coastal waters

Defined in 6 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.

“coastal waters” means—

(A) the territorial sea of the United States;

(B) the Great Lakes and their connecting waters;

(C) the marine and estuarine waters of the United States up to the head of tidal influence; and

(D) the Exclusive Economic Zone as established by Presidential Proclamation Number 5030, dated March 10, 1983.

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1994–present 33 U.S.C. § 2601Navigation and Navigable Waters · Definitions · in this chapter

“coastal waters” means waters of the Great Lakes, including their connecting waters and those portions of rivers, streams, and other bodies of water having unimpaired connection with the open sea up to the head of tidal influence, including wetlands, intertidal areas, bays, harbors, and lagoons, including waters of the territorial sea of the United States and the contiguous zone”; 1 and

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1994–present 33 U.S.C. § 2802Navigation and Navigable Waters · Definitions · for the purposes of this chapter

each of the terms “coastal waters” and “coastal zone” has the meaning that term has in the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 [16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.];

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1994–present 16 U.S.C. § 1455BConservation · Protecting coastal waters · in this section

The term “coastal waters” has the meaning given the term in such section.

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2012–present 33 U.S.C. § 3611Navigation and Navigable Waters · Assessing and modeling named storms over coastal States · in this section

The term “coastal waters” means—

(A) for each coastal State referred to in paragraph (4)(A)—

(i) all waters, whether salt or fresh, of the coastal State shoreward of the baseline from which the territorial sea of the United States is measured; and

(ii) the waters of the coastal State seaward from the baseline referred to in clause (i) to the inner boundary of the exclusive economic zone;

(B) for the District of Columbia, those waters within its jurisdiction; and

(C) for the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, those waters of the Potomac River within the boundaries established by the Potomac River Compact of 1958.

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2000–present 16 U.S.C. § 5152Conservation · Definitions · as used in this chapter

The term “coastal waters” means (A) in the Great Lakes area, the waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States consisting of the Great Lakes, their connecting waters, harbors, roadsteads, and estuary-type areas such as bays, shallows, and marshes and (B) in other areas, those waters, adjacent to the shorelines, which contain a measurable quantity or percentage of sea water, including, but not limited to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, ponds, and estuaries.

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1994–present 16 U.S.C. § 1453Conservation · Definitions · for purposes of this chapter