Document ID: USCG-2010-0648-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Notice
Title: Safety Zones: Chicago Harbor, Navy Pier Southeast, Chicago IL (Federal Register Publication)
Posted Date: 2010-07-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register: July 28, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 144)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 44140-44141]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2010-0648]
RIN 1625-AA00

 
Safety Zone; Chicago Harbor, Navy Pier Southeast, Chicago, IL

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the Navy Pier Southeast Safety 
Zone in Chicago Harbor during August 4, 2010 through August 29, 2010. 
This action is necessary and intended to ensure safety of life on the 
navigable waters immediately prior to, during, and immediately after 
fireworks events. This rule will establish restrictions upon, and 
control movement of, vessels in a specified area immediately prior to, 
during, and immediately after fireworks events. During the enforcement 
period, no person or vessel may enter the safety zones without 
permission of the Captain of the Port, Sector Lake Michigan.

DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 165.931 will be enforced as detailed 
below from 9:15 p.m. on August 4, 2010, to 9:45 p.m. on August 29, 
2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice, 
call or e-mail BM1 Adam Kraft, Prevention Department, Coast Guard 
Sector Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, WI at 414-747-7154, e-mail 
Adam.D.Kraft@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone; Chicago Harbor, Navy 
Pier Southeast, Chicago, IL, 33 CFR 165.931 for the following events:
    (1) Navy Pier Fireworks; on August 4, 2010 from 9:15 p.m. through 
9:45 p.m.; on August 07, 2010 from 10 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.; on 
August 11, 2010 from 9:15 p.m. through 9:45 p.m.; on August 14, 2010 
from 10 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.; on August 18, 2010 from 9:15 p.m. 
through 9:45 p.m.; on August 21, 2010 from 10 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.; 
on August 24, 2010 from 9:15 p.m. through 9:45 p.m.; on August 25, 2010 
from 9:15 p.m. through 9:45 p.m.; on August 26, 2010 from 9:15 p.m. 
through 9:45 p.m.; on August 27, 2010 from 10 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.; 
on August 28, 2010 from 10 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.; on August 29, 2010 
from 9:15 p.m. through 9:45 p.m.
    All vessels must obtain permission from the Captain of the Port, 
Sector Lake Michigan, or his or her on-scene representative to enter, 
move within or exit the safety zone. Vessels and persons granted 
permission to enter the safety zone shall obey all lawful orders or 
directions of the Captain of the Port, Sector Lake Michigan, or his or 
her on-scene representative. While within a safety zone, all vessels 
shall operate at the minimum speed necessary to maintain a safe course.
    This notice is issued under authority of 33 CFR 165.931 Safety 
Zone, Chicago Harbor, Navy Pier Southeast, Chicago IL and 5 U.S.C. 
552(a). In addition to this notice in the Federal Register, the Coast 
Guard will provide the maritime community with advance notification of 
these enforcement periods via Broadcast Notice to Mariners or Local 
Notice to Mariners. The Captain of the Port,

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Sector Lake Michigan, will issue a Broadcast Notice to Mariners 
notifying the public when enforcement of the safety zone established by 
this section is suspended. If the Captain of the Port, Sector Lake 
Michigan, determines that the safety zone need not be enforced for the 
full duration stated in this notice, he or she may use a Broadcast 
Notice to Mariners to grant general permission to enter the safety 
zone. The Captain of the Port, Sector Lake Michigan, or his or her on-
scene representative may be contacted via VHF Channel 16.

    Dated: July 6, 2010.
L. Barndt,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port, Sector Lake Michigan.
[FR Doc. 2010-18519 Filed 7-27-10; 8:45 am]
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