T&T: Bridge to Bridge Telephone Regs

[Mike Maurice]

Mike Maurice wrote:
> The latest version of the Nav RUles book from Paradise contains an error.
> 
> 


Here is the exact copy based on the new regs.
Here is the URL
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01dec20031500/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/octqtr/46cfr7.5.htm

[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
 From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR7.5]

[Page 68-69]

                            TITLE 46--SHIPPING

          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

PART 7--BOUNDARY LINES--Table of Contents

Sec. 7.5  Rules for establishing boundary lines.

     (a) For application of the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone
Act, 33 U.S.C. 1201 et seq., the line is 12 nautical miles seaward of
the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured.

[[Page 69]]

     (b) Barges of 100 gross tons and over operating on the sheltered
waters of British Columbia as defined in the United States-Canada treaty
of 1933 (49 Stat. 2685, TS 869) are not required to be inspected as
seagoing barges under 46 U.S.C. 3301.
     (c) Except as otherwise described in this part, Boundary Lines are
lines drawn following the general trend of the seaward, highwater
shorelines and lines continuing the general trend of the seaward,
highwater shorelines across entrances to small bays, inlets and rivers.

[CGD 81-058, 50 FR 25230, June 18, 1985, as amended by USCG-2001-9044,
68 FR 42602, July 18, 2003]

                              Atlantic Coast