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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES PROVIDING MARITIME SERVICES

(569) Canadian Coast Guard, Department of Transport, is charged with the responsibility for the safe navigation of vessels in Canadian waters. The Coast Guard maintains aids to navigation, operates maritime radio stations, operates weather and survey vessels, conducts marine research and icebreaking operations, lays and repairs submarine cables, and performs many of the same duties as its U.S. counterpart.

(570) The Canadian Coast Guard carries out duties as the marine element of the Canadian Armed Forces search and rescue organization. In Canadian waters of the Great Lakes, search and rescue activities are controlled by a Rescue Coordination Center at Trenton, Ont. The center is alerted by Canadian Coast Guard radio stations or search and rescue units immediately upon receipt of a distress signal.

(571) The Canadian Coast Guard publishes annually the Canadian Lists of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals. Radio Aids to Marine Navigation (issued March 1, June 1, and September 1 of each year), Notice to Mariners, Radio Broadcast Notice to Mariners, and Notices to Shipping are also issued by the Canadian Coast Guard.

(572) Lists of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals and Radio Aids to Marine Navigation are available from Canadian Government Publishing Centre or Canadian Hydrographic Chart Distribution Office. Notices to Mariners are available from Director, Aids and Waterways, Canadian Coast Guard. Notices to Shipping are broadcast from Canadian Coast Guard radio stations; those in effect for an extended time are published in the form of a circular available from the Canadian Coast Guard Traffic Centre. (See appendix for addresses.)

(573) Canadian Hydrographic Service, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, publishes nautical charts and other related marine publications, Canadian Sailing Directions (including Great Lakes, Volumes I and II, and Gulf and River St. Lawrence), Small Craft Guides, and the Catalogs of Nautical Charts and Related Publications. These publications are available from the Canadian Hydrographic Chart Distribution Office and all but the latter are available from the Canadian Government Publishing Centre. (See appendix for addresses.)

(574) The Canadian Hydrographic Service, in conjunction with other components of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Department of the Environment, provides data for several periodic bulletins containing water level information, including the Water Levels-Daily Means, and the Monthly Water Level Bulletin, Great Lakes and Montreal Harbour. These publications are available from Canadian Hydrographic Chart Distribution Office and Canadian Government Publishing Centre. (See appendix for addresses.)

(575) Atmospheric Environment Service, Department of the Environment, issues forecasts and severe weather warnings for Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior, and for Georgian Bay. These forecasts are broadcast in code from Canadian Coast Guard marine radio stations, and in plain language by many Canadian commercial radio stations. Coast Guard broadcast schedules and contents are contained in the publication Radio Aids to Marine Navigation (Atlantic and Great Lakes) available from the Canadian Hydrographic Chart Distribution Office and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre. (See appendix for addresses.) Numerous Canadian vessels including year-round research vessels, lighthouse stations, and automatic reporting stations take weather observations and provide reports during the shipping season. These reports are broadcast over the same radio channels as the weather forecasts.

(576) Canadian Customs.-Foreign pleasure craft may enter Canada temporarily on condition that they are exported at the end of the visit or boating season. Craft remaining in Canada beyond the end of the visit or season are subject to duty and taxes.

(577) The owner or operator of a craft arriving from a foreign port or place is to report immediately to the nearest Canadian Customs unit. Only the owner or operator is permitted to go ashore to make the report; all passengers and goods must remain on board until the formalities have been completed.

(578) At vessel reporting stations where a customs inspector is on duty during the boating season, the vessel is cleared and a permit is issued. At other stations, a telephone reporting system is used. The owner or operator telephones the nearest customs office, or calls 1-800-267-0976, toll free. After routine questioning, the inspector may issue a verbal clearance, or if inspection is necessary, the inspector will proceed to the vessel. These reporting stations display a sign indicating the telephone numbers. The telephone calls are recorded to provide proof of the vessel report. The hours of service vary from location to location as well as seasonally. A service charge is made for service requested outside the normal working hours. Transportation charges for the inspector may be assessed.

(579) A nonresident may be permitted to keep his/her craft in Canada during the off season to have legitimate repairs or maintenance done by a bona fide marina or service depot. The owner must provide a copy of the work order or a written statement from the individual or firm making the repairs.

(580) Additional information on Canadian Customs regulations may be obtained at the nearest Customs office. (See appendix for a list of Canadian Customs regional offices and addresses.)

(581) Canadian Code of Navigating Practices and Procedures.-A code of Navigating Practices and Procedures, issued by the Department of Transport, establishes a set of nonregulatory standards for the conduct of ships in Canadian waters and fishing zones. Copies of the Code are available from the Canadian Hydrographic Chart Distribution Office. (See appendix for address.)

