Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102

§1107 Definitions

Title 33 › CHAPTER 22 — SEA GRANT COLLEGES AND MARINE SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — MARINE RESOURCES AND ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT › § 1107

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines "marine science" as ocean studies plus the related engineering and technology used with the marine environment. Defines "marine environment" to mean the oceans, the U.S. Continental Shelf, the Great Lakes, the seabed and under‑soil of submarine areas next to U.S. coasts to a depth of 200 meters (or deeper if the overlying water is deep enough to allow resource use), similar submarine areas by U.S. islands, and the resources there.

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Title 33, §1107

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “marine science” shall be deemed to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors and disciplines, and engineering and technology in and with relation to the marine environment; and the term “marine environment” shall be deemed to include (a) the oceans, (b) the Continental Shelf of the United States, (c) the Great Lakes, (d) seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to the depth of two hundred meters, or beyond that limit, to where the depths of the superjacent waters admit of the exploitation of the natural resources of such areas, (e) the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of islands which comprise United States territory, and (f) the resources thereof.

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1966—Pub. L. 89–688 substituted “this title” for “this Act”, which, for purposes of codification, has been changed to “this subchapter”.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1107

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102