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List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 100 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION President, Vice President, and visiting heads of foreign states or foreign Marine safety, Navigation (water), Coast Guard governments arrive at Logan Reporting and recordkeeping International Airport and then transit to requirements, Waterways. 33 CFR Part 165 locations throughout Boston by car or Temporary Regulations [CGD01±97±004] boat. Due to the sensitive nature of these visits, a security zone is needed. RIN 2115±AA97 In consideration of the foregoing, the Standard security procedures are Coast Guard amends Part 100 of Title Security Zone: Dignitary Arrival/ enacted to ensure the proper level of 33, Code of Federal Regulations, as Departure Logan International Airport, protection to prevent sabotage or other follows. Boston, MA subversive acts, accidents, or other activities of a similar nature. In the past, PART 100Ð[AMENDED] AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT. temporary security zones were ACTION: Final rule. requested by the U.S. Secret Service 1. The authority citation for Part 100 with limited notice for preparation by continues to read as follows: SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is the U.S. Coast Guard. This regulation establishing a permanent, four-sector establishes a permanent four-sector Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1233, 49 CFR 1.46 and security zone on the waters around security zone that can be activated upon 33 CFR 100.35. Logan International Airport, above the the request of the U.S. Secret Service 2. A temporary section 100.35–T07– Callahan Tunnel, Sumner Tunnel, Ted pursuant to their authority under 18 017 is added to read as follows: Williams Tunnel, and around any U.S.C. 3056. The security zone sections designated vessel, to protect the will be as follows: § 100.35±T07±017 Whitbread Race; Fort President, Vice President and visiting Sector one will go into effect 15 Lauderdale, FL heads of foreign states or foreign minutes prior to the scheduled landing governments during their arrival, or takeoff of the aircraft carrying the (a) Regulated Areas (all coordinates departure and transits to and from President, Vice President, or visiting reference Datum: NAD 1983). (1) A Logan International Airport. heads of foreign states or foreign regulated area is established for the DATES: This rule is effective on June 1, governments at Logan International starting line by a line joining the 1998. Airport. Sector one will preclude all following corner points: Corner point 1: vessels from approaching within three ADDRESSES: The comments and other 26–07.9N—080–04.4W, Corner point 2: hundred yards of the Logan material referred to in this preamble are 26–07.1N—080–04.4W, Corner point 3: International Airport shoreline, bound available for inspection or copying at 26–07.9N—080–05.6W, Corner point 4: on the west by a line drawn between the Marine Safety Office, Boston, MA, 26–07.1N—080–05.6W. positions 42°22′45′′N, 071°01′05′′W and during normal working hours between ° ′ ′′ ° ′ ′′ (2) A regulated area is established for 42 21 48 N, 071 01 45 W (NAD 1983). the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Sector two will go into effect 15 the turning point by a line joining the Monday through Friday, except federal minutes before the vehicle carrying the following corner points: Corner point 1: holidays. President, Vice President, or visiting 26–10.1N—080–04.6W, Corner point 2: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LT heads of foreign states or foreign 26–10.1N—080–05.2W, Corner point 3: Michael H. Day or MSTC Daniel J. governments enters the Callahan Tunnel 26–10.9N—080–04.6W, Corner point 4: Dugery, Coast Guard Marine Safety or Sumner Tunnel. Sector two may 26–10.9N—080–05.2W. Office, Boston, MA; telephone (617) preclude vessels, as necessary, from (b) Special local regulations. (1) Entry 223–3000. entering an area of the main ship into the regulated area by other than SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: channel, Boston Inner Harbor, fifty yards in all directions from a point event participants is prohibited unless Regulatory History otherwise authorized by the Patrol directly above the Callahan Tunnel or Commander. After departure of On January 8, 1998, the Coast Guard the Sumner Tunnel. participants from the regulated area, published a Notice of Proposed Sector three will go into effect 15 minutes before the vehicle carrying the traffic may resume normal operations. Rulemaking titled ‘‘Security Zone: Dignitary Arrival/Departure Logan President, Vice President, or visiting (2) A succession of not fewer than 5 International Airport, Boston, MA’’ in heads of foreign states or foreign short whistle or horn blasts from a the Federal Register (63 FR 1089). The governments enters the Ted Williams patrol vessel will be the signal for any comment period