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The U.S. Coast Guard is asking mariners and other stakeholders to weigh in on a draft Pacific Coast Port Access Route Study, the “first comprehensive evaluation of vessel traffic patterns that use Pacific coastal waters off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington,” the agency said. Oct. 25 is the deadline for submitting input on the study, which seeks to review the use of historic and future waterways to see if there is navigational risk and make recommendations that would uphold safety navigation. This involves reviewing a decade’s worth of vessel tracking data, as well as various data such as…