Document ID: USCG-2019-0049-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Special Local Regulations; Marine Events Within the Fifth Coast Guard District
Posted Date: 2019-02-12T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 12, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 3301-3302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02040]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 100

[Docket No. USCG-2019-0049]

Special Local Regulations; Marine Events Within the Fifth Coast 
Guard District

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce special local regulations for two 
events, the Cambridge Classic Powerboat Race on May 18, 2019, and May 
19, 2019, and the Oxford Funathlon swim event on June 1, 2019 (if 
necessary, rescheduled to June 2, 2019), to provide for the safety of 
life on navigable waterways during these events. Our regulation for 
marine events within the Fifth Coast Guard District identifies the 
regulated area for each event. During the enforcement periods, the 
Coast Guard patrol commander or designated marine event patrol may 
forbid and control the movement of all vessels in the regulated area.

DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 100.501 will be enforced for the 
Cambridge Classic Powerboat Race regulated area listed in item b.21 in 
the Table to Sec.  100.501 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 18, 2019, 
and from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 19, 2019.
    The regulations in 33 CFR 100.501 will be enforced for the 
regulated area listed in item b.14 in the Table to Sec.  100.501 from 
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on June 1, 2019, and if necessary, due to 
inclement weather, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on June 2, 2019. The 
regulated area is being enforced for the Oxford Funathlon.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this 
notice of enforcement, call or email Mr. Ron Houck, U.S. Coast Guard 
Sector Maryland-National Capital Region (WWM Division); telephone 410-
576-2674, email Ronald.L.Houck@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard was notified by the 
Cambridge Power Boat Racing Association, Inc. on January 31, 2019, 
through submission of a marine event application, that due to a 
scheduling change, a change of dates is necessary to the dates 
previously published in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for the 
annually scheduled Cambridge Classic Powerboat Race, as listed in the 
Table to 33 CFR 100.501. This year, the Coast Guard will enforce the 
special local regulations in 33 CFR 100.501 for the Cambridge Classic 
Powerboat Race regulated area from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 18, 
2019 and from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 19, 2019. Our regulation 
for marine events within the Fifth Coast Guard District, Sec.  100.501, 
specifies the location of the regulated area for the Cambridge Classic 
Powerboat Race, which encompasses portions of Hambrooks Bay and the 
Choptank River, at Cambridge, MD.
    The Coast Guard was notified by Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association and 
Therapies For Inherited Neuropathies, Inc. on September 19, 2018, 
through submission of a marine event application, that it that it will 
be conducting the swim portion of the Oxford Funathlon from 9:30 a.m. 
until 10:30 a.m. on June 1, 2019, and if necessary, due to inclement 
weather, from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. on June 2, 2019. The swim 
event consists of approximately 40 participants competing on a 
designated 1300-meter course that starts at the ferry dock at Bellevue, 
MD, and finishes at the Tred Avon Yacht Club at Oxford, MD. The date 
and location proposed for this event is the same as those for the 
Oxford-Bellevue Sharkfest Swim event, sponsored by EnviroSports 
Productions, Inc. The Oxford Funathlon is being held in place of the 
Oxford-Bellevue Sharkfest Swim. The Coast Guard was notified by 
EnviroSports Productions, Inc. on December 20, 2018, that it will no 
longer be holding the Oxford-Bellevue Sharkfest Swim event in 2019 or 
any future year. Hazards associated with the Oxford Funathlon swim 
event

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include participants swimming within and adjacent to the designated 
navigation channel and interfering with vessels intending to operate 
within that channel, as well as swimming within approaches to local 
public and private marinas and public boat facilities. The Coast Guard 
will enforce the special local regulations in 33 CFR 100.501 for the 
Oxford Funathlon swim event regulated area from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 
on June 1, 2019, and if necessary, due to inclement weather, from 8:30 
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on June 2, 2019. Our regulation for marine events 
within the Fifth Coast Guard District, Sec.  100.501, specifies the 
location of the regulated area for the Oxford-Bellevue Sharkfest Swim, 
which encompasses portions of the Tred Avon River, between Bellevue, MD 
and Oxford, MD.
    This action is being taken to provide for the safety of life on 
navigable waterways during these events. As specified in Sec.  
100.501(c), during the enforcement periods, the Coast Guard patrol 
commander or designated marine event patrol may forbid and control the 
movement of all vessels in the regulated area. Vessel operators may 
request permission to enter and transit through a regulated area by 
contacting the Coast Guard patrol commander on VHF-FM channel 16.
    This notice of enforcement is issued under authority of 33 CFR 
100.501(f) and 5 U.S.C. 552(a). In addition to this notice of 
enforcement in the Federal Register, the Coast Guard plans to provide 
notification of these enforcement periods on scene and via the Local 
Notice to Mariners and marine information broadcasts.

    Dated: February 7, 2019.
Joseph B. Loring,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Maryland-National 
Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 2019-02040 Filed 2-11-19; 8:45 am]
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