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[CITE: 43USC2102]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                    CHAPTER 39--ABANDONED SHIPWRECKS
 
Sec. 2102. Definitions

    For purposes of this chapter--
        (a) the term ``embedded'' means firmly affixed in the submerged 
    lands or in coralline formations such that the use of tools of 
    excavation is required in order to move the bottom sediments to gain 
    access to the shipwreck, its cargo, and any part thereof;
        (b) the term ``National Register'' means the National Register 
    of Historic Places maintained by the Secretary of the Interior under 
    section 470a of title 16;
        (c) the terms ``public lands'', ``Indian lands'', and ``Indian 
    tribe'' have the same meaning given the terms in the Archaeological 
    Resource \1\ Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa-470ll);
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        (d) the term ``shipwreck'' means a vessel or wreck, its cargo, 
    and other contents;
        (e) the term ``State'' means a State of the United States, the 
    District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, 
    American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands; and
        (f) the term ``submerged lands'' means the lands--
            (1) that are ``lands beneath navigable waters,'' as defined 
        in section 1301 of this title;
            (2) of Puerto Rico, as described in section 749 of title 48;
            (3) of Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa, as 
        described in section 1705 of title 48; and
            (4) of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as 
        described in section 801 of Public Law 94-241.\2\
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(Pub. L. 100-298, Sec. 3, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 432.)

                       References in Text

    The Archaeological Resource Protection Act of 1979, referred to in 
subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 96-95, Oct. 31, 1979, 93 Stat. 721, as amended, 
which is classified generally to chapter 1B (Sec. 470aa et seq.) of 
Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 470aa of Title 16 and 
Tables.
    Section 801 of Public Law 94-241, referred to in subsec. (f)(4), 
probably means section 801 of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United 
States of America, as contained in section 1 of Pub. L. 94-241, Mar. 24, 
1976, 90 Stat. 263, which is set out as a note under section 1801 of 
Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
