Territorial Sea Extension: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography and Great Lakes of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on Examination of the President's Proclamation Extending the Territorial Sea of the United States from 3- to 12-miles, March 21, 1989 |
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12 miles 12 nautical miles 12-mile territorial sea Alaska amendment authority bill California Coastal Commission Chairman Coast Guard Coastal Commission Coastal Zone Management CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consistency provisions contiguous zone CZMA December 27 definition domestic law Douglas March 15 effect Exclusive Economic Zone expanded territorial sea extend the territorial Federal Government Federal law Fishery Conservation HERTEL impact intended international law issues jurisdiction Justice Department legislative history LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Magnuson Act Merchant Marine mile zone national security nautical miles ocean policy ocean resources oil and gas Outer Continental Shelf outer limit Peter Douglas Peter Douglas March President Presidential Proclamation Proclamation extending questions regulations seaward boundary Senate Shumway sone sovereignty statement statutes SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY Submerged Lands Act term territorial sea territorial sea extension Territorial Sea Proclamation Thank three miles three-mile limit twelve miles U.S. Representative U.S. territorial sea United States territorial vessels Zone Management Act
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Page 43 - ... between points in the United States, including Districts, Territories, and possessions thereof embraced within the coastwise laws, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the transportation, in any other vessel than a vessel built in and documented under the laws of the United States...
Page 47 - ... other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds...
Page 47 - The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the sea-bed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance.
Page 69 - Nothing in this Proclamation: (a) extends or otherwise alters existing Federal or State law or any jurisdiction, rights, legal interests, or obligations derived therefrom...
Page 52 - The key to more effective protection and use of the land and water resources of the coastal zone is to encourage the states to exercise their full authority over the lands and waters in the coastal zone...
Page 153 - America, do hereby proclaim the following policy of the United States of America with respect to the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental shelf.
Page 95 - Conservation and management measures shall not discriminate between residents of different States. If it becomes necessary to allocate or assign fishing privileges among various United States fishermen, such allocation shall be (A) fair and equitable to all such fishermen; (B) reasonably calculated to promote conservation; and (C) carried out in such...
Page 58 - The inner boundary of the fishery conservation zone is a line coterminous with the seaward boundary of each of the coastal States, and the outer boundary of such zone is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured.
Page 129 - ... transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands, and beaches. The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international boundary between the United States and Canada and, in other areas, seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial sea. The zone extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on the coastal waters.
Page 146 - ... be interpreted as extending from the coast line more than three geographical miles into the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, or more than three marine leagues into the Gulf of Mexico ; (c) The term "coast line...