[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR922.91]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 922_NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY PROGRAM REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart I_Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary
 
Sec. 922.91  Prohibited or otherwise regulated activities.

    (a) Except as may be necessary for national defense (subject to the 
terms and conditions of Article 5, Section 2 of the Designation 
Document) or to respond to an emergency threatening life, property, or 
the environment, or except as may be permitted by the Director in 
accordance with Sec. 922.48 and Sec. 922.92, the following activities 
are prohibited and thus are unlawful for any person to conduct or to 
cause to be conducted within the Sanctuary:
    (1) Dredging, drilling, or otherwise altering the seabed in any way 
nor constructing any structure other than a navigation aid.
    (2) Discharging or depositing any material or other matter except:
    (i) Fish or parts, bait, and chumming materials;
    (ii) Effluent from marine sanitation devices; and
    (iii) Vessel cooling waters.
    (3) Operating a watercraft other than in accordance with the Federal 
rules and regulations that would apply if there were no Sanctuary.
    (4) Using, placing, or possessing wire fish traps.
    (5) Using a bottom trawl, specimen dredge, or similar vessel-towed 
bottom sampling device.
    (6)(i)(A) Breaking, cutting, or similarly damaging, taking, or 
removing any bottom formation, marine invertebrate, or marine plant.
    (B) Taking any tropical fish.
    (C) Using poisons, electric charges, explosives, or similar methods 
to take any marine animal not otherwise prohibited to be taken.
    (ii) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any bottom 
formation, marine invertebrate, tropical fish, marine plant, or marine 
animal found in the possession of a person within the Sanctuary have 
been collected within or removed from the Sanctuary.
    (7) Tampering with, damaging, or removing any historic or cultural 
resources.
    (b) All activities currently carried out by the Department of 
Defense within the Sanctuary are essential for

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the national defense and, therefore, not subject to the prohibitions in 
this section. The exemption of additional activities having significant 
impacts shall be determined in consultation between the Director and the 
Department of Defense.