30418 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 97 / Thursday, May 19, 2022 / Rules and Regulations 

Dated: May 11, 2022. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10656 Filed 5–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 117 

[Docket No. USCG–2022–0237] 

Drawbridge Operation Regulation; 

Keweenaw Waterway, Between 

Houghton and Hancock, MI 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of temporary deviation 

from regulations; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has issued a 

temporary deviation from the operating 

schedule that governs the US41 Bridge, 

mile 16.0, over the Keweenaw 

Waterway between the towns of 

Houghton and Hancock, Michigan. The 

Michigan Department of Transportation 

(MDOT), who owns and operates the 

bridge, has requested a deviation that 

will test a change to the drawbridge 

operation schedule to determine 

whether a permanent change to the 

schedule is needed. The Coast Guard is 

seeking comments from the public 

regarding these proposed changes. 

DATES: This deviation is effective from 

7 a.m. on May 26, 2022 through 7 p.m. 

on September 6, 2022. Comments and 

related material must reach the Coast 

Guard on or before November 1, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2022–0237 using Federal Decision 

Making Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. 

See the ‘‘Public Participation and 

Request for Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this proposed 

rule, call or email Mr. Lee D. Soule, 

Bridge Management Specialist, Ninth 

Coast Guard District; telephone 216– 

902–6085, email Lee.D.Soule@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background, Purpose and Legal Basis 

The US41 Bridge, mile 16.0, over the 

Keweenaw Waterway (the bridge) 

between the towns of Houghton and 

Hancock, Michigan, is owned and 

operated by MDOT and is the only 

crossing over the waterway. The bridge 

is a combination highway and railroad 

double deck lift bridge that provides a 

horizontal clearance of 7-feet in the 

down position, 103-feet in the open 

positon, and 35-feet in the intermediate 

position above low water datum (LWD) 

based on International Great Lakes 

Datum of 1985 (IGLD85). 

The Keweenaw Waterway divides the 

Keweenaw Peninsula and is located in 

the middle of the south shore of Lake 

Superior, a Great Lake known for 

hazardous weather conditions. The 

federal government improved the 

Keweenaw Waterway in 1861 to 

accommodate interstate commerce; the 

Keweenaw Waterway acts as a harbor of 

safe refuge for vessels caught in bad 

weather and is the halfway between 

Duluth, Minnesota and Sault Ste. Marie, 

Michigan. Commercial vessels, 

including some over 700-feet in length, 

and powered and non-powered 

recreational vessels utilize the 

waterway. The passenger vessel 

RANGER III operates from the east side 

of the US41 Bridge to Isle Royal and is 

operated by the National Park Service 

with a capacity of 128-passengers. A 

U.S. Coast Guard Station is located at 

the far west end of the waterway. 

MDOT has requested a new operating 

schedule to relieve commuter and 

commercial vehicle traffic congestion at 

the bridge on weekdays; the new 

schedule will not apply to federal 

holidays that fall on weekdays. Traffic 

data impacted by COVID–19 restrictions 

would not provide the public with an 

accurate assessment of the traffic 

conditions at the bridge and have 

intentionally have not been considered. 

The following data from the 2017 

through 2019 drawtender logs and 

traffic data from July 9 through July 15, 

2019 was provided by MDOT. We have 

received a request to consider restricting 

the bridge openings at this location at 

least twice a year since 2016. The 

comments and data received during this 

test deviation will prove or disprove the 

need for restricted openings. 

MDOT provided vehicle-crossing data 

for a five-day workweek and we 

discovered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the 

traffic at the bridge steadily increases 

then decreases without definitive spikes 

at morning, noon, and evening, as 

shown in the below graph. 

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We have placed a color copy of this 

graph and the three graphs that follow 

in the docket. See instructions in 

Section II for viewing items in the 

docket. 

MDOT provided drawtender logs for 

three years: 2017, 2018, and 2019 to 

show average opening requests and 

boating trends. 


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The temporary deviation is necessary 

to gather data on a possible permanent 

solution: 

From 7 a.m. on May 26, 2022 through 

7 p.m. on September 6, 2022 the US41 

Bridge, mile 16.0, over the Kewanee 

Waterway, shall open on signal: Except 

that from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday 

through Friday, less federal holidays, 

the draw only need to be opened on the 

the hour and half-hour for any vessel. 

Between midnight and 4 a.m. the draw 

shall be placed in the intermediate 

position and opened if a 2-hour advance 

notice is given. The bridge shall be 

opened on signal to pass any vessel over 

300 feet in length or at any time 5 or 

more vessels gather at the bridge 

requesting an opening. All other 

provisions of 33 CFR 117.635 shall 

remain in effect. 

The Coast Guard will also inform the 

users of the waterways through our 

Local Broadcast Notices to Mariners of 

the change in operating schedule for the 

bridge so that vessel operators can 

arrange their transits to minimize any 

impact caused by the temporary 

deviation. 

In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e), 

the drawbridge must return to its regular 

operating schedule immediately at the 

end of the effective period of this 

temporary deviation. This deviation 

from the operating regulations is 

authorized under 33 CFR 117.35. 

II. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We view public participation as 

essential to effective rulemaking, and 

will consider all comments and material 

received during the comment period. 

Your comment can help shape the 

outcome of this rulemaking. If you 

submit a comment, please include the 

docket number for this rulemaking, 

indicate the specific section of this 

document to which each comment 

applies, and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. 

We encourage you to submit 

comments through the Federal Decision 

Making Portal at https://

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

https://www.regulations.gov, type 

USCG–2022–0237 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. 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 

rule 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 will only 

post comments that address the topic of 

the proposed rule. 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). 

M.J. Johnston, 

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

Ninth Coast Guard District. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10564 Filed 5–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2019–0215; FRL–8999–03– 

R5] 

Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Partial 

Approval and Partial Disapproval for 

Infrastructure SIP Requirements for 

the 2015 Ozone NAAQS; Correction 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: This action corrects an 

omission of timely comment and 

response in the September 28, 2021, 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

partial approval/partial disapproval of 

elements of a State Implementation Plan 

(SIP) submission from Michigan to 

address the infrastructure requirements 

of section 110 of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA) for the 2015 ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS). Accordingly, this action 

amends the effective date of the final 

approval to reflect EPA’s current 

response to the previously omitted 

comment. 

DATES: This final rule is effective on 

May 19, 2022. 


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