[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR164.33]

[Page 601]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 164--NAVIGATION SAFETY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 164.33  Charts and publications.

    (a) Each vessel must have the following:
    (1) Marine charts of the area to be transited, published by the 
National Ocean Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or a river 
authority that--
    (i) Are of a large enough scale and have enough detail to make safe 
navigation of the area possible; and
    (ii) Are currently corrected.
    (2) For the area to be transited, a currently corrected copy of, or 
applicable currently corrected extract from, each of the following 
publications:
    (i) U.S. Coast Pilot.
    (ii) Coast Guard Light List.
    (3) For the area to be transited, the current edition of, or 
applicable current extract from:
    (i) Tide tables published by private entities using data provided by 
the National Ocean Service.
    (ii) Tidal current tables published by private entities using data 
provided by the National Ocean Service, or river current publication 
issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or a river authority.
    (b) As an alternative to the requirements for paragraph (a) of this 
section, a marine chart or publication, or applicable extract, published 
by a foreign government may be substituted for a U.S. chart and 
publication required by this section. The chart must be of large enough 
scale and have enough detail to make safe navigation of the area 
possible, and must be currently corrected. The publication, or 
applicable extract, must singly or in combination contain similar 
information to the U.S. Government publication to make safe navigation 
of the area possible. The publication, or applicable extract must be 
currently corrected, with the exceptions of tide and tidal current 
tables, which must be the current editions.
    (c) As used in this section, ``currently corrected'' means corrected 
with changes contained in all Notices to Mariners published by the 
National Imagery and Mapping Agency, or an equivalent foreign government 
publication, reasonably available to the vessel, and that is applicable 
to the vessel's transit.

[CGD 82-055, 48 FR 44535, Sept. 29, 1983, as amended by USCG-2001-9286, 
66 FR 33641, June 25, 2001]