Document ID: USCG-2013-0048-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: SafetyZones: Underwater Escape Event; Seaport, East River, NY (Federal Register Publication) (Notice of enforcement of regulation.)
Posted Date: 2013-03-01T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 41 (Friday, March 1, 2013)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13811-13812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04731]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2013-0048]

Safety Zone; Underwater Escape Event, Seaport, East River, NY

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce a safety zone in the Captain of 
the Port New York Zone on the specified date and time. This action is 
necessary to ensure the safety of participants, vessels and spectators 
from hazards associated with the escape artist event and associated 
pyrotechnics display. During the enforcement period, no person or 
vessel may enter the safety zone without permission of the Captain of 
the Port (COTP).

DATES: The regulation for the safety zone described in 33 CFR 165.160 
will be enforced March 24, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call or email Lieutenant Junior Grade Kristopher Kesting, Coast Guard; 
telephone 718-354-4154, email Kristopher.R.Kesting@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone 
listed in 33 CFR 165.160 on the specified date and time as indicated in 
Table 1 below. This regulation was published in the Federal Register on 
November 9, 2011 (76 FR 69614).

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                                 Table 1
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1. Merlini Underwater Escape...........   Launch site: All
                                          waters of the East River south
                                          of the Brooklyn Bridge and
                                          north of a line drawn from the
                                          southwest corner of Pier 3,
                                          Brooklyn, to the southeast
                                          corner of Pier 6 Manhattan.
Seaport, East River Safety Zone........   Date: March 24, 2013.
33 CFR 165.160(4.4)....................   Time: 6:30 p.m.-8:30
                                          p.m.
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    Under the provisions of 33 CFR 165.160, a vessel may not enter the 
regulated area unless given express permission from the COTP or the 
designated representative. Spectator vessels may transit outside the 
regulated area but may not anchor, block, loiter in, or impede the 
transit of other vessels. The Coast Guard may be assisted by other 
Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies in enforcing this 
regulation.
    This notice is issued under authority of 33 CFR 165.160(a) and 5 
U.S.C. 552(a). In addition to this notice in the Federal Register, the 
Coast Guard will provide mariners with advanced notification of 
enforcement periods via the Local Notice to Mariners and marine 
information broadcasts. If the COTP determines that the regulated area 
need not be enforced for the full duration stated in this notice, a 
Broadcast Notice to Mariners may be used to grant general permission to 
enter the regulated area.

    Dated: February 1, 2013.
G. P. Hitchen,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Captain of the Port New York.
[FR Doc. 2013-04731 Filed 2-28-13; 8:45 am]
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