ended March 9, 1998. Tunnel. Sector three may preclude and all vessels to take immediate steps The Coast Guard received two letters vessels, as necessary, from entering an to avoid collision. The display of an commenting on this proposal. These area of the main ship channel, Boston orange distress smoke signal from a comments have been incorporated into Inner Harbor, fifty yards in all directions patrol vessel will be the signal for any this final rule. No public hearing was from a point directly above the Ted and all vessels to stop immediately. requested and none was held. Williams Tunnel. Sector four will go into effect 15 (c) Dates. This section is effective at Background and Purpose minutes before the President, Vice 12 p.m. and terminates at 1 p.m. EDT on Boston Massachusetts is visited by the President, or visiting heads of foreign April 19, 1998. President or Vice President of the states or foreign governments board the Dated: March 18, 1998. United States, or visiting heads of designated transport vessel. Sector four foreign states or foreign governments an will preclude all vessels from Norman T. Saunders, average of 24 times per year. Often these approaching within three hundred yards Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, visits are on short notice. The President, in all directions from the designated Seventh Coast Guard District. Vice President, and visiting heads of vessel transporting the dignitaries [FR Doc. 98–8254 Filed 4–1–98; 8:45 am] foreign states or foreign governments between Logan International Airport BILLING CODE 4910±15±M require Secret Service protection. The and any location in Boston Harbor. Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 63 / Thursday, April 2, 1998 / Rules and Regulations 16117

The activation of a particular sector of Office of Management and Budget under environmental documentation. A this security zone will be announced via that order. It is not significant under the Categorical Exclusion Determination Safety Marine Information Broadcasts regulatory policies and procedures of and an Environmental Analysis and/or by locally issued notices. the Department of Transportation (DOT) Checklist are included in the docket. (44 FR 11040; February 26, 1979). The Discussion of Comments and Changes List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 165 Coast Guard expects the economic Responses to the Notice of Proposed impact of this rule to be so minimal that Harbors, Marine safety, Navigation Rulemaking provided a number of a full Regulatory Evaluation is (water), Reporting and recordkeeping specific comments on the proposed rule. unnecessary. The Coast Guard requirements, Security measures, The letters expressed concern over the anticipates that this security zone will Waterways. potential impact this rule could have on be activated an average of 24 times per For reasons set out in the preamble, the port community. year. Costs resulting from these the Coast Guard amends 33 CFR Part One comment expressed a concern of regulations, if any, will be minor and 165 as follows: local shipping agencies that this rule have no significant adverse financial would close the waters over the effect on vessel operators as the PART 165ÐREGULATED NAVIGATION Callahan Tunnel, Sumner Tunnel, and activation of any one of the sectors of AREAS AND LIMITED ACCESS AREAS Ted Williams Tunnel for extended this security zone will be less than one periods of time. In response to this 1. The authority citation for part 165 half-hour duration. Deep draft vessel continues to read as follows: comment, the wording of sections two traffic, fishing vessels, and tour boats and three of the security zone has been may experience slight delays in Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1231; 50 U.S.C. 191; changed from ‘‘will preclude all departures or arrivals, however, the 33 CFR 1.05–1(g), 6.04–1, 6.04–6, and 160.5; 49 CFR 1.46. vessels’’ to ‘‘may preclude vessels, as delays are minimal relative to the highly necessary.’’ In the past, when enforcing significant national security interest in 2. Section 165.113, is added to read as a temporary security zone over these protecting the President, Vice President, follows: tunnels, the Coast Guard vessel(s) on and visiting heads of foreign states or § 165.113 Security zone: Dignitary arrival/ scene had the option whether to allow foreign governments visiting Boston. vessels to transit through the temporary departure Logan International Airport, Boston, MA security zone or to close the waterway Small Entities (a) Location. The permanent security to all vessel transits. This option Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act zone consists of four sectors that may be remains. (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the Coast Guard activated in part, or in whole, upon the Another comment expressed concern must consider whether this proposal request of the U.S. Secret Service. These that the security zone around the will