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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 67 — Arctic Research and Policy

§ 4111. “Arctic” defined

Statutory text

As used in this chapter, the term “Arctic” means all United States and foreign territory north of the Arctic Circle and all United States territory north and west of the boundary formed by the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers; all contiguous seas, including the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi Seas; and the Aleutian chain.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–373 title I § 112 · 98 Stat. 1242

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 4111

    (Pub. L. 98–373, title I, § 112, July 31, 1984, 98 Stat. 1248.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–373, title I, § 112, July 31, 1984, 98 Stat. 1248.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 112. definition As used in this title, the term “Arctic” means all United States and foreign territory north of the Arctic Circle and all United States territory north and west of the boundary formed by the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers; all contiguous seas, including the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi Seas; and the Aleutian chain.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–373, title I, § 112, , 98 Stat. 1248.)

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