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with maritime industry groups and local 

harbor safety committees and through 

public surveys. Information gathered 

indicates that the maritime public finds 

the new mobile and web access valuable 

and worthwhile. Mariners also told the 

Coast Guard that they did not find the 

existing routine VHF broadcasts to be 

very valuable; rather, the broadcasts, 

which are typically announced on VHF 

channel 16 and then switched to 

channel 22, were frequently noted as 

bothersome, because they tended to 

crowd out more valuable marine radio 

traffic on both VHF channels, creating 

‘‘radio clutter.’’ 

The Coast Guard is now considering 

phasing out routine VHF broadcasts in 

locations where digital mobile and web 

access is made available, and is seeking 

public comment. Before broadcasts in 

any particular location are phased out, 

mariners can anticipate that the Coast 

Guard will thoroughly announce and 

remind mariners about how to access 

the information by the new web and 

mobile methods. Only routine 

broadcasts are being considered for 

phase out; the Coast Guard will 

continue to choose to broadcast urgent 

and safety broadcasts on VHF as 

necessary. 

This notice is issued under the 

authority of 14 U.S.C. 504(a)(16) and 5 

U.S.C. 552(a). 

Dated: July 6, 2021. 

Michael D. Emerson, 

Director, Marine Transportation Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15059 Filed 7–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2020–0278] 

Port Access Route Study: Northern 

New York Bight 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of draft 

report and public meeting; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: From June 29, 2020, through 

June 28, 2021, the Coast Guard 

conducted the Northern New York Bight 

Port Access Route Study (NNYBPARS) 

and is now requesting your comments 

on a draft version of the study report. 

The goal of the study is to evaluate the 

adequacy of existing vessel routing 

measures and determine whether 

additional vessel routing measures are 

necessary for port approaches to New 

York and New Jersey and international 

and domestic transit areas in the First 

District area of responsibility. To 

accomplish this goal, the Coast Guard 

has undertaken measures to determine 

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, existing and potential 

anchorage areas, changing vessel traffic 

patterns, effects of weather, or 

navigational difficulty. We seek your 

comments on the content and 

development of the report. 

DATES: Your comments and related 

material must reach the Coast Guard on 

or before August 30, 2021. 

Although the Coast Guard prefers and 

highly encourages all comments and 

related material be submitted directly to 

the electronic docket, a public meeting 

will be held via webinar and 

teleconference to provide an 

opportunity for oral comments about the 

NNYBPARS draft report on Friday, July 

30, 2020, beginning at 9 a.m. EST. 

Additional public meetings dates may 

be added. Information as to the date, 

time, and location of these in person 

public meetings will be posted at 

https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ 

?pageName=PARS by July 23, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2020–0278 using the Federal portal at 

https://www.regulations.gov. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further instructions on submitting 

comments. 

A virtual public meeting on Friday, 

July 30, 2020, beginning at 9 a.m. EST, 

will be held via webinar and 

teleconference. 

Access information for this virtual 

public meeting will be posted at https:// 

www.navcen.uscg.gov/ 

?pageName=PARS by July 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, 

contact Mr. Craig Lapiejko, Waterways 

Management at First Coast Guard 

District, telephone (617) 223–8351, 

email craig.d.lapiejko@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 

IMO International Maritime Organization 

MTS Marine Transportation System 

NAD83 North American Datum of 1983 

NNYB Northern New York Bight 

PARS Port Access Route Study 

PWSA Ports and Waterways Safety Act 

TSS Traffic Separation Scheme 

USCG United States Coast Guard 

II. Background and Purpose 

The Ports and Waterways Safety Act 

(46 U.S.C. 70003(c)) requires the Coast 

Guard to conduct a Port Access Route 

Study (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 

coordinates with Federal, State, local, 

tribal and foreign state agencies (as 

appropriate) to consider the views of 

maritime community representatives, 

environmental groups, and other 

interested 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 

construction and operation of renewable 

energy facilities and other uses of the 

Atlantic Ocean in the study area. 

