Document ID: USCG-2015-0530-0002
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Safety Zones: Annual Events Requiring Safety Zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan Zone-Waterfront Festival Fireworks
Posted Date: 2015-06-29T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 124 (Monday, June 29, 2015)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 36921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15915]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2015-0530]
RIN 1625-AA00

Safety Zone; Annual Events Requiring Safety Zones in the Captain 
of the Port Lake Michigan Zone--Waterfront Festival Fireworks

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the safety zone on the waters of 
Green Bay in Menominee, MI for the Waterfront Festival Fireworks. This 
zone will be enforced from 9 p.m. until 11 p.m. on August 8, 2015. This 
action is necessary and intended to ensure safety of life on navigable 
waters immediately prior to, during, and immediately after the 
fireworks display. During the aforementioned period, the Coast Guard 
will enforce restrictions upon, and control movement of, vessels in the 
safety zone. No person or vessel may enter the safety zone while it is 
being enforced without permission of the Captain of the Port Lake 
Michigan or a designated representative.

DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 165.929 will be enforced for safety 
zone (f)(8), Table 165.929, from 9 p.m. until 11 p.m. on August 8, 
2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this 
document, call or email MST1 Joseph McCollum, Prevention Department, 
Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, WI at (414) 747-7148, 
email joseph.p.mccollum@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the Waterfront 
Festival Fireworks safety zone listed as item (f)(8) in Table 165.929 
of 33 CFR 165.929. Section 165.929 lists many annual events requiring 
safety zones in the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan zone. This safety 
zone will encompass all waters of Green Bay, in the vicinity of 
Menominee Marina, within the arc of a circle with a 1000-foot radius 
from a center position at 45[deg]06.447' N., 087[deg]35.991' W. (NAD 
83). This zone will be enforced from 9 p.m. until 11 p.m. on August 8, 
2015.
    All vessels must obtain permission from the Captain of the Port 
Lake Michigan or the on-scene representative to enter, move within, or 
exit the safety zone. Requests must be made in advance and approved by 
the Captain of the Port before transits will be authorized. Approvals 
will be granted on a case by case basis. Vessels and persons granted 
permission to enter the safety zone must obey all lawful orders or 
directions of the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan or a designated 
representative.
    This document is issued under authority of 33 CFR 165.929, Safety 
Zones; Annual events requiring safety zones in the Captain of the Port 
Lake Michigan zone, and 5 U.S.C. 552(a). In addition to this 
publication in the Federal Register, the Coast Guard will provide the 
maritime community with advance notification for the enforcement of 
this zone via Broadcast Notice to Mariners or Local Notice to Mariners. 
The Captain of the Port Lake Michigan or an on-scene representative may 
be contacted via Channel 16, VHF-FM.

    Dated: June 11, 2015.
A.B. Cocanour,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Lake Michigan.
[FR Doc. 2015-15915 Filed 6-26-15; 8:45 am]
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