[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 8, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 48701-48702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23460]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 173 / Wednesday, August 8, 1999 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7219 of August 2, 1999
Contiguous Zone of the United States
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
International law recognizes that coastal nations may
establish zones contiguous to their territorial seas,
known as contiguous zones.
The contiguous zone of the United States is a zone
contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States,
in which the United States may exercise the control
necessary to prevent infringement of its customs,
fiscal, immigration, or sanitary laws and regulations
within its territory or territorial sea, and to punish
infringement of the above laws and regulations
committed within its territory or territorial sea.
Extension of the contiguous zone of the United States
to the limits permitted by international law will
advance the law enforcement and public health interests
of the United States. Moreover, this extension is an
important step in preventing the removal of cultural
heritage found within 24 nautical miles of the
baseline.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, by the authority
vested in me as President by the Constitution of the
United States, and in accordance with international
law, do hereby proclaim the extension of the contiguous
zone of the United States of America, including the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the
United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or
possession over which the United States exercises
sovereignty, as follows:
The contiguous zone of the United States extends to 24
nautical miles from the baselines of the United States
determined in accordance with international law, but in
no case within the territorial sea of another nation.
In accordance with international law, reflected in the
applicable provisions of the 1982 Convention on the Law
of the Sea, within the contiguous zone of the United
States the ships and aircraft of all countries enjoy
the high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight and
the laying of submarine cables and pipelines, and other
internationally lawful uses of the sea related to those
freedoms, such as those associated with the operation
of ships, aircraft, and submarine cables and pipelines,
and compatible with the other provisions of
international law reflected in the 1982 Convention on
the Law of the Sea.
Nothing in this proclamation:
(a)L amends existing Federal or State law;
(b)L amends or otherwise alters the rights and
duties of the United States or other nations in the
Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States
established by Proclamation 5030 of March 10, 1983; or
(c)L impairs the determination, in accordance with
international law, of any maritime boundary of the
United States with a foreign jurisdiction.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
second day of September, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twenty-fourth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 99-23460
Filed 9-7-99; 8:45 am]
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