Document ID: USCG-2015-0955-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Regulations; Recurring Marine Events in the Seventh Coast Guard District
Posted Date: 2015-11-12T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 218 (Thursday, November 12, 2015)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 69873-69874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-28792]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 100.701

[Docket No. USCG-2015-0955] Special Local

Regulations; Recurring Marine Events in the Seventh Coast Guard 
District

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the regulation pertaining to the 
Savannah Harbor Boat Parade of Lights

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and Fireworks taking place on November 28, 2015. This action is 
necessary to ensure safety of life on navigable waters of the United 
States during the Savannah Harbor Boat Parade of Lights and Fireworks. 
During the enforcement period, the special local regulation establishes 
a regulated area which will prohibit all people and vessels from 
entering. No person or vessel may enter, transit through, anchor in, or 
remain within the area without permission of the Captain of the Port 
Savannah, or a designated representative.

DATES: The regulation in 33 CFR 100.701 Table 1 will be enforced from 5 
p.m. to 10 p.m. on November 28, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call or email MST1 Cliffton Hendry, Marine Safety Unit Savannah Office 
of Waterways Management, Coast Guard; telephone 912-652-4353, extension 
243, or email Cliffton.R.Hendry@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the special 
local regulation for the Savannah Parade of Lights and Fireworks in 33 
CFR 100.701 Table 1 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on November 28, 2015.
    Under the provisions of 33 CFR 100.701 no person or vessel may 
enter the regulated area, unless they receive permission to do so from 
the Captain of the Port Savannah, or a designated representative. This 
temporary rule creates a regulated area that will encompass the entire 
Savannah River in Savannah, GA beginning at the Talmadge Bridge near 
River Street, coordinates 32[deg]05'20'' N., 081[deg]05'56.3'' W., and 
proceeding down river to a line drawn at 146 degrees true from day 
board 62, approximate coordinates are: 32[deg]04'48.7'' N., 
081[deg]04'47.9'' W.
    Spectator vessels may safely transit outside the regulated area, 
but may not anchor, block, loiter in, or impede the transit of festival 
participants or official patrol 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 100.701 and 5 
U.S.C. 552(a). The Coast Guard will provide notice of the regulated 
areas by Local Notice to Mariners, Broadcast Notice to Mariners, and 
on-scene designated representatives.

    Dated: October 26, 2015.
A.M. Beach,
Commander, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port, Savannah.
[FR Doc. 2015-28792 Filed 11-10-15; 8:45 am]
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