have a significant economic impact zones are for the protection of the designated transport vessel moving the on a substantial number of small President or Vice President of the President, Vice President, or visiting entities. ‘‘Small entities’’ may include United States, as well as visiting heads heads of foreign states or foreign (1) small businesses and not-for-profit of foreign states or foreign governments governments could cause obstructions organizations that are independently arriving at, or departing from, Logan and delays to commercial deep draft owned and operated and are not International Airport and as determined vessels transiting Boston Inner harbor. dominant in their fields and (2) by the transit route across Boston Discussions with the U.S. Secret governmental jurisdictions with Harbor. The security zone will be as Service and an examination of past populations of less than 50,000. temporary security zone enforcement For the reasons addressed under the follows: practices has shown that transport Regulatory Evaluation above, the Coast (1) Sector one will go into effect 15 vessels moving the President, Vice Guard finds that this rule will not have minutes prior to the scheduled landing President, or visiting heads of foreign a significant impact on a substantial or takeoff of the aircraft carrying either states or foreign governments across the number of small entities. the President, Vice President, or visiting harbor have allowed commercial vessels heads of foreign states or foreign to transit through the area rather than Collection of Information governments at Logan International impede the transit of a commercial This rule contains no collection of Airport. Sector one will preclude all vessel. information requirements under the vessels from approaching within three The last comment indicated that a Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. hundred yards of the Logan security zone, two hours in duration, 3501 et seq.). International Airport shoreline, bound would place an unnecessary delay on on the west by a line drawn between vessels transiting the port. In view of Federalism positions 42°22′45′′N, 071°01′05′′W and this comment, the wording under This rule has been analyzed in 42°21′48′′N, 071°01′45′′W (NAD) 1983). Regulatory Evaluation has been changed accordance with the principles and (2) Sector two will go into effect 15 from ‘‘less than two hour duration’’ to criteria contained in Executive Order minutes before the vehicle carrying the ‘‘less than one half-hour duration.’’ This 12612 and it has been determined that President, Vice President, or visiting reflects the average time temporary this rule does not have sufficient heads of foreign states or foreign security zones have been in effect for federalism implications to warrant the governments enters the Callahan Tunnel inbound and outbound transits to Logan preparation of a Federalism Assessment. or Sumner Tunnel. Sector two may Airport. preclude vessels, as necessary, from Environment entering an area of the main ship Regulatory Evaluation The Coast Guard has considered the channel, Boston Inner Harbor; fifty This rule is not a significant environmental impact of this rule and yards in all directions from a point regulatory action under section 3(f) of concluded that, under section directly above the Callahan Tunnel or Executive Order 12866 and does not 2.B.2.e.(34)(g) of Commandant Sumner Tunnel. require an assessment of potential costs Instruction M16475.1B (as revised by 59 (3) Sector three will go into effect 15 and benefits under section 6(a)(3) of that FR 38654, July 29, 1994), this rule is minutes before the vehicle carrying the order. It has not been reviewed by the categorically excluded from further President, Vice President, or visiting 16118 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 63 / Thursday, April 2, 1998 / Rules and Regulations heads of foreign states or foreign Federal Acquisition Reform Act, the CHAPTER 28ÐDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE governments enters the Ted Williams Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act Subchapter AÐGeneral Tunnel. Sector three may preclude and to implement recommendations of Part 2801—Department of Justice Acquisition vessels, as necessary, from entering an the National Performance Review. This Regulation System area of the main ship channel, Boston effort creates a new JAR that is simpler Part 2802—Definitions of Words and Terms Inner Harbor, fifty yards in all directions and less burdensome. This 1998 version Part 2803—Improper Business Practices and from a point directly above the Ted of the JAR supersedes the 1985 version Personal Conflicts of Interest Williams Tunnel. and all amendments (Justice Acquisition Part 2804—Administrative Matters (4) Sector four will go into effect 15 Circulars 85–1 through 97–1) issued Subchapter BÐCompetition and minutes before the President, Vice prior to the date of publication of this Acquisition Planning