[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: 15CFR922.80]



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                  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 H_Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

 

Sec. 922.80  Boundary.





    (a) The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) 

consists of an area of the waters adjacent to the coast of California 

north and south of the Point Reyes Headlands, between Bodega Head and 

Rocky Point and the Farallon Islands (including Noonday Rock), and 

includes approximately 948 square nautical miles (NM). The boundary 

coordinates are listed in Appendix A to this subpart.

    (b) The shoreward boundary follows the mean high tide line and the 

seaward limit of Point Reyes National Seashore. Between Bodega Head and 

Point Reyes Headlands, the Sanctuary extends seaward 3 NM beyond State 

waters. The Sanctuary also includes the waters within 12 NM of the 

Farallon Islands, and between the Islands and the mainland from Point 

Reyes Headlands to Rocky Point. The Sanctuary includes Bodega Bay, but 

not Bodega Harbor.