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current Ebola virus disease (Ebola) 

epidemic is the largest in history, 

affecting multiple countries in West 

Africa. Ebola, previously known as 

Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a rare and 

deadly disease caused by infection with 

one of the Ebola virus strains. Ebola can 

cause disease in humans, nonhuman 

primates (monkeys, gorillas, and 

chimpanzees), and other animals. Ebola 

is caused by infection with a virus of the 

family Filoviridae, genus Ebolavirus. 

There are five identified Ebola virus 

species found in several African 

countries. The current outbreak is due 

to Ebola virus (Zaire ebolavirus) in 

Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. 

In order to assist in preventing the 

further introduction and spread of this 

communicable disease in the United 

States, CBP, in coordination with other 

DHS components and offices, the CDC, 

and other agencies charged with 

protecting the homeland and the 

American public, is currently 

implementing enhanced screening 

protocols at five U.S. airports that 

receive the largest number of travelers 

from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. 

To ensure that all travelers with recent 

travel to, from, or through the affected 

countries are screened, CBP directs all 

flights to the U.S. carrying such persons 

to arrive at the five airports where the 

enhanced screening procedures are 

being implemented. While CBP 

anticipates working with the air carriers 

in an endeavor to identify potential 

travelers from the affected countries 

prior to boarding, air carriers will 

remain obligated to comply with the 

requirement of this notice, particularly 

in the event that travelers who have 

recently traveled to, from, or through 

the affected countries are boarded on 

flights bound for the U.S. 

Notice of Arrival Restrictions 

Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons 

Who Have Recently Traveled to, From, 

or Through Certain Ebola-Stricken 

Countries 

Pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1433(c) and 19 

CFR 122.32, CBP has the authority to 

limit the location where all aircraft 

entering the U.S. from abroad may land. 

Under this authority, I hereby direct all 

operators of aircraft carrying persons to 

the U.S. whose recent travel included 

Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone to land 

at one of the following five airports: 

John F. Kennedy International Airport 

(JFK), New York; Newark Liberty 

International Airport (EWR), New 

Jersey; Washington Dulles International 

Airport (IAD), Virginia; Chicago O’Hare 

International Airport (ORD), Illinois; 

and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta 

International Airport (ATL), Georgia. 

This list of affected countries and 

airports may be modified by an updated 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by posting an advisory to follow at 

www.cbp.gov. The restrictions will 

remain in effect until superseded, 

modified, or revoked by publication in 

the Federal Register or posting on 

www.cbp.gov. 

Dated: October 21, 2014. 

R. Gil Kerlikowske, 

Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25358 Filed 10–21–14; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 9111–14–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 117 

[Docket No. USCG–2014–0934] 

Drawbridge Operation Regulation; 

Lake Washington, Seattle, WA 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of deviation from 

drawbridge regulation. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard has issued a 

temporary deviation from the operating 

schedule that governs the Evergreen 

Point Floating Bridge (State Route 520) 

across Lake Washington at Seattle, WA. 

The deviation is necessary to 

accommodate vehicular traffic attending 

football games at Husky Stadium at the 

University of Washington, Seattle, 

Washington. This deviation allows the 

bridge to remain in the closed position 

two hours before and two hours after 

each game. Note that the game times for 

the games scheduled at Husky Stadium 

have not yet been determined due to 

NCAA television scheduling. 

DATES: This deviation is effective from 

October 25, 2014 through November 22, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: The docket for this 

deviation, [USCG–2014–0934] is 

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

Type the docket number in the 

‘‘SEARCH’’ box and click ‘‘SEARCH.’’ 

Click on Open Docket Folder on the line 

associated with this deviation. You may 

also visit the Docket Management 

Facility in Room W12–140 on the 

ground floor of the Department of 

Transportation West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this temporary 

deviation, call or email Steven M. 

