Document ID: USCG-2014-0034-0002
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: FR:  Safety Zones: Texas City Channel, Texas City, TX (Federal Register Publication)
Posted Date: 2014-06-24T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 35687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14633]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2014-0034]
RIN 1625-AA00

Safety Zone, Texas City Channel, Texas City, TX

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard published a direct final rule and request for 
comments on April 8, 2014, removing the Snake Island Safety Zone, also 
known as Shoal Point, within the Texas City Channel. We did not receive 
any adverse comments or any notices of intent to submit an adverse 
comment. Therefore, the rule will go into effect as scheduled to remove 
the existing regulation because it places general restrictions on 
vessels which are no longer necessary.

DATES: This final rule is effective July 14, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this regulation 
call or email LCDR Xochitl Casta[ntilde]eda, Sector Houston-Galveston, 
Houston, Texas, at telephone (281) 464-4891, email 
Xochitl.L.Castaneda@Uscg.mil. For information about viewing or 
submitting material to the docket, call Cheryl Collins, Program 
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-9826, toll free 1-800-
647-5527.

Discussion

    The Coast Guard published a direct final rule on April 8, 2014 in 
the Federal Register (79 FR 19289) to disestablish the Snake Island 
safety zone, also known as Shoal Point, within the Texas City channel. 
The Coast Guard did not receive any comment on this rulemaking. The 
direct final rule will go into effect on July 7, 2014.

List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 165

    Harbors, Marine safety, Navigation (water), Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, Security measures, Waterways.

    For the reasons discussed herein and in the direct final rule, 
published April 8, 2014, the Coast Guard amends 33 CFR part 165 as 
follows:

PART 165--REGULATED NAVIGATION AREAS AND LIMITED ACCESS AREAS

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1. The authority citation for part 165 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1231; 46 U.S.C. Chapter 701; 50 U.S.C. 191; 
33 CFR 1.05-1(g), 6.04-1, 6.04-6, and 160.5; Pub. L. 107-295, 116 
Stat. 2064; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

Sec.  165.804  [Removed]

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2. Remove Sec.  165.804.

    Dated: June 3, 2014.
Brian K. Penoyer,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Houston-Galveston.
[FR Doc. 2014-14633 Filed 6-23-14; 8:45 am]
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