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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 48 — Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration

§ 3505. Effect on other laws

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or alter the existing authorities of any Federal agency with respect to ocean and coastal mapping.

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. Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act

    Pub. L. 111–11 title XII § 12208 · 123 Stat. 991

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3505

    Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12208, formerly § 12206, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1426

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12208, formerly § 12206, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1426

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 12208. DEFINITIONS.   In this subtitle: (1) Administrator.— The term “Administrator’ ” means the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2) Coastal state.— The term “coastal state” has the meaning given that term by section 304(4) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453(4). (3) Committee.— The term “Committee” means the Interagency Ocean and Coastal Mapping Committee established by section 12203. (4) Exclusive economic zone.— The term “exclusive economic zone” means the exclusive economic zone of the United States established by Presidential Proclamation No. 5030, of March 10, 1983. (5) Ocean and coastal mapping.— The term “ocean and coastal mapping” means the acquisition, processing, and management of physical, biological, geological, chemical, and archaeological characteristics and boundaries of ocean and coastal areas, resources, and sea beds through the use of acoustics, satellites, aerial photogrammetry, light and imaging, direct sampling, and other mapping technologies. (6) Territorial sea.— The term “territorial sea” means the belt of sea measured from the baseline of the United States determined in accordance with international law, as set forth in Presidential Proclamation Number 5928, dated December 27, 1988. (7) Nongovernmental entities.— The term “nongovernmental entities” includes nongovernmental organizations, members of the academic community, and private sector organizations that provide products and services associated with measuring, locating, and preparing maps, charts, surveys, aerial photographs, satellite imagines, or other graphical or digital presentations depicting natural or manmade physical features, phenomena, and legal boundaries of the Earth. (8) Outer continental shelf.— The term “Outer Continental Shelf” means all submerged lands lying seaward and outside of lands beneath navigable waters (as that term is defined in section 2 of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1301)), and of which the subsoil and seabed appertain to the United States and are subject to its jurisdiction and control.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 12208 of Pub. L. 111–11 was renumbered 12210 is classified to section 3507 of this title.

Credits

2009–2022 · 2 acts
  1. 2009Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12208, formerly § 12206, , 123 Stat. 1426
  2. 2022renumbered § 12208, Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10307(e)(1), , 136 Stat. 3978.
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(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12208, formerly § 12206, , 123 Stat. 1426; renumbered § 12208, Pub. L. 117–263, div. J, title CIII, § 10307(e)(1), , 136 Stat. 3978.)

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