[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR334.180]

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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER II--CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
 
PART 334--DANGER ZONE AND RESTRICTED AREA REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 334.180  Patuxent River, Md.; restricted areas, U.S. Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md.

    (a) Except in the gut off the tip of Point Patience, no person in 
the water and no craft shall approach closer than 75 yards to the 
beaches, shoreline, or piers of the area formerly occupied by the U.S. 
Naval Mine Warfare Test Station, or of U.S. Naval Air Station property. 
A person in the water or a civilian craft shall not approach rafts, 
barges, or platforms closer than 100 yards.
    (b) Diving tenders will exhibit a square red flag with white X when 
underwater diving takes place from naval small craft. At such times, 
persons in the water and civilian craft shall stay at least 200 yards 
clear of these vessels and the civilian craft shall proceed at a speed 
not greater than five knots when within 1,000 yards thereof.
    (c) On occasions, seaplane landings and takeoffs will be practiced 
in the seadrome area north of the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent 
River. This area includes those waters of the Patuxent River between 
Town Point and Hog Point shoreward of a line described as follows: 
Beginning at a point on the shore just west of Lewis Creek, bearing 
161 deg.30' true, 2,000 yards from Patuxent River Light 8; thence to a 
point bearing 130 deg. true, 1,850 yards from Patuxent River Light 8; 
thence to a piont bearing 247 deg.30' true, 3,650 yards from Drum Point 
Light 2; thence to point bearing 235 deg. true, 2,060 yards from Drum 
Point

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Light 2; thence to a point bearing 129 deg. true, 700 yards from Drum 
Point Light 2; thence to a point bearing 137 deg. true, 1,060 yards from 
Drum Point Light 2; and thence to a point on the shore west of Harper 
Creek entrance, bearing 158 deg.30' true, 1,900 yards from Drum Point 
Light 2.
    (d) The regulations in this section shall be enforced by the 
Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., and 
such agencies as he may designate.

[30 FR 4198, Mar. 31, 1965, as amended at 48 FR 54598, Dec. 6, 1983. 
Redesignated at 50 FR 42696, Oct. 22, 1985]