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CFR Citation: 33 CFR Part 165

RIN ID: RIN 1625-AA00

USC ID: [USCG-2006-25767; CGD09-06-123]

NOTICE: PROPOSED RULES

ACTION: Ports and waterways safety; regulated navigation areas, safety zones, security zones, etc.:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Re-opening of comment period.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Safety Zones; U.S. Coast Guard Water Training Areas, Great Lakes

DATES: Comments and related materials must reach the Coast Guard on or before November 13, 2006.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: In response to public requests, the Coast Guard is re-opening the comment period on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to establish permanent safety zones throughout the Great Lakes to conduct live fire gun exercises. These safety zones are necessary to protect the public from the hazards associated with the firing of weapons and to ensure the operational readiness of Coast Guard personnel, cutters and small boats. Reopening the comment period will provide the public more time to submit comments and recommendations.

SUMMARY: Great Lakes; Coast Guard water training areas,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

On August 1, 2006, the Coast Guard published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)(71 FR 43402) to establish permanent safety zones throughout the Great Lakes to conduct live fire gun exercises. The initial comment period for this NPRM ended on August 31, 2006.

In response to public requests, the Coast Guard is reopening the comment period on this NPRM. Reopening the comment period will provide the public more time to submit comments and recommendations.

In addition, the Coast Guard has added a copy of the ``Preliminary Health Risk Assessment for Proposed U.S. Coast Guard Weapons Training Exercises'' (January 2006) to the docket in order to better inform the public that the proposed training will pose no elevated health or ecological risks in the Great Lakes.

Request for Comments

The Coast Guard encourages you to submit comments and related materials. If you submit a comment, please include your name and address, identify the NPRM [USCG20062567 (formerly CGD0906123)]; published in the Federal Register on August 1, 2006 (71 FR 43402) and indicate the specific section of this document to which each comment applies, and give the reason for each comment. Please submit one copy of all comments and attachments in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing to the DOT Docket Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES. If you submit them by mail and would like to know that they reached the facility, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed postcard or envelope.

The Coast Guard will consider all comments received during the comment period. It may change the proposed rules in view of the comments.

Dated: September 1, 2006.
John E. Crowley, Jr.,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, Ninth Coast Guard District. [FR Doc. E615109 Filed 91106; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT For information on the NPRM provisions contact Commander Gustav Wulfkuhle, Enforcement Branch, Response Division, Ninth Coast Guard District, Cleveland, Ohio at 2169026091. For questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202493 0402.