[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: 15CFR922.44]



[Page 124]

 

                  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 E_Regulations of General Applicability

 

Sec. 922.44  Emergency regulations.



    Where necessary to prevent or minimize the destruction of, loss of, 

or injury to a Sanctuary resource or quality, or minimize the imminent 

risk of such destruction, loss, or injury, any and all such activities 

are subject to immediate temporary regulation, including prohibition. 

The provisions of this section do not apply to the Cordell Bank, Florida 

Keys, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale, and Thunder Bay National Marine 

Sanctuaries. See Sec. Sec. 922.111(c), 922.165, and 922.186, 922.196, 

respectively, for the authority to issue emergency regulations with 

respect to those sanctuaries.



[65 FR 39055, June 22, 2000]