[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 15CFR921.2]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                               OF COMMERCE

 

PART 921_NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE SYSTEM REGULATIONS--Table 

of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 921.2  Definitions.



    (a) Act means the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, 

16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.

    (b) Assistant Administrator means the Assistant Administrator for 

Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management or delegee.

    (c) Coastal state means a state of the United States, in or 

bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of 

Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more of the Great Lakes. For the 

purposes of these regulations the term also includes Puerto Rico, the 

Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, 

the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa (see 16 

U.S.C. 1453(4)).



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    (d) State agency means an instrumentality of a coastal state to whom 

the coastal state has delegated the authority and responsibility for the 

creation and/or management/operation of a National Estuarine Research 

Reserve. Factors indicative of this authority may include the power to 

receive and expend funds on behalf of the Reserve, acquire and sell or 

convey real and personal property interests, adopt rules for the 

protection of the Reserve, enforce rules applicable to the Reserve, or 

develop and implement research and education programs for the reserve. 

For the purposes of these regulations, the terms ``coastal state'' and 

``State agency'' shall be synonymous.

    (e) Estuary means that part of a river or stream or other body of 

water having unimpaired connection with the open sea, where the sea 

water is measurably diluted with fresh water derived from land drainage. 

The term also includes estuary-type areas with measurable freshwater 

influence and having unimpaired connections with the open sea, and 

estuary-type areas of the Great Lakes and their connecting waters (see 

16 U.S.C. 1453(7)).

    (f) National Estuarine Research Reserve means an area that is a 

representative estuarine ecosystem suitable for long-term research, 

which may include all of the key land and water portion of an estuary, 

and adjacent transitional areas and uplands constituting to the extent 

feasible a natural unit, and which is set aside as a natural field 

laboratory to provide long-term opportunities for research, education, 

and interpretation on the ecological relationships within the area (see 

16 U.S.C. 1453(8)) and meets the requirements of 16 U.S.C. 1461(b). This 

includes those areas designated as National Estuarine Sanctuaries or 

Reserves under section 315 of the Act prior to enactment of the Coastal 

Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 and each area subsequently 

designated as a National Estuarine Research Reserve.