final rule. President, or visiting heads of foreign Part 2805—Publicizing Contract Actions states or foreign governments board the EFFECTIVE DATE: April 2, 1998. Part 2806—Competition Requirements designated transport vessel. Sector four Part 2807—Acquisition Planning will preclude all vessels from FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Part 2808—Required Sources of Supplies and approaching within three hundred yards Services Janis Sposato, Procurement Executive, in all directions from the designated Part 2809—Contractor Qualifications Justice Management Division (202) 514– vessel transporting the President, Vice Part 2811—Describing Agency Needs 3103. President, or visiting heads of foreign Part 2812—Acquisition of Commercial Items states or foreign governments between SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Subchapter CÐContracting Methods and Logan International Airport and any Contract Types A. Background location in Boston Harbor. Part 2813—Simplified Acquisition (5) The activation of a particular This final rule revises 48 CFR chapter Procedures sector of this security zone will be 28 in its entirety. A proposed rule with Part 2814—Sealed Bidding Part 2815—Contracting By Negotiation announced via Safety Marine request for comments was published in Information Broadcasts and/or by Part 2816—Types of Contracts the Federal Register on January 9, 1998. Part 2817—Special Contracting Methods locally issued notices. The final rule differs from the proposed (b) Regulations. (1) The general rule to make editorial corrections and Subchapter DÐSocioeconomic Programs regulations covering security zones incorporate comments as appropriate. Part 2819—Small Business Programs contained in 33 CFR 165.33 apply. Part 2822—Application of Labor Laws to (2) All persons and vessels shall No comments were received from Government Acquisitions comply with the instructions of the other than DOJ components. The Part 2823—Environment, Conservation, Coast Guard Captain of the Port or the comments were considered in Occupational Safety, and Drug-Free designated on scene patrol personnel. developing the final rule. Workplace Part 2824—Protection of Privacy and Coast Guard patrol personnel include B. Regulatory Flexibility Act Freedom of Information commissioned, warrant, and petty Part 2825—Foreign Acquisition officers of the Coast Guard. Upon being The Department of Justice certifies hailed by a Coast Guard vessel via siren, that this final rule will not have a Subchapter EÐGeneral Contracting radio, flashing light, or other means, the significant economic impact on a Requirements operator of a vessel shall proceed as substantial number of small entities Part 2828—Bonds and Insurance directed. within the meaning of the Regulatory Part 2829—Taxes Part 2830—Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Dated: March 18, 1998. Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., because the amendment sets forth Administration J. L. Grenier, Part 2831—Contract Cost Principles and internal departmental procedures. Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Procedures Port, Boston, Massachusetts. C. Paperwork Reduction Act Part 2832—Contract Financing Part 2833—Protests, Disputes, and Appeals [FR Doc. 98–8259 Filed 4–1–98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910±15±M The final rule imposes no new Subchapter FÐSpecial Categories of information collection requirements that Contracting require approval by the Office of Part 2834—Major System Acquisition Management and Budget (OMB) under DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 Subchapter GÐContract Management 48 CFR Chapter 28 (Pub. L. 96–511). All information Part 2842—Contract Administration collection requirements have been Part 2845—Government Property Justice Acquisition Regulations; submitted to OMB. In those cases where Part 2846—Quality Assurance Implementation of the Federal an OMB control number has been Subchapter HÐClauses and Forms Acquisition Reform Act, the Federal assigned, the control number is Part 2852—Solicitation Provisions and Acquisition Streamlining Act and the included in the regulation. Contract Clauses National Performance Review List of Subjects in 48 CFR Parts 2801 Subchapter AÐGeneral Recommendations through 2852 Part 2801ÐDepartment of Justice AGENCY: Justice Management Division, Government procurement. Acquisition Regulations System Justice. Stephen R. Colgate, Subpart 2801.1ÐPurpose, Authority, ACTION: Final rule. Assistant Attorney General for Issuance Administration. 2801.101 Purpose. SUMMARY: The Department of Justice 2801.106 OMB approval under the (DOJ) has rewritten 48 CFR Chapter 28, For the reasons set out in the Paperwork Reduction Act. the Justice Acquisition Regulations, in preamble, Chapter 28 of Title 48 of the its entirety in order to implement Code of Federal Regulations is revised Subpart 2801.2ÐAdministration regulatory changes resulting from the as set forth below. 2801.270–1 Revisions.