Document ID: USCG-2023-0361-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Safety Zones; Fireworks Displays in the Fifth Coast Guard District— Philadelphia, PA
Posted Date: 2023-06-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 37471-37472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12266]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2023-0361]

Safety Zones; Fireworks Displays in the Fifth Coast Guard 
District--Philadelphia, PA

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notification of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the Delaware River, Philadelphia, 
PA Safety Zone for fireworks displays on two separate periods. The 
safety zone will first be enforced on June 21, 2023, and again, on July 
1, 2023. This is to provide for the safety of life on navigable 
waterways during each of two separate barge-based fireworks displays. 
Our regulation for marine events within the Fifth Coast Guard District 
identifies the regulated area for this event in Philadelphia, PA. 
During the enforcement period, no person or vessel may enter, remain 
in, or transit through the regulated area, and anyone in the vicinity 
must comply with directions from the Patrol Commander or any Official 
Patrol displaying a Coast Guard ensign.

DATES: The regulation at 33 CFR 165.506, for Philadelphia, PA, will be 
enforced for the location identified in entry 10 of table 1 to 
paragraph (h)(1) from 8:35 p.m. through 9:20 p.m. on June 21, 2023, or 
on a rain date of June 22, 2023, and from 9:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. on 
July 1, 2023, or on a rain date of July 2, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this 
notice of enforcement, you may call or email Petty Officer Dylan 
Caikowski, U.S. Coast Guard, Sector Delaware Bay, Waterways Management 
Division, telephone 215-271-4814, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone 
in table 1 to paragraph (h)(1) to 33 CFR 165.506, entry No. 10 for two 
periods, for two separate barge-based fireworks displays. The first 
enforcement period will be from 8:35 p.m. through 9:20 p.m. on June 21, 
2023, or on a rain date of June 22, 2023. The second enforcement period 
will be from 9:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. on July 1, 2023, or on a rain date 
of July 2, 2023. This action is necessary to ensure safety of life on 
the navigable waters of the United States immediately prior to, during, 
and immediately after

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fireworks displays. Our regulation for safety zones of fireworks 
displays within the Fifth Coast Guard District, table 1 to paragraph 
(h)(1) to 33 CFR 165.506, entry 10 specifies the location of the 
regulated area as all waters of the Delaware River adjacent to Penn's 
Landing, Philadelphia, PA, within a 500-yard radius of the fireworks 
barge position. The approximate position for the displays is latitude 
39[deg]56'52'' N, longitude 075[deg]08'09'' W. During the enforcement 
period, as reflected in Sec.  165.506(d), vessels may not enter, remain 
in, or transit through the safety zone unless authorized by the Captain 
of the Port or designated Coast Guard patrol personnel on-scene.
    In addition to this notice of enforcement in the Federal Register, 
the Coast Guard will provide notification of this enforcement period 
via Local Notice to Mariners and Broadcast Notice to Mariners.

    Dated: June 2, 2023.
Jonathan D. Theel,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Sector Delaware Bay.
[FR Doc. 2023-12266 Filed 6-7-23; 8:45 am]
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