Fischer, Bridge Administrator, 

Thirteenth District, Coast Guard; 

telephone 206–220–7282, email 

Steven.M.Fischer3@uscg.mil. If you 

have questions on viewing the docket, 

call Cheryl Collins, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone 202–366– 

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Washington State Department of 

Transportation, on behalf of the 

University of Washington Police 

Department, has requested that the 

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (State 

Route 520) remain closed to vessel 

traffic, and need not open to vessel 

traffic to facilitate timely movement of 

pre-game and post-game football traffic. 

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge 

provides three navigational openings for 

vessel passage, the movable floating 

span, subject to this closure, and two 

fixed navigational openings; one on the 

east end of the bridge and one on the 

west end. The fixed navigational 

opening on the east end of the bridge 

provides a horizontal clearance of 150 

feet and a vertical clearance of 57 feet 

(the east end navigation channel is 

currently blocked due to construction). 

The opening on the west end of the 

bridge provides a horizontal clearance 

of 170 feet and a vertical clearance of 45 

feet. These vertical clearance 

measurements are made in reference to 

the Mean Water Level of Lake 

Washington. Vessels which do not 

require a bridge opening may continue 

to transit beneath the bridge during 

these closure periods. Under normal 

conditions this bridge opens on signal if 

at least two hours notice is given in 33 

CFR 117.1049. 

This deviation period will cover the 

dates October 25, 2014, November 8, 

2014, and November 22, 2014. The 

times for the closures will be 

determined and announced in the Coast 

Guard’s Local Notice to Mariners and 

Broadcast Notice to Mariners as they 

become available. Due to NCAA 

television scheduling, the times for the 

games are not currently available. 

The deviation allows the center span 

of Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (State 

Route 520) to remain in the closed 

position and need not open for maritime 

traffic for two hours before and after the 

University of Washington football game 

on October 25, 2014, November 8, 2014, 

and November 22, 2014. The bridge 

shall operate in accordance to 33 CFR 

117.1049 at all other times. Waterway 

usage on the Lake Washington Ship 

Canal ranges from commercial tug and 

barge to small pleasure craft. 


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The bridge will be able to open for 

emergencies and there is no immediate 

alternate route for vessels to pass. The 

Coast Guard will also inform the users 

of the waterways through our Local and 

Broadcast Notices to Mariners of the 

change in operating schedule for the 

bridge so that vessels can arrange their 

transits to minimize any impact caused 

by the temporary deviation. 

In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e), 

the drawbridges must return to its 

regular operating schedule immediately 

at the end of the designated time period. 

This deviation from the operating 

regulations is authorized under 33 CFR 

117.35. 

Dated: October 10, 2014. 

Steven M. Fischer, 

Bridge Administrator, Thirteenth Coast Guard 

District. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25271 Filed 10–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 165 

[Docket No. USCG–2014–0849] 

RIN 1625–AA00 

Safety Zone; Ordinance Removal; 

Saipan Harbor, CNMI 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Temporary final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is 

establishing a safety zone in support of 

World War II ordinance disposal found 

southeast of Buoy 3 in Saipan Harbor. 

This safety zone will encompass a 140 

yard radius centered around a blue and 

white buoy, located at approximately 15 

degrees 13.370 minutes North Latitude, 

145 degrees 42.256 minutes East 

Longitude, southeast of Buoy 3 in 

Saipan Harbor. (NAD 1983) 

DATES: This rule is effective without 

actual notice from October 23, 2014 

until December 18, 2014. For the 

purposes of enforcement, actual notice 

will be used from September 19, 2014, 

until October 23, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Documents indicated in this 

preamble are part of docket USCG– 

2014–0849. To view documents 

mentioned in this preamble as being 

available in the docket, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, type the docket 

number in the ‘‘SEARCH’’ box and click 

‘‘SEARCH.’’ Click on Open Docket 

Folder on the line associated with this 

rulemaking. You may also visit the 

Docket Management Facility in Room 

W12–140 on the ground floor of the 

Department of Transportation West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. (EST), Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this temporary 

rule, call Chief Kristina Gauthier, U.S. 

