Document ID: USCG-2019-0370-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Safety Zones; Fireworks Displays in the Fifth Coast Guard District
Posted Date: 2019-05-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 28, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 24391-24392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11061]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2019-0370]

Safety Zones; Fireworks Displays in 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 the Penn's Landing, Delaware 
River, Philadelphia, PA, safety zone as described in agency regulations 
on various dates from late May 2019 through the end of July 2019. This 
action is necessary to ensure safety of life on the navigable waters of 
the United States immediately prior to, during, and immediately after 
the fireworks displays. During the enforcement periods, vessels may not 
enter, remain in, or transit through the safety zones during these 
enforcement periods unless authorized by the Captain of the Port or 
designated Coast Guard patrol personnel on scene.

DATES: The safety zone in section (a), row (16) of the table to 33 CFR 
165.506 will be enforced from 8:30 p.m. through 10:00 p.m. on each of 
the following dates in 2019: May 25th, May 30th, June 29th, and July 
1st (with July 2nd or July 3rd as alternate dates for inclement 
weather).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this 
notice of enforcement, you may call or email Petty Officer Thomas 
Welker, U.S. Coast Guard, Sector Delaware Bay, Waterways Management 
Division, telephone 215-271-4814, email Thomas.J.Welker@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone 
as described in section (a), row (16) of the table to 33 CFR 165.506 
from 8:30 p.m. through 10:00 p.m. on each of the following dates in 
2019: May 25th, May 30th, June 29th, and July 1st (with July 2nd or 
July 3rd as alternate dates for inclement weather). This action is 
necessary to ensure safety of life on the navigable waters of the 
United States immediately prior to, during, and immediately after the 
fireworks displays. Our regulation for safety zones of fireworks 
displays within the Fifth Coast Guard District, table to Sec.  165.506, 
section (a), row (16), specifies the location of the regulated area as 
all waters of the Delaware River adjacent to Penn's Landing, 
Philadelphia, PA, within 500 yards of a fireworks launch site at 
approximate position latitude 39[deg]56'49'' N, longitude 
075[deg]08'11'' W. As reflected in Sec.  165.506(d), vessels may not 
enter, remain in, or transit through the safety zone during the 
enforcement period 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 the enforcement periods 
via broadcast notice to mariners.

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    Dated: May 22, 2019.
Scott E. Anderson,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port, Delaware Bay.
[FR Doc. 2019-11061 Filed 5-24-19; 8:45 am]
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