Document ID: USCG-2019-0562-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Rule
Title: Regulated Navigation Area; Straits of Mackinac, Mackinaw City, MI
Posted Date: 2019-07-12T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 134 (Friday, July 12, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 33163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14820]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2019-0562]

Regulated Navigation Area; Straits of Mackinac, Mackinaw City, MI

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce a temporary traffic rule 
prohibiting the transit of certain vessels under the Mackinac Bridge in 
the Straits of Mackinac on August 11, 2019, to provide for safety of 
life on navigable waterways during a swim event. Our regulation 
identifies the vessels that must comply with this temporary traffic 
rule. During the enforcement periods, the operator of any vessel in the 
regulated navigation area must comply with directions from the Patrol 
Commander or a Designated Representative of the Captain of the Port.

DATES: This temporary traffic rule permitted in 33 CFR 165.944 will be 
enforced from 7:30 a.m. through 10:30 a.m. on August 11, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this 
notice of enforcement, call or email LT Sean Murphy, Waterways 
Management, U.S. Coast Guard; telephone 906-635-3223, email 
Sean.V.Murphy@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce a temporary 
traffic rule, that the Captain of the Port Sault Sainte Marie is 
establishing under 33 CFR 165.944(c)(7), to provide for safety of life 
on navigable waterways during a swim event near the Mackinac Bridge in 
the Straits of Mackinac. The temporary traffic rule will be enforced 
from 7:30 a.m. through 10:30 a.m. on August 11, 2019. During this 
period of enforcement, certain vessels, listed in 33 CFR 165.944(b), 
are prohibited from crossing underneath the Mackinac Bridge in the 
Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. If you are the operator of a vessel in 
the regulated navigation area you must comply with directions from the 
Patrol Commander or Designated Representative of the Captain of the 
Port.
    In addition to this notice of enforcement in the Federal Register, 
the Coast Guard plans to provide notification of this enforcement 
period via the Local Notice to Mariners, and marine information 
broadcasts.

    Dated: July 3, 2019.
Patrick S. Nelson,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Sault Sainte Marie.
[FR Doc. 2019-14820 Filed 7-11-19; 8:45 am]
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