# Disestablishment of Danger Zone for Meteorological Rocket Launching Facility, Shemya Island Area, AK
> **US Army Corps of Engineers** · Direct final rule. · Published 2016-03-25 · Effective 2016-05-24 · 81 FR 16093
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-06860
- **Category:** civil-works
- **Sub-agency:** US Army Corps of Engineers
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 16093
- **CFR reference:** 33 CFR 334
- **Publication date:** 2016-03-25
- **Effective date:** 2016-05-24
## Abstract

The U.S. Air Force has requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) disestablish the existing danger zone located in the Bering Sea near Shemya Island, Alaska. The danger zone was established on September 28, 1971. The purpose of the danger zone was to protect persons and property from dangers encountered in the area associated with the launching of weather rockets. The facility has not been used for this activity since the mid-1980s. As a result of the discontinued use of this area, the Air Force has requested the danger zone be disestablished.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/03/25/2016-06860/disestablishment-of-danger-zone-for-meteorological-rocket-launching-facility-shemya-island-area-ak)
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