[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: 33CFR165.113]
[Page 630-631]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
PART 165--REGULATED NAVIGATION AREAS AND LIMITED ACCESS AREAS--Table of
Contents
Subpart F--Specific Regulated Navigation Areas and Limited Access Areas
Sec. 165.113 Security Zone: Dignitary arrival/departure Logan International
Airport, Boston, MA
(a) Location. The permanent security zone consists of four sectors
that may be activated in part, or in whole, upon the request of the U.S.
Secret Service. These zones are for the protection of the President or
Vice President of the United States, as well as visiting heads of
foreign states or foreign governments arriving at, or departing from,
Logan International Airport and as determined by the transit route
across Boston Harbor. The security zone will be as follows:
(1) Sector one will go into effect 15 minutes prior to the scheduled
landing or takeoff of the aircraft carrying either the President, Vice
President, or visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments at
Logan International Airport. Sector one will preclude all vessels from
approaching within three hundred yards of the
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Logan International Airport shoreline, bound on the west by a line drawn
between positions 4222[min]45[sec] N., 07101[min]05[sec] W.
and 4221[min]48[sec] N., 07101[min]45[sec] W. (NAD) 1983).
(2) Sector two will go into effect 15 minutes before the vehicle
carrying the President, Vice President, or visiting heads of foreign
states or foreign governments enters the Callahan Tunnel or Sumner
Tunnel. Sector two may preclude vessels, as necessary, from entering an
area of the main ship channel, Boston Inner Harbor; fifty yards in all
directions from a point directly above the Callahan Tunnel or Sumner
Tunnel.
(3) Sector three will go into effect 15 minutes before the vehicle
carrying the President, Vice President, or visiting heads of foreign
states or foreign governments enters the Ted Williams Tunnel. Sector
three may preclude vessels, as necessary, from entering an area of the
main ship channel, Boston Inner Harbor, fifty yards in all directions
from a point directly above the Ted Williams Tunnel.
(4) Sector four will go into effect 15 minutes before the President,
Vice President, or visiting heads of foreign states or foreign
governments board the designated transport vessel. Sector four will
preclude all vessels from approaching within three hundred yards in all
directions from the designated vessel transporting the President, Vice
President, or visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments
between Logan International Airport and any location in Boston Harbor.
(5) The activation of a particular sector of this security zone will
be announced via Safety Marine Information Broadcasts and/or by locally
issued notices.
(b) Regulations. (1) The general regulations covering security zones
contained in 33 CFR 165.33 apply.
(2) All persons and vessels shall comply with the instructions of
the Coast Guard Captain of the Port or the designated on scene patrol
personnel. Coast Guard patrol personnel include commissioned, warrant,
and petty officers of the Coast Guard. Upon being hailed by a Coast
Guard vessel via siren, radio, flashing light, or other means, the
operator of a vessel shall proceed as directed.
[CGD01-97-004, 63 FR 16117, Apr. 2, 1998]