Rules and Regulations. Notice of proposed rulemaking; corrections

Agency: Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking; corrections
Citation: 88 FR (No. 50) · FR Doc. 2023-05380 · RIN 1625-AA00 · Docket Number USCG-2023-0073 · 33 CFR 147

Summary

On March 6, 2023, the Coast Guard published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to establish 13 temporary 500-meter safety zones in the South Fork Wind Farm project area. That proposed rule contained four labeling plot location errors and one error of the coordinates describing a labeling plot location. This document corrects those errors in the NPRM.

Dates

Comments to the NPRM published at 88 FR 13745 on March 6, 2023, and related material must be received by the Coast Guard on or before April 5, 2023. This correction will not cause any delay of the originally established comment period for the NPRM.

Supplementary Information

On March 6, 2023, the Coast Guard published a NPRM titled “Safety Zone; South Fork Wind Farm Project Area, Outer Continental Shelf, Lease OCS-A 0517, Offshore Rhode Island, Atlantic Ocean” (88 FR 13745). In this NPRM we discussed a proposal to establish 13 safety zones to ensure the safety of life, property, and the environment within a 500-meter radius of each of the 13 facilities during their construction. Four of the names for labeling plot locations in addition to the coordinates of one labeling plot location were discovered to be erroneous and require correction. The positions of each individual safety zone in our proposed rule were referred to using a unique alpha-numeric naming convention outlined in the “Rhode Island and Massachusetts Structure Labeling Plot (West)”. 1 This document corrects both tables and a chartlet discussed in our proposed rule by correcting the four labeling plot location errors with replacing AN07, AM09, AN10, and AP10 with AM05, AN05, AP05, and AN08, and correcting the coordinates describing AN06. 1 The Rhode Island and Massachusetts Structure Labeling Plot (West) is an attachment to the Conditions of Construction and Operations Plan Approval Lease Number OCS-A 0517 ( boem.gov ) and can be found at https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/files/documents/renewable-energy/state-activities/SFWF-COP-Terms-and-Conditions.pdf. In accordance with 33 CFR 147.15, the proposed safety zones would include the area within 500-meters of the center point of the positions provided in the corrected table expressed in Decimal Degrees based on North American Datum 1983 (NAD 83). The corrected chartlet showing positions of each proposed safety zone using unique alpha-numeric naming convention is also set out. Corrections 1. On page 13746, the table is corrected to read as follows: Name Facility type Latitude Longitude AM05 WTG N 41.10879493 W −71.19110374 AM06 WTG N 41.10921219 W −71.16906236 AM07 WTG N 41.10962524 W −71.14702052 AM08 WTG N 41.11003408 W −71.12497822 AN05 WTG N 41.09212418 W −71.19054951 AN06 WTG N 41.09195639 W −71.16788437 AN08 WTG N 41.09336261 W −71.12444068 AN09 WTG N 41.093767 W −71.1024035 AP05 WTG N 41.07545338 W −71.18999573 AP06 OSS N 41.07587016 W −71.16796548 AP07 WTG N 41.07628273 W −71.14593476 AP08 WTG N 41.07669109 W −71.12390359 AP09 WTG N 41.07709524 W −71.10187197 2. On page 13748, the chartlet is corrected to read as follows: EP15MR23.005 This document is published under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a). Dated: March 13, 2023. J.W. Mauger, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, First Coast Guard District. [FR Doc. 2023-05380 Filed 3-14-23; 8:45 am]