
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 142 (Thursday, July 24, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 42983-42984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17483]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 165

[Docket No. USCG-2014-0646]


Safety Zones; Annual Events Requiring Safety Zones in the Captain 
of the Port Lake Michigan Zone--New Buffalo Ship and Shore 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 Lake Michigan 
in New Buffalo, MI for the New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks 
display. This zone will be enforced from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on 
August 9, 2014. This action is necessary and intended to ensure the 
safety of life on navigable waters during a 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

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may enter the safety zone while it is being enforced without permission 
of the Captain of the Port Lake Michigan.

DATES: The regulations in 33 CFR 165.929 will be enforced for safety 
zone (f)(13) in Table 165.929, from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on 
August 9, 2014.

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 New Buffalo 
Ship and Shore Fireworks safety zone listed as item (f)(13) 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. 
The New Buffalo Ship and Shore Fireworks zone will encompass all waters 
of Lake Michigan and New Buffalo Harbor within the arc of a circle with 
an 800-foot radius from the fireworks launch site located in position 
41[deg]48'09'' N, 086[deg]44'49'' W (NAD 83). This zone will be 
enforced from 9:30 p.m. until 11:15 p.m. on August 9, 2014.
    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 of this event via Broadcast Notice 
to Mariners or Local Notice to Mariners that the regulation is in 
effect. The Captain of the Port Lake Michigan or her on-scene 
representative may be contacted via Channel 16, VHF-FM.

    Dated: July 8, 2014.
A.B. Cocanour,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Lake Michigan.
[FR Doc. 2014-17483 Filed 7-23-14; 8:45 am]
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