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(27) Note.-These regulations can only be amended by the enforcing agency or other authority cited in the regulations. Accordingly, requests for changes to these regulations should be directed to the appropriate agency for action. In those regulations where the enforcing agency is not cited or is unclear, recommendations for changes should be directed to the following Federal agencies for action: Food and Drug Administration (21 CFR 1250); U.S. Coast Guard (33 CFR 26, 110, 117, 160, 161, 162, 164, and 165; 46 CFR 401); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (33 CFR 207 and 334); Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (33 CFR 401); National Park Service (36 CFR 1, 2, and 7); Environmental Protection Agency (40 CFR 140); Federal Communications Commission (47 CFR 80).

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Title 33-Navigation and Navigable Waters

Part 26-Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Regulations $26.01 Purpose.

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(32) (a) The purpose of this part is to implement the provisions of the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act. This part(33) (1) Requires the use of the vessel bridge-to-bridge radiotelephone; (34) (2) Provides the Coast Guard's interpretation of the meaning of important terms in the Act;

(35) (3) Prescribes the procedures for applying for an exemption from the Act and the regulations issued under the Act and a listing of exemptions.

(36) (b) Nothing in this part relieves any person from the obligation of complying with the rules of the road and the applicable pilot rules.

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"Act" means the "Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act", 33 U.S.C. section 1201-1208;

(41) "Length" is measured from end to end over the deck excluding sheer;

(42) "Power-driven vessel" means any vessel propelled by machinery; and

(43) "Towing vessel" means any commercial vessel engaged in towing another vessel astern, alongside, or by pushing ahead.

(44) "Vessel Traffic Services (VTS)" means a service implemented under Part 161 of this chapter by the United States Coast Guard designed to improve the safety and efficiency of vessel traffic and to protect the environment. The VTS has the capability to interact with marine traffic and respond to traffic situations developing in the VTS area.

(45) "Vessel Traffic Service Area or VTS Area" means the geographical area encompassing a specific VTS area of service as described in Part 161 of this chapter. This area of service may be subdivided into sectors for the purpose of allocating responsibility to individual Vessel Traffic Centers or to identify different operating requirements.

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Note: Although regulatory jurisdiction is limited to the navigable waters of the United States, certain vessels will be encouraged or may be required, as a condition of port entry to report beyond this area to facilitate traffic management within the VTS area.

(47) $26.03 Radiotelephone required.

(48) (a) Unless an exemption is granted under §26.09 and except as provided in paragraph (a)(4) of this section, this part applies to:

(49) (1) Every power-driven vessel of 20 meters or over in length while navigating:

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(2) Every vessel of 100 gross tons upward carrying one or more passengers for hire while navigating;

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(51) (3) Every towing vessel of 26 feet or over in length while navigating; and

(52) (4) Every dredge and floating plant engaged in or near a channel or fairway in operations likely to restrict or affect navigation of other vessels except for an unmanned or intermittently manned floating plant under the control of a dredge.

(53) (b) Every vessel, dredge, or floating plant described in paragraph (a) of this section must have a radiotelephone on board capable of operation from its navigational bridge, or in the case of a dredge, from its main control station, and capable of transmitting and receiving on the frequency or frequencies within the 156-162 Mega-Hertz band using the classes of emissions designated by the Federal Communications Commission for the exchange of navigational information.

(54) (c) The radiotelephone required by paragraph (b) of this section must be carried on board the described vessels, dredges, and floating plants upon the navigable waters of the United States. (55) (d) The radiotelephone required by paragraph (b) of this section must be capable of transmitting and receiving on VHF FM channel 22A (157.1 MHz).

(56) (e) While transiting any of the following waters, each vessel described in paragraph (a) of this section also must have on board a radiotelephone capable of transmitting and receiving on VHF FM channel 67 (156.375 MHz):

(57) (1) The lower Mississippi River from the territorial sea boundary, and within either the Southwest Pass safety fairway or the South Pass safety fairway specified in 33 CFR 166.200, to mile 242.4 AHP (Above Head of Passes) near Baton Rouge;

(58) (2) The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet from the territorial sea boundary, and within the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Safety Fairway specified in 33 CFR 166.200, to that channel's junction with the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal; and

(59) (3) The full length of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal from its junction with the Mississippi River to that canal's entry to Lake Pontchartrain at the New Seabrook vehicular bridge.

