[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 33CFR334.180]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

 CHAPTER II--CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                 DEFENSE

 

PART 334_DANGER ZONE AND RESTRICTED AREA REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  334.180  Patuxent River, Md.; restricted areas, U.S. Naval Air 

Test Center, Patuxent River, Md.



    (a) Except in the gut off the tip of Point Patience, no person in 

the water and no craft shall approach closer than 75 yards to the 

beaches, shoreline, or piers of the area formerly occupied by the U.S. 

Naval Mine Warfare Test Station, or of U.S. Naval Air Station property. 

A person in the water or a civilian craft shall not approach rafts, 

barges, or platforms closer than 100 yards.

    (b) Diving tenders will exhibit a square red flag with white X when 

underwater diving takes place from naval small craft. At such times, 

persons in the water and civilian craft shall stay at least 200 yards 

clear of these vessels and the civilian craft shall proceed at a speed 

not greater than five knots when within 1,000 yards thereof.

    (c) On occasions, seaplane landings and takeoffs will be practiced 

in the seadrome area north of the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent 

River. This area includes those waters of the Patuxent River between 

Town Point and Hog Point shoreward of a line described as follows: 

Beginning at a point on the shore just west of Lewis Creek, bearing 

161[deg]30[min] true, 2,000 yards from Patuxent River Light 8; thence to 

a point bearing 130[deg] true, 1,850 yards from Patuxent River Light 8; 

thence to a piont bearing 247[deg]30[min] true, 3,650 yards from Drum 

Point Light 2; thence to point bearing 235[deg] true, 2,060 yards from 

Drum Point Light 2; thence to a point bearing 129[deg] true, 700 yards 

from Drum Point Light 2; thence to a point bearing 137[deg] true, 1,060 

yards from Drum Point Light 2; and thence to a point on the shore west 

of Harper Creek entrance, bearing 158[deg]30[min] true, 1,900 yards from 

Drum Point Light 2.



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    (d) The regulations in this section shall be enforced by the 

Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., and 

such agencies as he may designate.



[30 FR 4198, Mar. 31, 1965, as amended at 48 FR 54598, Dec. 6, 1983. 

Redesignated at 50 FR 42696, Oct. 22, 1985]