[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR2.28]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 2_JURISDICTION--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart B_Jurisdictional Terms

 

Sec. 2.28  Contiguous zone.



    (a) For the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 

U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), contiguous zone means the zone, 9 nautical miles 

wide, adjacent to and seaward of the territorial sea, as defined in 

Sec. 2.22(a)(2), that was declared to exist in Department of State 

Public Notice 358 of June 1, 1972 and that extends from 3 nautical miles 

to 12 nautical miles as measured from the territorial sea baseline.

    (b) For all other purposes, contiguous zone means all waters within 

the area adjacent to and seaward of the territorial sea, as defined in 

Sec. 2.22(a), and extending to 24 nautical miles from the territorial 

sea baseline, but in no case extending within the territorial sea of



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another nation, as declared in Presidential Proclamation 7219 of 

September 2, 1999 (113 Stat. 2138).