Document ID: USCG-2020-0435-0003
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Safety Zone; Patuxent and Patapsco Rivers, Solomons, MD, and Baltimore, MD
Posted Date: 2020-09-03T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 172 (Thursday, September 3, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 54946-54947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19639]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2020-0435]

Safety Zone; Patuxent and Patapsco Rivers, Solomons, MD, and 
Baltimore, MD

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is withdrawing its proposed rule to establish 
two separate temporary safety zones for certain waters of the Patuxent 
River at Solomons, MD, on September 5, 2020, (with an alternate date of 
September 6, 2020) and the Patapsco River (Inner Harbor) at Baltimore, 
MD, on October 2, 2020, (with no alternate date), during fireworks 
displays. The proposed rule is being withdrawn because it is no longer 
necessary. The event sponsors have cancelled the events.

DATES: As of September 3, 2020, the Coast Guard withdraws the proposed

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rule published August 7, 2020, (85 FR 47937).

ADDRESSES: To view the docket for this withdrawn rulemaking, go to 
https://www.regulations.gov, type USCG-2020-0435 in the ``SEARCH'' box 
and click ``SEARCH.'' Click on Open Docket Folder on the line 
associated with this rule.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this 
notice, call or email MST2 Shaun Landante, Waterways Management 
Division, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Maryland--National Capital Region; 
telephone 410-576-2570, email shaun.c.landante@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 7, 2020, we published a notice of proposed rulemaking 
entitled ``Safety Zone; Patuxent and Patapsco Rivers, Solomons, MD and 
Baltimore, MD (85 FR 47937). The rulemaking concerned the Coast Guard's 
proposal to establish temporary safety zones for certain waters of the 
Patuxent River, near Solomons, MD, effective 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on 
September 5, 2020, and Patapsco River (Inner Harbor), Baltimore, MD, 
effective 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 2, 2020. This action was 
necessary to provide for the safety of life on these waters during two 
separate fireworks displays. This rulemaking would have prohibited 
persons and vessels from entering the safety zones unless authorized by 
the Captain of the Port Maryland--National Capital Region or the Coast 
Guard Patrol Commander.

Withdrawal

    The proposed rule is being withdrawn due to safety zones no longer 
being necessary following a cancellation of both fireworks displays by 
the event sponsors.

Authority

    We issue this notice of withdrawal under the authority of 46 U.S.C. 
70034.

    Dated: August 31, 2020.
Joseph B. Loring,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Maryland--National 
Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 2020-19639 Filed 9-2-20; 8:45 am]
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