Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 28 / Friday, February 9, 2001 / Rules and Regulations 9659

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Petty Officer Nicole Lavorgna, U. S.

Coast Guard MSO San Diego, San Diego,

California; Telephone: (619) 683–6495.

Discussion of Implementation. These

Special Local Regulations permit Coast

Guard or their designated representative

control of vessel traffic in order to

ensure the safety of spectator and

participant vessels. In accordance with

the regulations in 33 CFR 100.1102, no

persons or vessels shall block, anchor,

or loiter in the regulated area; nor shall

any person or vessel transit through the

regulated area, or otherwise impede the

transit of participant or official patrol

vessels in the regulated area, unless

cleared for such entry by or through an

official patrol vessel acting on behalf of

the Patrol Commander.

Dated: January 30, 2001.

D.W. Kunkel,

U.S. Coast Guard Commander, Eleventh Coast

Guard District, Acting.

[FR Doc. 01–3371 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

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.

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 § 100.15(d) and (e),

‘‘July 10, 2001,’’ to ‘‘September 8,

2001,’’ and, in § 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.

§ 100.15 [Amended]

2. In § 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]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 117

[CGD01–01–013]

Drawbridge Operation Regulations:

Chelsea River, MA

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of temporary deviation

from regulations.

SUMMARY: The Commander, First Coast

Guard District, has issued a temporary

deviation from the drawbridge operation

regulations governing the operation of

the Chelsea Street Bridge, at mile 1.2,

across the Chelsea River between East

Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.

This deviation allows the bridge owner

to keep the bridge in the closed position

from 6 a.m. on February 7, 2001 through

6 a.m. on February 8, 2001 and from 6

a.m. on February 21, 2001 through 6

a.m. on February 22, 2001. This action

is necessary to facilitate emergency

maintenance at the bridge.

DATES: This deviation is effective from

February 7, 2001 through February 8,

2001 and from February 21, 2001

through February 22, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

W. McDonald, Project Officer, First

Coast Guard District, at (617) 223–8364.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Chelsea Street Bridge, at mile 1.2, across

the Chelsea River, has a vertical

clearance of 9 feet at mean high water,

and 19 feet at mean low water in the

closed position. The existing

drawbridge operating regulations

require the bridge to open on signal at

all times.

The bridge owner, the City of Boston,

requested a temporary deviation from

the drawbridge operating regulations to

facilitate emergency structural

maintenance and repairs to the alternate

operating system at the bridge.

This deviation from the operating

regulations allows the bridge owner to