Regulated Navigation Area; Mississippi River, Miles 88 to 240 Above Head of Passes

Résumé

The Coast Guard is extending the upper limits of the Mississippi River regulated navigation area, which presently exists between miles 88 and 127, Mississippi River, above Head of Passes, Louisiana, to cover the area between river miles 88 and 240, above Head of Passes, up to the Port of Baton Rouge. This regulation is necessary to improve the safety of barge fleeting areas that exist on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, an extremely confined navigation area with a high volume of marine traffic. The extension of this regulated navigation area will result in safer, standardized methods of mooring barges at and around barge fleeting facilities along the lower Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.