[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 9659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3205]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 100

[CGD 95-059]
RIN 2115-AF17


Regattas and Marine Parades: Delay of Effective Date

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date and conforming amendments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from 
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled 
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on 
January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7702), this action temporarily delays for 60 
days the effective date of the rule entitled ``Regattas and Marine 
Parades,'' published in the Federal Register on January 9, 2001, 66 FR 
1580, and makes conforming amendments to reflect the effective date 
delay. That rule establishes the minimum time for submitting an 
application to hold a regatta or marine parade before the event is 
scheduled to take place.

DATES: The effective date of the final rule, amending 33 CFR part 100 
and withdrawing the interim rule published at 61 FR 33027, published in 
the Federal Register on January, 2001, at 66 FR 1580, is delayed for 60 
days, from March 12, 2001, until May 11, 2001. The conforming 
amendments are effective May 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carlton Perry, Project Manager, Office 
of Boating Safety, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (G-OPB-1/3100), 2100 
Second Street SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001, 202-267-0979.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To the extent that 5 U.S.C. 553 applies to 
this action, it is exempt from notice and comment because it 
constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). 
Alternatively, the Coast Guard's implementation of this action without 
opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon publication 
today in the Federal Register, is based on the good cause exceptions in 
5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3). Seeking public comment is 
impracticable, unnecessary, and contrary to the public interest. The 
temporary 60-day delay in effective date is necessary to give 
Department officials the opportunity for further review and 
consideration of new regulations, consistent with the Assistant to the 
President's memorandum of January 20, 2001. Given the imminence of the 
effective day, seeking prior public comment on this temporary delay 
would have been impractical, as well as contrary to the public 
interest, in the orderly promulgation and implementation of 
regulations. The imminence of the effective date is also good cause for 
making this action effective immediately upon publication.
    We are changing the dates in 33 CFR 100.15(d) and (e), Submission 
of application, to delay them for 60 days. The original dates were 
keyed to the effective date of the final rule. Therefore, because of 
the 60-day delay in the effective date of the final rule, we are 
changing, in Sec. 100.15(d) and (e), ``July 10, 2001,'' to ``September 
8, 2001,'' and, in Sec. 100.15(e), ``September 24, 2001,'' to 
``November 23, 2001.''

List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 100

    Marine safety, Navigation (water), Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Waterways.

    For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Coast Guard amends 
33 CFR part 100 as follows:

PART 100--SAFETY OF LIFE ON NAVIGABLE WATERS

    1. The authority citation for part 100 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1233; 49 CFR 1.46.


Sec. 100.15  [Amended]

    2. In Sec. 100.15, as amended at 66 FR 1582 effective May 11, 2001, 
in paragraph (d), remove ``July 10, 2001'' and add, in its place, 
``September 8, 2001''; and, in paragraph (e), remove ``July 10, 2001'' 
and add, in its place, ``September 8, 2001'' and remove ``September 24, 
2001'' and add, in its place, ``November 23, 2001''.

    Dated: January 26, 2001.
Terry M. Cross,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard Assistant Commandant for Operations.
[FR Doc. 01-3205 Filed 2-8-01; 8:45 am]
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