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Terms used in this part shall have the following meaning:

Clean Vessel Act or Act. The Clean Vessel Act (Pub. L. 102-587, subtitle F).

Coastal State. A State of the United States in, or bordering on, the Atlantic,
Pacific, or Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, or one or more
of the Great Lakes. The term also includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The term excludes
Alaska and American Samoa because these States have a ratio of the number of
recreational vessels in the State numbered under chapter 123 of title 46, United
States Code, to number of miles of shoreline (as that term is defined in §
926.2(d) of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on January 1,
1991), of less than one.

Coastal waters. 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. In other areas, those waters, adjacent to the shorelines,
which contain a measurable percentage of sea water, including sounds, bays,
lagoons, bayous, ponds, and estuaries.

Coastal zone. Coastal zone has the same meaning that the term has in section
304(1) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 1453(1)). The
coastal zone consists of coastal waters (including the lands therein and
thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands, including islands, 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 and protect coastal waters.

Construction. Activities which produce new capital improvements and increase the
value of usefulness of existing property.
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