§ 3407. Definitions

Statutory text

In this subchapter:

Characterization

The terms “characterization”, “characterize”, and “characterizing” mean activities that provide comprehensive data and interpretations for a specific area of interest of the sea floor, sub-bottom, water column, or hydrologic features, such as water masses and currents, in direct support of specific research, environmental protection, resource management, policymaking, or applied mission objectives.

Exploration

The term 1 “exploration”, “explore”, and “exploring” means 1 activities that provide—

a multidisciplinary view of an unknown or poorly understood area of the sea floor, sub-bottom, or water column; and

an initial assessment of the physical, chemical, geological, biological, archaeological, or other characteristics of such an area.

Mapping

The terms “map” and “mapping” mean activities that provide comprehensive data and information needed to understand sea floor characteristics, including depth, topography, bottom type, sediment composition and distribution, underlying geologic structure, and benthic flora and fauna.

Footnotes

1 So in original. Probably should be “terms” and “mean”.

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.

2022
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
Pub. L. 111–11 title XII § 12007 · 123 Stat. 991
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3407
(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12007, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10305(h), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3974.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12007, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10305(h), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3974.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12007, as added Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10305(h), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3974.)