[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: 33CFR2.30]



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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. 2.30  Exclusive Economic Zone.



    (a) With respect to the United States, including the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, 

American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and any other 

territory or possession over which the United States exercises 

sovereignty, exclusive economic zone means the zone seaward of and 

adjacent to the territorial sea, as defined in Sec. 2.22(a), including 

the contiguous zone, and extending 200 nautical miles from the 

territorial sea baseline (except where otherwise limited by treaty or 

other agreement recognized by the United States) in which the United 

States has the sovereign rights and jurisdiction and all nations have 

the high seas freedoms mentioned in Presidential Proclamation 5030 of 

March 10, 1983.

    (b) Under customary international law as reflected in Article 56 of 

the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and with 

respect to other nations, exclusive economic zone means the waters 

seaward of and adjacent to the territorial sea, not extending beyond 200 

nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline, as recognized by the 

United States.