[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR3.04-1]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 3--COAST GUARD AREAS, DISTRICTS, MARINE INSPECTION ZONES, AND CAPTAIN OF THE PORT ZONES--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart 3.04--Coast Guard Areas
 
Sec. 3.04-1  Atlantic Area.


    (a) The Area Office is in Portsmouth, VA.
    (b) The Atlantic Area is comprised of the land areas and U.S. 
navigable waters of the First, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Coast 
Guard Districts and the ocean areas lying east of a line extending from 
the North Pole south along 95 deg. W. longitude to the North American 
land mass; thence along the east coast of the North, Central, and South 
American land mass to the intersection with 70 deg. W. longitude; thence 
due south to the South Pole. These waters extend east to the Eastern 
Hemisphere dividing line between the Atlantic and Pacific Areas which 
lies along a line extending from the North Pole south along 100 deg. E. 
longitude to the Asian land mass and along a line extending from the 
South Pole north along 17 deg. E. longitude to the African land mass.

[CGFR 70-150, 36 FR 910, Jan. 20, 1971, as amended by CGD 87-008, 52 FR 
13083, Apr. 21, 1987; CGD 96-025, 61 FR 29959, June 13, 1996]

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