(60) (f) In addition to the radiotelephone required by paragraph (b) of this section, each vessel described in paragraph (a) of this section while transiting any waters within a Vessel Traffic Service Area, must have on board a radiotelephone capable of transmitting and receiving on the VTS designated frequency in Table 26.03(f) (VTS Call Signs, Designated Frequencies, and Monitoring Areas).

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itored in accordance with §26.05(a) except that in the area prescribed in §26.03(e), channel 67 (156.375 MHz) is the designated frequency.

(67) (e) On those navigable waters of the United States within a VTS area, the designated VTS frequency is an additional designated frequency required to be monitored in accordance with $26.05.

(68) Note: As stated in 47 CFR 80.148(b), a VHF watch on Channel 16 (156.800 MHz) is not required on vessels subject to the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act and participating in a Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) system when the watch is maintained on both the vessel bridge-to-bridge frequency and a designated VTS frequency.

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Section 6 of the Act states

(a) Whenever radiotelephone capability is required by this Act, a vessel's radiotelephone equipment shall be maintained in effective operating condition. If the radiotelephone equipment carried aboard a vessel ceases to operate, the master shall exercise due diligence to restore it or cause it to be restored to effective operating condition at the earliest practicable time. The failure of a vessel's radiotelephone equipment shall not, in itself, constitute a violation of this Act, nor shall it obligate the master of any vessel to moor or anchor his vessel; however, the loss of radiotelephone capability shall be given consideration in the navigation of the vessel.

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(76) Note: A single VHF-FM radio capable of scanning or sequential monitoring (often referred to as "dual watch" capability) will not meet the requirements for two radios. (62)

$26.04 Use of the designated frequency.

(63) (a) No person may use the frequency designated by the Federal Communications Commission under section 8 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1207(a), to transmit any information other than information necessary for the safe navigation of vessels or necessary

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(77) (a) Any person may petition for an exemption from any provision of the Act or this part;

(78) (b) Each petition must be submitted in writing to U.S. Coast Guard Office of Navigation Safety and Waterway Services, 2100 Second Street SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001, and must state

(79) (1) The provisions of the Act or this part from which an exemption is requested; and

(80) (2) The reasons why marine navigation will not be adversely affected if the exemption is granted and if the exemption relates to a local communication system how that system would fully comply with the intent of the concept of the Act but would not conform in detail if the exemption is granted. $26.09 List of exemptions.

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(a) All vessels navigating on those waters governed by the navigation rules for Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters (33 U.S.C. 241 et seq.) are exempt from the requirements of the Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act and this part until May 6, 1975.

Table 26.03(f).-VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES (VTS) CALL SIGNS, DESIGNATED FREQUENCIES, AND MONITORING AREAS

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New York Traffic3.....

Houston Traffic....

Berwick Traffic......

Soo Control... . . . . . .

San Francisco Traffic ..

New York

Monitoring area

156.700 MHz (Ch. 14)..... The waters of the Lower New York Bay west of a line drawn from Norton Point to Breezy Point and north of a line drawn from Ambrose Entrance Lighted Gong Buoy #1 to Ambrose Channel Lighted Gong Buoy #9 thence to West Bank Light and thence to Great Kills Light. The waters of the Upper New York Bay, south of 40°42.40′N. (Brooklyn Bridge) and 40°43.70′N. (Holland Tunnel Ventilator Shaft); and in Newark Bay, north of 40°38.25′N. (Arthur Kill Railroad Bridge), and south of 40°41.95′N. (Lehigh Valley Draw Bridge); and the Kill Van Kull.

156.550 MHz (Ch. 11)..... The waters of Raritan Bay east of a line drawn from Great Kills Light to Point Comfort in New Jersey and south of a line drawn from Great Kills Light to West Bank Light, thence to Ambrose Channel Lighted Gong Buoy #9, and thence to Ambrose Channel Lighted Gong Buoy #1, and west of a line drawn from Ambrose Channel Lighted Gong Buoy #1 to the Sandy Hook Channel Entrance Buoys (Sandy Hook Lighted Gong Buoy #1 and Sandy Hook Lighted Bell Buoy #2).

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The navigable waters north of 29°N., west of 94°20′W., south of 29°49′N., and east of 95°20'W.:

156.550 MHz (Ch. 11)..... The navigable waters north of a line extending due west from the southern most end of Exxon Dock #1 (29°43.37′N., 95°01.27′W.)

156.600 MHz (Ch 12)

The navigable waters south of a line extending due west from the southern most end of Exxon Dock #1 (29°43.37′N., 95°01.27′W.).

