[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR761.9]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 761_NAVAL DEFENSIVE SEA AREAS; NAVAL AIRSPACE RESERVATIONS, AREAS 
 
                      Subpart C_Entry Authorization
 
Sec. 761.9  Entry Control Commanders.

    The following commanders are designated Entry Control Commanders 
with authority to approve or disapprove individual entry authorizations 
for persons, ships, or aircraft as indicated (Commander Seventeenth 
Coast Guard District has been designated an Entry Control Commander by 
the authority of the Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard and Commander, Western 
Area, U.S. Coast Guard);
    (a) Chief of Naval Operations. Authorization for all persons, ships, 
or aircraft to enter all defense areas.

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    (b) Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Authorization for all 
persons, ships, or aircraft to enter defense areas in the Atlantic.
    (c) Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Authorization for all 
persons, ships, or aircraft to enter defense areas in the Pacific.
    (d) Commander U.S. Naval Forces Caribbean. Authorization for all 
persons, ships, and aircraft to enter the Guantanamo Bay Naval Defensive 
Sea Area and the Guantanamo Naval Airspace Reservation. (This authority 
delegated to Commander U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay.)
    (e) Commander U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay. Authorization for all 
persons, ships, and aircraft to enter the Guantanamo Bay Naval Defensive 
Sea Area and the Guantanamo Naval Airspace Reservation.
    (f) Commander Third Fleet. Authorization for U.S. citizens and U.S. 
registered private vessels to enter Midway Island, Kingman Reef, Kaneohe 
Bay Naval Defensive Sea Area, Pearl Harbor Defensive Sea Area and 
Filipino workers employed by U.S. contractors to enter Wake Island.
    (g) Commander U.S. Naval Forces, Marianas. Authorization in 
conjunction with the High Commissioner, for non-U.S. citizens, ships, or 
aircraft documented under laws other than those of the United States or 
the Trust Territory to enter those portions of the Trust Territory where 
entry is not controlled by the Department of the Army or the Defense 
Nuclear Agency.
    (h) Senior naval commander in defense area. Emergency authorization 
for persons, ships, or aircraft in cases of emergency or distress. In 
all cases the Chief of Naval Operations, and as appropriate, the 
Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet or the Commander in Chief, U.S. 
Pacific Fleet, and other interested commands, shall be informed 
immediately of the nature of the emergency, and action taken.
    (i) U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard regulates the movement of 
shipping within the Honolulu Harbor under the authority of Executive 
Orders 10173 and 10289; such shipping is considered to be under U.S. 
authorized supervision within the meaning of Executive Order 8987. The 
Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, as representative of the 
Secretary of the Navy, retains responsibility for security of the 
Honolulu Defensive Sea Area, as required by naval interest, and, as 
such, issues amplifying instructions relating to the Honolulu Defensive 
Sea Area.

[41 FR 28958, July 14, 1976]