Atlantic Coast Shipping Safety Act
Sponsored By: Representative Rouzer
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Summary
This bill would require the Coast Guard to formalize Atlantic Coast shipping safety fairways into regulation, creating nearshore and offshore corridors and complementary port approaches that match the agency's January 19, 2024 proposed rule.
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- Mariners and shippers: Would create clearer, official navigation corridors and port approaches along the Atlantic Coast to give more predictable routing for commercial and recreational vessels.
- Ports and coastal communities: Would establish designated nearshore and offshore fairways plus complementary port approaches to guide vessel traffic near ports and approaches.
- Coast Guard and rulemaking: Directs the Secretary to issue a regulation within one year that applies to the geographic area covered by the proposed rule. The regulation would set minimum widths for designated fairways, with exceptions for connector, cut-across, and cutoff fairways, Traffic Separation Schemes, and precautionary areas, and would take effect on December 31, 2026.
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New Atlantic Coast shipping fairways
This bill would require the Secretary in the department that runs the Coast Guard to issue a regulation within one year of enactment. The rule would designate nearshore and offshore shipping safety fairways and port approaches along the Atlantic Coast. It would set a minimum fairway width at least as wide as the Coast Guard's January 19, 2024 proposed rule (89 Fed. Reg. 3587), but that minimum would not apply to connector, cut-across, or cutoff fairways, Traffic Separation Schemes, or precautionary areas. The regulation would apply to the same geographic area as that proposed rule and would take effect on December 31, 2026. Vessel operators, shipping companies, port authorities, mariners, and coastal stakeholders would need to follow the designated fairways.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rouzer
NC • R
Cosponsors
Gillen
NY • D
Sponsored 12/3/2025
Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
GA • R
Sponsored 12/3/2025
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