[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: 15CFR922.91]



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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 I_Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary

 

Sec. 922.91  Prohibited or otherwise regulated activities.



    (a) Except as may be necessary for national defense (subject to the 

terms and conditions of Article 5, Section 2 of the Designation 

Document) or to respond to an emergency threatening life, property, or 

the environment, or except as may be permitted by the Director in 

accordance with Sec. 922.48 and Sec. 922.92, the following activities 

are prohibited and thus are unlawful for any person to conduct or to 

cause to be conducted within the Sanctuary:

    (1) Dredging, drilling, or otherwise altering the seabed in any way 

nor constructing any structure other than a navigation aid.

    (2) Discharging or depositing any material or other matter except:

    (i) Fish or parts, bait, and chumming materials;

    (ii) Effluent from marine sanitation devices; and

    (iii) Vessel cooling waters.

    (3) Operating a watercraft other than in accordance with the Federal 

rules and regulations that would apply if there were no Sanctuary.

    (4) Using, placing, or possessing wire fish traps.

    (5) Using a bottom trawl, specimen dredge, or similar vessel-towed 

bottom sampling device.

    (6)(i)(A) Breaking, cutting, or similarly damaging, taking, or 

removing any bottom formation, marine invertebrate, or marine plant.

    (B) Taking any tropical fish.

    (C) Using poisons, electric charges, explosives, or similar methods 

to take any marine animal not otherwise prohibited to be taken.

    (ii) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any bottom 

formation, marine invertebrate, tropical fish, marine plant, or marine 

animal found in the possession of a person within the Sanctuary have 

been collected within or removed from the Sanctuary.

    (7) Tampering with, damaging, or removing any historic or cultural 

resources.

    (b) All activities currently carried out by the Department of 

Defense within the Sanctuary are essential for



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the national defense and, therefore, not subject to the prohibitions in 

this section. The exemption of additional activities having significant 

impacts shall be determined in consultation between the Director and the 

Department of Defense.