Berwick Bay

156.550 MHz (Ch. 11)..... The navigable waters south of 29°45′N., west of 91°10′W., north of 29°37′N., and east of 91°18'W.

St. Marys River

156.600 MHz (Ch. 12)..... The navigable waters of the St. Marys River between 45°57′N. (De Tour Reef Light) and 46°38.7′N. (Ile Parisienne Light), except the St. Marys Falls Canal and those navigable waters east of a line from 46°04.16′N. and 46°01.57′N. (La Pointe to Sims Point in Potagannissing Bay and Worsley Bay).

156.600 MHz (Ch. 12). . . . .
156.700 MHz (Ch. 14). . . . .

San Francisco3

The waters within a 38 nautical mile radius of Mount Tamalpais (37°55.8′N.,
122°34.6′W.) excluding the San Francisco Offshore Precautionary Area.
The waters of the San Francisco Offshore Precautionary Area eastward to San
Francisco Bay including its tributaries extending to the ports of Stockton,
Sacramento and Redwood City.

Vessel traffic services1
Call Sign

Seattle Traffic3

Tofino Traffico.

Vancouver Traffic .....

Valdez Traffic ...

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156.700 MHz (Ch. 14)..... The navigable waters of Puget Sound, Hood Canal and adjacent waters south of a line connecting Marrowstone Point and Lagoon Point in Admiralty Inlet and south of a line drawn due east from the southernmost tip of Possession Point on Whidbey Island to the shoreline.

156.250 MHz (Ch. 5A) ..

The navigable waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca east of 124°40′W. excluding the waters in the central portion of the Strait of Juan de Fuca north and east of Race Rocks; the navigable waters of the Strait of Georgia east of 122°52′W.; the San Juan Island Archipelago, Rosario Strait, Bellingham Bay; Admiralty Inlet north of a line connecting Marrowstone Point and Lagoon Point and all waters east of Whidbey Island north of a line drawn due east from the southernmost tip of Possession Point on Whidbey Island to the shoreline. 156.725 MHz (Ch. 74) . . . . . The waters west of 124°40′W. within 50 nautical miles of the coast of Vancouver Island including the waters north of 48°N., and east of 127°W. 156.550 MHz (Ch. 11)..... The navigable waters of the Strait of Georgia west of 122°52′W., the navigable waters of the central Strait of Juan de Fuca north and east of Race Rocks, including the Gulf Island Archipelago, Boundary Pass and Haro Strait. Prince William Sound"

156.650 MHz (Ch. 13)..... The navigable waters south of 61°05′N., east of 147°20′W., north of 60°N., and west of 146°30'W.; and, all navigable waters in Port Valdez.

Louisville7

Louisville Traffic. . . . . .

NOTES:

156.650 MHz (Ch. 13)..... The navigable waters of the Ohio River between McAlpine Locks (Mile 606) and Twelve Mile Island (Mile 593), only when the McAlpine upper pool gauge is at approximately 13.0 feet or above.

VTS regulations are denoted in 33 CFR Part 161. All geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) are expressed in North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83).

2 In the event of a communication failure either by the vessel traffic center or the vessel or radio congestion on a designated VTS frequency, communications may be established on an alternate VTS frequency. The bridge-to-bridge navigational frequency, 156.650 MHz (Channel 13), is monitored in each VTS area; and it may be used as an alternate frequency, however, only to the extent that doing so provides a level of safety beyond that provided by other means.

Designated frequency monitoring is required within U.S. navigable waters. In areas which are outside the U.S. navigable waters, designated frequency monitoring is voluntary. However, prospective VTS Users are encouraged to monitor the designatedfrequency. A Cooperative Vessel Traffic Service was established by the United States and Canada within adjoining waters. The appropriate vessel traffic center administers the rules issued by both nations; however, it will enforce only its own set of rules within its jurisdiction.

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Seattle Traffic may direct a vessel to monitor the other primary VTS frequency 156.250 MHz or 156.700 MHz (Channel 5A or 14) depending on traffic density, weather conditions, or other safety factors, rather than strictly adhering to the designated frequency required for each monitoring area as defined above. This does not require a vessel to monitor both primary frequencies.

A portion of Tofino Sector's monitoring area extends beyond the defined CVTS area. Designated frequency monitoring is voluntary in these portions outside of VTS jurisdiction, however, prospective VTS Users are encouraged to monitor the designated frequency.

The bridge-to-bridge navigational frequency, 156.650 MHz (Channel 13), is used in these VTSs because the level of radiotelephone transmissions does not warrant a designated VTS frequency. The listening watch required by §26.05 of this chapter is not limited to the monitoring area.

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