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Title 33 → Chapter I → Subchapter J → Part 117

TITLE 33—Navigation and Navigable Waters

CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

SUBCHAPTER J—BRIDGES

PART 117—DRAWBRIDGE OPERATION REGULATIONS

Subpart A—GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Purpose.

Definitions.

When the drawbridge must open.

General requirements of drawbridge owners.

Permanent changes to drawbridge operation.

Delaying opening of a draw.

Unnecessary opening of the draw.

Signals.

Signalling for contiguous drawbridges.

Signalling when two or more vessels are approaching a drawbridge.

Signalling for an opened drawbridge.

Installation of radiotelephones.

Radiotelephone installation identification.

Drawbridge operations for emergency vehicles and emergency vessels.

Closure of draw for natural disasters or civil disorders.

Temporary change to a drawbridge operating schedule.

Closure of drawbridge for emergency repair.

Authorized closure of drawbridge due to infrequent requests for openings.

Advance notice for drawbridge opening.

Maintaining drawbridges in the fully open position.

Remotely operated and automated drawbridges.

Clearance gauges.

Process of violations.

Subpart B—SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

General.

Posting of requirements.

Special requirements due to hazards.

Alabama River.

Bayou La Batre.

Bayou Sara.

Black Warrior River.

Chattahoochee River.

Coosa River.

Tensaw River.

Three Mile Creek.

Tombigbee River.

Arkansas River.

Arkansas Waterway.

Black River.

Little Red River.

Little River.

Ouachita River.

Red River.

St. Francis River.

White River.

General.

American River.

Bishop Cut.

Cerritos Channel.

China Basin, Mission Creek.

Connection Slough.

Cordelia Slough (a tributary of Suisun Bay).

Corte Madera Creek.

Eureka Slough.

Georgiana Slough.

Grant Line Canal.

Honker Cut.

Islais Creek (Channel).

Lindsey Slough.

Little Potato Slough.

Mare Island Strait and the Napa River.

Middle River.

Miner Slough.

Mokelumne River.

Mud Slough.

Newark Slough.

Oakland Inner Harbor Tidal Canal.

Old River.

Pacheco Creek.

Petaluma River.

Sacramento River.

San Joaquin River.

San Leandro Bay.

Snodgrass Slough.

Sonoma Creek.

Steamboat Slough.

Sutter Slough.

Cold Spring Brook.

Connecticut River.

Housatonic River.

Mianus River.

Mystic River.

New Haven Harbor, Quinnipiac and Mill Rivers.

Niantic River.

Norwalk River.

Pequonnock River.

Saugatuck River.

Shaw Cove.

Thames River.

Yellow Mill Channel.

Brandywine Creek.

Broad Creek.

Cedar Creek.

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Christina River.

Lewes and Rehoboth Canal.

Mispillion River.

Nanticoke River.

Smyrna River.

District of Columbia

Anacostia River.

Potomac River.

Apalachicola River.

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from St. Marys River to Key Largo.

Banana River.

Big Carlos Pass.

Billy's Creek.

Biscayne Bay.

Blackwater River.

Canaveral Barge Canal.

Coffeepot Bayou.

Dunns Creek.

Grand Canal.

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Hillsboro Inlet.

Hillsborough River.

Indian Creek.

Little Manatee River.

Loxahatchee River.

Manatee River.

Massalina Bayou.

Matlacha Pass.

Miami Beach Channel.

Miami River.

Miami River, North Fork.

New Pass.

New River.

New River, South Fork.

Okeechobee Waterway.

Oklawaha River.

Outer Clam Bay.

Rice Creek.

St. Johns River.

St. Marys River.

Snake Creek.

Suwannee River.

Taylor Creek.

Trout River.

Whitcomb Bayou.

Altamaha River.

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Savannah River to St. Marys River.

Chattahoochee River.

Flint River.

Ocmulgee River.

Oconee River.

Ogeechee River.

Satilla River.

Savannah River.

St. Marys River.

Clearwater River.

Pend Oreille River.

Snake River.

Calumet River.

Chicago River.

Illinois Waterway.

Wabash River.

Trail Creek.

Wabash River.

Missouri River.

Missouri River.

Green River.

Ohio River.

Amite River.

Atchafalaya River.

Belle River.

Black Bayou.

Boeuf Bayou.

Bonfouca Bayou.

Caddo Lake.

Carlin Bayou.

Chef Menteur Pass.

Colyell Bayou.

Company Canal.

Des Allemands Bayou.

D'Inde Bayou.

Du Large Bayou.

Falgout Canal.

Franklin Canal.

Grand Cabahanosse Bayou.

Grosse Tete Bayou.

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Houma Canal.

Houma Navigation Canal.

Houston River.

Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans.

Kelso Bayou.

La Carpe Bayou.

Lacassine Bayou.

Lacombe Bayou.

Lafourche Bayou.

Lake Pontchartrain.

Liberty Bayou.

Little Black Bayou.

Little River.

Little (Petit) Caillou Bayou.

Lower Atchafalaya River.

Lower Grand River.

Macon Bayou.