Coast Guard Sector Guam at (671) 355– 

4866. If you have any questions on 

viewing or submitting material to the 

docket, call Cheryl Collins Program 

Manager, Docket Operations, at (202) 

366–9826 or 1–800–647–5527. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Acronyms 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

FR Federal Register 

NPRM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

COTP Captain of the Port 

A. Regulatory History and Information 

The Coast Guard is issuing this 

temporary final rule without prior 

notice and opportunity to comment 

pursuant to authority under section 4(a) 

of the Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA) (5 U.S.C. 553(b)). This provision 

authorizes an agency to issue a rule 

without prior notice and opportunity to 

comment when the agency for good 

cause finds that those procedures are 

‘‘impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 

to the public interest.’’ Under 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(B), the Coast Guard finds that 

good cause exists for not publishing a 

notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

with respect to this rule because doing 

so would be impracticable. The Coast 

Guard received notice of the ordinance 

on September 10, 2014. Due to the 

emergent nature of this incident, the 

Coast Guard did not have time to issue 

a notice of proposed rulemaking. The 

ordinance was discovered during 

operations related to the grounded M/V 

PAUL RUSS which was covered under 

the temporary final rule USCG–2013– 

0203. 

Under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), for the same 

reason mentioned above, the Coast 

Guard finds that good cause exists for 

making this rule effective less than 30 

days after publication in the Federal 

Register. Due to the late notice and 

inherent danger in removal of 

ordinance, and a grounded vessel, 

delaying the effective period of this 

safety zone would be contrary to the 

public interest. 

B. Basis and Purpose 

The legal basis for this rule is the 

Coast Guard’s authority to establish 

regulated navigation areas and other 

limited access areas: 33 U.S.C. 1231; 33 

CFR 1.05–1, 6.04–6, 160.5; and 

Department of Homeland Security 

Delegation No. 0170.1. 

A safety zone is a water area, shore 

area, or water and shore area, for which 

access is limited to authorized person, 

vehicles, or vessels for safety or 

environmental purposes. The purpose of 

this rulemaking is to protect mariners 

from the potential hazards associated 

with salvage operations. Approaching 

too close to such operations could 

potentially expose the mariner to 

hazardous conditions. 

C. Discussion of Rule 

In order to protect the public from the 

hazards associated with the ordinance 

and subsequent removal operations, the 

Coast Guard is establishing a temporary 

safety zone, effective from September 

19, 2014 until December 18, 2014. The 

enforcement period for this rule is from 

September 19, 2014 until December 18, 

2014. 

The safety zone is located within the 

Guam COTP Zone (See 33 CFR 3.70–15), 

and will cover all waters bounded by a 

circle with a 140-yard radius centered 

around the ordinance, located at 

approximately 15 degrees 13.370 North 

Latitude, 145 degrees 42.256 minutes 

East Longitude, from the surface of the 

water to the ocean floor. 

The general regulations governing 

safety zones contained in 33 CFR 165.23 

apply. Entry into, transit through or 

anchoring within this zone is prohibited 

unless authorized by the COTP or a 

designated representative thereof. Any 

Coast Guard commissioned, warrant, or 

petty officer, and any other COTP 

representative permitted by law, may 

enforce the zone. The COTP may waive 

any of the requirements of this rule for 

any person, vessel, or class of vessel 

upon finding that application of the 

safety zone is unnecessary or 

impractical for the purpose of maritime 

safety. Vessels or persons violating this 

rule may be subject to the penalties set 

forth in 33 U.S.C. 1232 and/or 50 U.S.C. 

192. 

D. Regulatory Analyses 

We developed this rule after 

considering numerous statutes and 

executive orders related to rulemaking. 

Below we summarize our analyses 

based on these statutes and executive 

orders. 

1. Regulatory Planning and Review 

This rule is not a significant 

regulatory action under section 3(f) of 

Executive Order 12866, Regulatory 

Planning and Review, as supplemented 

by Executive Order 13563, Improving 

Regulation and Regulatory Review, and 

does not require an assessment of 


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