[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: 33CFR334.340]



[Page 525-526]

 

                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.  334.340  Chesapeake Bay off Plumtree Island, Hampton, Va.; Air 

Force precision test area.



    (a) The danger zone. The waters of Chesapeake Bay and connecting 

waters



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within an area bounded as follows: Beginning at latitude 

37[deg]08[min]12[sec], longitude 76[deg]19[min]30[sec], which is a point 

on the circumference of a circle of 10,000-foot radius with its center 

on Plumtree Point at latitude 37[deg]07[min]30[sec], longitude 

76[deg]17[min]36[sec]; thence clockwise along the circumference of the 

circle to latitude 37[deg]09[min]06[sec], longitude 

76[deg]18[min]00[sec]; thence southeasterly to latitude 

37[deg]08[min]12[sec], longitude 76[deg]17[min]48[sec]; thence clockwise 

along the circumference of a circle of 4,000-foot radius (with its 

center at latitude 37[deg]07[min]30[sec], longitude 

76[deg]17[min]36[sec]) to latitude 37[deg]07[min]48[sec], longitude 

76[deg]18[min]24[sec]; thence northwesterly to the point of beginning.

    (b) The regulations. (1) The danger zone will be in use not more 

than a total of 4 hours per month, which hours shall be during not more 

than any 2 days per month.

    (2) No person or vessel shall enter or remain in the danger zone 

during periods of firing or bombing or when the zone is otherwise in 

use.

    (3) The Commander, Tactical Air Command, Langley Air Force Base, 

Va., shall be responsible for publicizing in advance through the Coast 

Guard's ``Local Notice to Mariners,'' in the local press, and by radio 

from time to time the schedule of use of the area, and shall station 

patrol boats to warn vessels during periods of use.

    (4) This section shall be enforced by the Commander, Tactical Air 

Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va., or such agency as he may 

designate.

    (c) Disestablishment of danger zone. The danger zone will be 

disestablished not later than December 31, 1967, unless written 

application for its continuance shall have been made to and approved by 

the Secretary of the Army prior to that date.



[28 FR 1106, Feb. 5, 1963. Redesignated at 50 FR 42696, Oct. 22, 1985, 

as amended at 62 FR 17553, Apr. 10, 1997]