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 new 

study supplements and builds upon the 

ACPARS by conducting a series of 

PARS to examine ports along the 

Atlantic Coast that are economically 

significant or support military or critical 

national defense operations and related 

international entry and departure transit 

areas that are integral to the safe and 

efficient and unimpeded flow of 

commerce to/from major international 

shipping lanes. The NNYBPARS is one 

of several studies being conducted. 

On June 29, 2020, the First Coast 

Guard District published a notice of 

study and public meetings; request for 

comments entitled ‘‘Port Access Route 

Study (PARS): Northern New York 

Bight’’ in the Federal Register (85 FR 

38907) to evaluate the adequacy of 

existing vessel routing measures and 

determine whether additional vessel 

routing measures are necessary for port 

approaches to New York and New Jersey 

and international and domestic transit 

areas in the First District area of 

responsibility. 

The public was afforded a 60-day 

comment period, and two virtual public 

meetings were held via teleconference 

and webinar to receive public input. 

The Coast Guard received 25 comments 

to this document in response to our 

Federal Register Notice, public 

meetings and other outreach efforts. All 

comments and supporting documents to 

this document are available in a public 


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docket and can be viewed at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

On April 12, 2021, we published a 

supplemental notice of study; request 

for comments entitled ‘‘Port Access 

Route Study (PARS): Northern New 

York Bight’’ in the Federal Register (86 

FR 18996) seeking additional 

information. 

The public was afforded a 30-day 

comment period. The Coast Guard 

received five comments to this 

document in response to our Federal 

Register Notice, and other outreach 

efforts. All comments and supporting 

documents to this document are 

available in a public docket and can be 

viewed at http://www.regulations.gov. 

During both comment periods a total 

of 30 comments were submitted by 

representatives of the maritime 

community, wind energy developers, 

non-governmental organizations, 

Federal and State governmental 

agencies, and private citizens. 

Of the thirty comments, fourteen 

requested additional routing measures 

be established, twelve expressed 

concerns that wind farm installations 

will negatively affect vessel’s marine 

radar performance, eight requested 

setback/buffer zones, six requested 

anchorages be designated, six requested 

additional meetings, three requested 

alteration of existing routing measures, 

and three requested expanding Vessel 

Traffic Services. 

A synopsis of the comments and 

copies of the Coast Guard’s Public 

outreach can be found in the report. The 

Coast Guard is opening this third and 

final NNYBPARS comment period to 

facilitate transparent public discussions 

on the information above as well as the 

draft report findings to date. 

III. Information Requested 

Do you agree or disagree with the 

draft report’s recommendations, propose 

actions, or continued actions, and if so, 

why? 

V. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to comment on the 

content and development of the report 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at https://www.regulations.gov. 

A. Viewing the draft version of the 

report: To view the draft version of the 

NNYBPARS report in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and insert 

‘‘USCG–2020–0278’’ in the ‘‘search 

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

looking of the document entitled 

‘‘DRAFT REPORT Northern New York 

Bight PARS June 29, 2021’’ under the 

document type ‘‘Supporting & Related 

Material.’’ 

B. Submitting Comments: To submit 

your comment online, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and insert 

‘‘USCG–2020–0278’’ 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 

• 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 and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. For more about privacy and 

submissions to the docket in response to 

this document, see DHS’s eRulemaking 

System of Records notice (85 FR 14226, 

March 11, 2020). 

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. 

C. How do I find and browse for 

posted comments on Regulations.gov. 

On the previous version of 

Regulations.gov, users browse 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–2020–0278’’ 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. 

D. 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. 

E. 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). 

VI. Future Actions 

Any comments received will be 

reviewed and considered before a final 

version of the NNYBPARS 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). 

Dated: June 28, 2021. 

T.G. Allan Jr., 

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

First Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14757 Filed 7–13–21; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7037–N–03] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Comment Request; 

Implementation of the Housing for 

Older Persons Act of 1995 (HOPA), 

OMB Control No: 2529–0046 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal 

Opportunity, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The proposed reinstatement, 

without change, of an expired, 

previously approved information 

collection requirement established 

under the Housing for Older Persons 

Act of 1995 (HOPA) will be submitted 

to the Office of Management and Budget 


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