[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR404.7]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
CHAPTER IV--JOINT REGULATIONS (UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, 
 
PART 404_NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT--Table 
 
Sec. 404.7   Regulated activities.

    Except as provided in Sec. Sec. 404.8, 404.9 and 404.10, the 
following activities are prohibited and thus unlawful for any person to 
conduct or cause to be conducted within the Monument without a valid 
permit as provided for in Sec. 404.11:
    (a) Removing, moving, taking, harvesting, possessing, injuring, 
disturbing, or damaging; or attempting to remove, move, take, harvest, 
possess, injure, disturb, or damage any living or nonliving Monument 
resource;
    (b) Drilling into, dredging, or otherwise altering the submerged 
lands other than by anchoring a vessel; or constructing, placing, or 
abandoning any structure, material, or other matter on the submerged 
lands;
    (c) Anchoring a vessel;
    (d) Deserting a vessel aground, at anchor, or adrift;
    (e) Discharging or depositing any material or other matter into 
Special Preservation Areas or the Midway Atoll Special Management Area 
except vessel engine cooling water, weather deck runoff, and vessel 
engine exhaust;
    (f) Discharging or depositing any material or other matter into the 
Monument, or discharging or depositing any material or other matter 
outside the Monument that subsequently enters the Monument and injures 
any resources of the Monument, except fish parts (i.e., chumming 
material or bait) used in and during authorized fishing operations, or 
discharges incidental to vessel use such as deck wash, approved marine 
sanitation device effluent, cooling water, and engine exhaust;
    (g) Touching coral, living or dead;
    (h) Possessing fishing gear except when stowed and not available for 
immediate use during passage without interruption through the Monument;
    (i) Swimming, snorkeling, or closed or open circuit SCUBA diving 
within any Special Preservation Area or the Midway Atoll Special 
Management Area; and

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    (j) Attracting any living Monument resource.