[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR156.300]

[Page 444]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
    CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 156--OIL AND HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRANSFER OPERATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart C--Lightering Zones and Operational Requirements for the Gulf of 
                                 Mexico
 
Sec. 156.300  Designated lightering zones.

    Source: CGD 93-081, 60 FR 45017, Aug. 29, 1995, unless otherwise 
noted.


    The following lightering zones are designated in the Gulf of Mexico 
and are more than 60 miles from the baseline from which the territorial 
sea is measured:
    (a) Southtex--lightering zone. This lightering zone and the 
geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters 
bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.                          Longitude W.
27 deg.40[min]00[sec],               93 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
27 deg.40[min]00[sec],               94 deg.35[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.06[min]30[sec],               94 deg.35[min]00[sec], thence to
27 deg.21[min]00[sec],               96 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
26 deg.30[min]00[sec],               96 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
26 deg.30[min]00[sec],               93 deg.00[min]00[sec], and thence
                                      to the point of beginning.



(NAD 83)
    (b) Gulfmex No. 2--lightering zone. This lightering zone and the 
geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters 
bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.                          Longitude W.
27 deg.53[min]00[sec],               89 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
27 deg.53[min]00[sec],               91 deg.30[min]00[sec], thence to
26 deg.30[min]00[sec],               91 deg.30[min]00[sec], thence to
26 deg.30[min]00[sec],               89 deg.00[min]00[sec], and thence
                                      to the point of beginning.



(NAD 83)
    (c) Offshore Pascagoula No. 2--lightering zone. This lightering zone 
and the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the 
waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.                          Longitude W.
29 deg.20[min]00[sec],               87 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
29 deg.12[min]00[sec],               87 deg.45[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.39[min]00[sec],               88 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.00[min]00[sec],               88 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.00[min]00[sec],               87 deg.00[min]00[sec], and thence
                                      to the point of beginning.



(NAD 83)
    (d) South Sabine Point--lightering zone. This lightering zone and 
the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the 
waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.                          Longitude W.
28 deg.30[min]00[sec],               92 deg.38[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.44[min]00[sec],               93 deg.24[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.33[min]00[sec],               94 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.18[min]00[sec],               94 deg.00[min]00[sec], thence to
28 deg.18[min]00[sec],               92 deg.38[min]00[sec], and thence
                                      to the point of beginning.



(NAD 83)