Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 20 > Chapter 48 > Subchapter III - Transfers of Agencies and Functions

• adjacent coastal State: means any coastal State which (A) would be directly connected by pipeline to a deepwater port, as proposed in an application. See 33 USC 1502
• affiliate: means any entity owned or controlled by, any person who owns or controls, or any entity which is under common ownership or control with an applicant, licensee, or any person required to be disclosed pursuant to section 1504(c)(2)(A) or (B) of this title. See 33 USC 1502
• application: means an application submitted under this Act for a license for the ownership, construction, and operation of a deepwater port. See 33 USC 1502
• coastal environment: means the navigable waters (including the lands therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelines including ¹ waters therein and thereunder). See 33 USC 1502
• coastal State: means any State of the United States in or bordering on the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic Oceans, or the Gulf of Mexico. See 33 USC 1502
• construction: means the supervising, inspection, actual building, and all other activities incidental to the building, repairing, or expanding of a deepwater port or any of its components, including, but not limited to, pile driving and bulkheading, and alterations, modifications, or additions to the deepwater port. See 33 USC 1502
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Education or any component thereof. See 20 USC 3404
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• function: includes any duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, activity, or program. See 20 USC 3404
• Governor: means the Governor of a State or the person designated by State law to exercise the powers granted to the Governor pursuant to this chapter. See 33 USC 1502
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• licensee: means a citizen of the United States holding a valid license for the ownership, construction, and operation of a deepwater port that was issued, transferred, or renewed pursuant to this chapter. See 33 USC 1502
• marine environment: includes the coastal environment, waters of the contiguous zone, and waters of the high seas. See 33 USC 1502
• natural gas: means either natural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural or artificial gas, including compressed or liquefied natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied petroleum gas, and condensate recovered from natural gas. See 33 USC 1502
• office: includes any office, institute, council, unit, organizational entity, or component thereof. See 20 USC 3404
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• oil: means petroleum, crude oil, and any substance refined from petroleum or crude oil. See 33 USC 1502
• safety zone: means the safety zone established around a deepwater port as determined by the Secretary in accordance with section 1509(d) of this title. See 33 USC 1502
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See 33 USC 1502
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Education. See 20 USC 3404
• State: includes each of the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States. See 33 USC 1502
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• vessel: means every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used as a means of transportation on or through the water. See 33 USC 1502