying the regulations to exclude 

periods in which a borrower is in an inschool deferment from counting toward 

the borrower’s time to forgiveness, and 

we explained our reasons for doing so, 

see, e.g., 88 FR 43855, but we 

inadvertently omitted that change in the 

regulatory text. This notice corrects that 

inadvertent omission. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking, 

Negotiated Rulemaking, and Delayed 

Effective Date 

In accordance with the 

Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 

U.S.C. 553, the Department generally 

offers interested parties the opportunity 

to comment on proposed regulations. 

However, the APA provides that an 

agency is not required to conduct 

notice-and-comment rulemaking when 

the agency, for good cause, finds that 

notice and public comment thereon are 

impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 

to the public interest (5 U.S.C. 553(b)). 

There is good cause to waive 

rulemaking here as unnecessary. 

Rulemaking is ‘‘unnecessary’’ in those 

situations in which ‘‘the administrative 

rule is a routine determination, 

insignificant in nature and impact, and 

inconsequential to the industry and to 

the public.’’ Utility Solid Waste 

Activities Group v. EPA, 236 F.3d 749, 

755 (D.C. Cir. 2001), quoting U.S. 

Department of Justice, Attorney 

General’s Manual on the Administrative 

Procedure Act 31 (1947) and South 

Carolina v. Block, 558 F. Supp. 1004, 

1016 (D.S.C. 1983). The regulatory 

change in this document is necessary to 

properly and accurately reflect the 

outcome of the rulemaking process, by 

correcting a technical error: regulatory 

text that was proposed and explained 

but inadvertently was omitted from the 

final regulatory text. It reflects the 

substantive rule stated in the preamble, 

which was the product of the notice and 

comment process and does not establish 

any new substantive rule. Therefore, the 

Department has determined that 

publication of a proposed rule is 

unnecessary under 5 U.S.C. 553(b). 

In addition, under section 492 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA) (20 U.S.C. 1098a), all 

regulations proposed by the Department 

for programs authorized under title IV of 

the HEA are subject to negotiated 

rulemaking requirements. Section 

492(b)(2) of the HEA provides that 

negotiated rulemaking may be waived 

for good cause when doing so would be 

‘‘impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 

to the public interest.’’ There is likewise 

good cause to waive the negotiated 

rulemaking requirement in this case, 

since, as explained above, notice and 

comment rulemaking is unnecessary 

and has already been conducted. 

The APA generally requires that 

regulations be published at least 30 days 

before their effective date, unless the 

agency has good cause to implement its 

regulations sooner (5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3)). 

As previously stated, because the 

regulatory change corrects an error, 

there is good cause to waive the delayed 

effective date in the APA and make the 

correction effective as of the date of 

publication. 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

List of Subjects in 34 CFR Part 685 

Administrative practice and 

procedure; Colleges and universities; 

Education; Loan programs—education; 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements; Student aid; Vocational 

education. 

Nasser Paydar, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary 

Education. 

Accordingly, the Secretary corrects 34 

CFR part 685 by making the following 

correcting amendment: 

PART 685—WILLIAM D. FORD 

FEDERAL DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 685 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070g, 1087a, et seq., 

unless otherwise noted. 

■ 2. Section 685.209 is amended by 

revising paragraph (k)(6)(i) to read as 

follows: 

685.209 Income-driven repayment plans. 

* * * * * 

(k) * * * 

(6) * * * 

(i) A borrower may obtain credit 

toward forgiveness as defined in 

paragraph (k) of this section for any 

months in which a borrower was in a 

deferment or forbearance not listed in 

paragraph (k)(4)(iv) of this section, other 

than periods in an in-school deferment, 

by making an additional payment equal 

to or greater than their current IDR 

payment, including a payment of $0, for 

a deferment or forbearance that ended 

within 3 years of the additional 

repayment date and occurred after July 

1, 2024. 

* * * * * 

[FR Doc. 2024–31217 Filed 12–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

38 CFR Part 38 

RIN 2900–AS13 

Veterans Legacy Grants Program 

Improvements 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) amends its Veterans Legacy 

Grants Program (VLGP) regulations to 


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