§ 1122. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1122]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 22--SEA GRANT COLLEGES AND MARINE SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT
SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM
Sec. 1122. Definitions
As used in this subchapter--
(1) The term ``Administration'' means the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
(2) The term ``Director'' means the Director of the national sea
grant college program, appointed pursuant to section 1123(b) \1\ of
this title.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(3) the \2\ term ``director of a sea grant college'' means a
person designated by his or her institution to direct a sea grant
college or sea grant institute.
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\2\ So in original. Probably should be capitalized.
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(4) The term ``field related to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes
resources'' means any discipline or field, including marine affairs,
resource management, technology, education, or science, which is
concerned with or likely to improve the understanding, assessment,
development, utilization, or conservation of ocean, coastal, or
Great Lakes resources.
(5) The term ``institution'' means any public or private
institution of higher education, institute, laboratory, or State or
local agency.
(6) The term ``includes'' and variants thereof should be read as
if the phrase ``but is not limited to'' were also set forth.
(7) The term ``ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources'' means
the resources that are located in, derived from, or traceable to,
the seabed, subsoil, and waters of--
(A) the coastal zone, as defined in section 1453(1) of title
16;
(B) the Great Lakes;
(C) Lake Champlain (to the extent that such resources have
hydrological, biological, physical, or geological
characteristics and problems similar or related to those of the
Great Lakes);
(D) the territorial sea;
(E) the exclusive economic zone;
(F) the Outer Continental Shelf; and
(G) the high seas.
(8) The term ``resource'' means--
(A) living resources (including natural and cultured plant
life, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and wildlife);
(B) nonliving resources (including energy sources, minerals,
and chemical substances);
(C) the habitat of a living resource, the coastal space, the
ecosystems, the nutrient-rich areas, and the other components of
the marine environment that contribute to or provide (or which
are capable of contributing to or providing) recreational,
scenic, esthetic, biological, habitational, commercial,
economic, or conservation values; and
(D) man-made, tangible, intangible, actual, or potential
resources.
(9) The term ``panel'' means the sea grant review panel
established under section 1128 of this title.
(10) The term ``person'' means any individual; any public or
private corporation, partnership, or other association or entity
(including any sea grant college, sea grant institute or other
institution); or any State, political subdivision of a State, or
agency or officer thereof.
(11) The term ``project'' means any individually described
activity in a field related to ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes
resources involving research, education, training, or advisory
services administered by a person with expertise in such a field.
(12) The term ``sea grant college'' means any institution, or
any association or alliance of two or more such institutions,
designated as such by the Secretary under section 1126 of this
title.
(13) The term ``sea grant institute'' means any institution, or
any association or alliance of two or more such institutions,
designated as such by the Secretary under section 1126 of this
title.
(14) The term ``sea grant program'' means a program of research
and outreach which is administered by one or more sea grant colleges
or sea grant institutes.
(15) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Commerce,
acting through the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and
Atmosphere.
(16) The term ``State'' means any State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Mariana Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United
States.
(Pub. L. 89-454, title II, Sec. 203, as added Pub. L. 89-688, Sec. 1,
Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 999; amended Pub. L. 90-477, Sec. 1(1), Aug. 11,
1968, 82 Stat. 704; Pub. L. 91-349, July 23, 1970, 84 Stat. 448; Pub. L.
93-73, Sec. 1(1), (5), July 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 170; Pub. L. 94-461,
Sec. 2, Oct. 8, 1976, 90 Stat. 1962; Pub. L. 95-428, Sec. 2(b), Oct. 7,
1978, 92 Stat. 999; Pub. L. 96-289, Sec. 1(1), June 28, 1980, 94 Stat.
605; Pub. L. 100-220, title II, Sec. 3104(a), (b)(1)(C), Dec. 29, 1987,
101 Stat. 1470; Pub. L. 102-186, Sec. 5(b)(1), Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat.
1284; Pub. L. 102-251, title III, Sec. 307(a), Mar. 9, 1992, 106 Stat.
66; Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a), Mar. 6, 1998, 112 Stat. 21; Pub. L. 105-
174, title III, Sec. 10003, May 1, 1998, 112 Stat. 99.)
Amendment of Section
Pub. L. 102-251, title III, Secs. 307(a), 308, Mar. 9, 1992, 106
Stat. 66, provided that, effective on the date on which the
Agreement between the United States and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990,
enters into force for the United States, with authority to prescribe
implementing regulations effective Mar. 9, 1992, but with no such
regulation to be effective until the date on which the Agreement
enters into force for the United States, paragraph (6) of this
section is amended:
(1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (E);
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph (G); and
(3) by inserting immediately after subparagraph (E) the
following new subparagraph:
(F) the areas referred to as eastern special areas in Article 3(1)
of the Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1,
1990; in particular, those areas east of the maritime boundary, as
defined in that Agreement, that lie within 200 nautical miles of the
baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of Russia is
measured but beyond 200 nautical miles of the baselines from which the
breadth of the territorial sea of the United States is measured; and
References in Text
Section 1123 of this title, referred to in par. (2), was amended
generally by Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 5, Mar. 6, 1998, 112 Stat. 22, and,
as so amended, provisions relating to appointment of the Director of the
National Sea Grant College Program, which formerly appeared in subsec.
(b), are contained in subsec. (d).
Amendments
1998--Par. (3). Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(1), substituted ``his or
her'' for ``their university or'' and ``college or sea grant institute''
for ``college, programs, or regional consortium''.
Par. (4). Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(2), added par. (4) and struck
out former par. (4) which read as follows: ``The term `field related to
ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources' means any discipline or field
(including marine science (and the physical, natural, and biological
sciences, and engineering, included therein), marine technology,
education, marine affairs and resource management, economics, sociology,
communications, planning, law, international affairs, and public
administration) which is concerned with or likely to improve the
understanding, assessment, development, utilization, or conservation of
ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources.''
Par. (5). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003(1), redesignated par. (6) as
(5) and struck out former par. (5) which read as follows: ``The term
`Great Lakes' includes Lake Champlain.''
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), added par. (5). Former par. (5)
redesignated (7).
Par. (6). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003(1), redesignated par. (7) as
(6). Former par. (6) redesignated (5).
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), added par. (6). Former par. (6)
redesignated (8).
Par. (7). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003, redesignated par. (8) as (7),
added subpar. (C), and redesignated former subpars. (C) to (F) as (D) to
(G), respectively. Former par. (7) redesignated (6).
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), redesignated par. (5) as (7). Former
par. (7) redesignated (9).
Pars. (8) to (10). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003(1), redesignated
pars. (9) to (11) as (8) to (10), respectively. Former par. (8)
redesignated (7).
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), redesignated pars. (6) to (8) as (8)
to (10), respectively. Former pars. (9) and (10) redesignated (11) and
(12), respectively.
Par. (11). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003(1), redesignated par. (12) as
(11). Former par. (11) redesignated (10).
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), redesignated par. (9) as (11)
and substituted ``institute or other institution'' for ``regional
consortium, institution of higher education, institute, or laboratory''.
Former par. (11) redesignated (13).
Pars. (12) to (17). Pub. L. 105-174, Sec. 10003(1), redesignated
pars. (13) to (17) as (12) to (16), respectively. Former par. (12)
redesignated (11).
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(5), added pars. (12) to (17) and struck
out former pars. (12) to (17) which defined ``sea grant college'', ``sea
grant program'', ``sea grant regional consortium'', ``Secretary'',
``State'', and ``Under Secretary'', respectively.
Pub. L. 105-160, Sec. 4(a)(3), redesignated pars. (10) to (15) as
(12) to (17), respectively.
1991--Par. (4). Pub. L. 102-186 inserted ``marine affairs and
resource management,'' after ``education,''.
1987--Pars. (2), (3). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(a)(1), (2), added
par. (3), redesignated former par. (3) as (2), and struck out former
par. (2) which read as follows: ``The term `Administrator' means the
Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.''
Par. (4). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(b)(1)(C), substituted ``ocean,
coastal, and Great Lakes resources'' for ``ocean and coastal resources''
in two places.
Par. (6). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(a)(3), added par. (6) and
struck out former par. (6) which read as follows: ``The term `marine
environment' means the coastal zone, as defined in section 1453(1) of
title 16; the seabed, subsoil, and waters of the Great Lakes and the
territorial sea of the United States; the waters of any zone over which
the United States asserts exclusive fishery management authority; the
waters of the high seas; and the seabed and subsoil of and beyond the
outer Continental Shelf.''
Par. (7). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(a)(3), added par. (7) and
struck out former par. (7) which read as follows: ``The term `ocean and
coastal resource' means any resource (whether living, nonliving,
manmade, tangible, intangible, actual, or potential) which is located
in, derived from, or traceable to, the marine environment. Such term
includes the habitat of any such living resource, the coastal space, the
ecosystems, the nutrient-rich areas, and the other components of the
marine environment which contribute to or provide (or which are capable
of contributing to or providing) recreational, scenic, esthetic,
biological, habitational, commercial, economic, or conservation values.
Living resources include natural and cultured plant life, fish,
shellfish, marine mammals, and wildlife. Nonliving resources include
energy sources, minerals, and chemical substances.''
Par. (11). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(b)(1)(C), substituted ``ocean,
coastal, and Great Lakes resources'' for ``ocean and coastal
resources''.
Par. (15). Pub. L. 100-220, Sec. 3104(a)(4), added par. (15).
1980--Par. (6). Pub. L. 96-289 extended term ``marine environment''
to include waters of Great Lakes.
1978--Pub. L. 95-428 substituted ``national sea grant college
program'' for ``national sea grant program''.
1976--Pub. L. 94-461 substituted provisions defining terms used in
this subchapter for provisions designating Secretary of Commerce as
administering authority for national sea grant program and authorizing
appropriations through fiscal 1976.
1973--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-73, Sec. 1(5), substituted ``Secretary
of Commerce'' and ``Secretary'' for ``National Science Foundation'' and
``Foundation'', respectively.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 93-73, Sec. 1(1), (5), authorized
appropriations of $30,000,000; $40,000,000; and $50,000,000 for fiscal
years ending June 30, 1974, 1975, and 1976, and substituted
``Secretary'' for ``Foundation''.
1970--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 91-349 authorized appropriations for
fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, not to exceed the sum of $20,000,000,
for fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, not to exceed the sum of
$25,000,000, and for fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, not to exceed the
sum of $30,000,000.
1968--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 90-477 authorized appropriations for
fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, not to exceed the sum of $6,000,000,
and for fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, not to exceed the sum of
$15,000,000.
Effective Date of 1992 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 102-251 effective on date on which Agreement
between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on
the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1, 1990, enters into force for United
States, with authority to prescribe implementing regulations effective
Mar. 9, 1992, but with no such regulation to be effective until date on
which Agreement enters into force for United States, see section 308 of
Pub. L. 102-251, set out as a note under section 773 of Title 16,
Conservation.
Territorial Sea of United States
For extension of territorial sea of United States, see Proc. No.
5928, set out as a note under section 1331 of Title 43, Public Lands.