Mermentau River.

Milhomme Bayou.

Nezpique Bayou.

Pass Manchac.

Patout Bayou.

Pearl River.

Pierre Pass.

Plaquemine Bayou.

Plaquemine Brule Bayou.

Red River.

Sabine River.

Schooner Bayou Canal.

Superior Oil Canal.

Stumpy Bayou.

Tante Phine Pass.

Tchefuncta River.

Teche Bayou.

Tensas River.

Terrebonne Bayou.

Tigre Bayou.

Vermilion River.

West Pearl River.

Back River.

Kennebec River.

Piscataqua River.

Sheepscot River.

Townsend Gut.

Bear Creek.

Bush River.

Cambridge Harbor.

Chester River.

Choptank River.

College Creek.

Curtis Creek.

Isle of Wight (Sinepuxent) Bay.

Kent Island Narrows.

Marshyhope Creek.

Miles River.

Patapsco River—Middle Branch.

Patuxent River.

Pocomoke River.

Sassafras River.

Spa Creek.

Stoney Creek.

Susquehanna River.

Weems Creek.

Wicomico River (North Prong).

Acushnet River.

Annisquam River and Blynman Canal.

Apponagansett River.

Bass River.

Cape Cod Canal.

Charles River and its tributaries.

Chelsea River.

Danvers River.

Dorchester Bay.

Eel Pond Channel.

Lagoon Pond.

Manchester Harbor.

Merrimack River.

Mitchell River.

Mystic River.

Neponset River.

Plum Island River.

Saugus River.

Taunton River.

Westport River—East Branch.

West Bay.

Weymouth Fore River.

Black River (South Haven).

Black River (Port Huron).

Cheboygan River.

Detroit River (Trenton Channel).

Grand River.

Keweenaw Waterway.

Manistee River.

Pine River (Charlevoix).

Pine River (St. Clair).

River Rouge.

Saginaw River.

St. Joseph River.

St. Mary's Falls Canal.

Thunder Bay River.

Duluth Ship Canal (Duluth-Superior Harbor).

Minnesota River.

Rainy River, Rainy Lake and their tributaries.

Red River of the North.

St. Croix River.

St. Louis River (Duluth-Superior Harbor).

Upper Mississippi River.

Back Bay of Biloxi.

Big Sunflower River.

Old Fort Bayou.

Pearl River.

Bayou Portage.

Tchoutacabouffa River.

Yazoo River.

Missouri River.

Osage River.

Missouri River.

Hampton River.

Little Harbor.

Piscataqua River.

Alloway Creek.

Arthur Kill.

Bass River.

Beaver Dam Creek.

Cheesequake Creek.

Cohansey River.

Cooper River.

Corson Inlet.

Delaware River.

Elizabeth River.

Glimmer Glass (Debbie's Creek).

Great Channel.

Grassy Sound Channel.

Great Egg Harbor Bay.

Hackensack River.

Manantico Creek.

Mantua Creek.

Maurice River.

Mullica River.

Nacote Creek.

New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway.

Navesink River (Swimming River).

Newark Bay.

Oceanport Creek.

Oldmans Creek.

Passaic River.

Raccoon Creek.

Rahway River.

Rancocas Creek.

Raritan River.

Salem River.

Schellenger Creek.

Shark River (South Channel).

Shrewsbury River.

South River.

Townsend Inlet.

Tuckahoe River.

Wading River.

Black Rock Canal.

Bronx River.

Buffalo River.

East River.

Genesee River.

Gowanus Canal.

Harlem River.

Hudson River.

Hutchinson River (Eastchester Creek).

Jamaica Bay and Connecting Waterways.

Lake Champlain.

Long Island, New York Inland Waterway from East Rockaway Inlet to Shinnecock Canal.

Mill Neck Creek.

Newtown Creek, Dutch Kills, English Kills and their tributaries.

New Rochelle Harbor.

Niagara River.

Tonawanda Creek.

Tonawanda Harbor.

Wappinger Creek.

Westchester Creek.

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Alternate Route), Great Dismal Swamp Canal.

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Albermarle Sound to Sunset Beach.

Cape Fear River.

Gallants Channel.

Neuse River.

Newport River.

Northeast Cape Fear River.

Pamlico and Tar Rivers.

Pasquotank River.

Perquimans River.

Roanoke River.

Smith Creek.

Trent River.

Ashtabula River.

Muskingum River (Zanesville Canal).

Black River.

Portage River.

Sandusky Bay.

Maumee River.

Blind Slough.

Clatskanie River.

Columbia River.

Coos Bay.

Coos River.

Coquille River.

Isthmus Slough.

John Day River.

Oregon Slough (North Portland Harbor).

Siuslaw River.

South Slough.

Umpqua River.

Wallooskee River.

Willamette River.

Youngs Bay and Lewis and Clark River.

Chester Creek.

Darby Creek.

Delaware River.

Schuylkill River.

Rhode Island [Reserved]

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Little River to Savannah River.

Ashepoo River.

Ashley River.

Battery Creek.

Broad River.

Congaree River.

Cooper River.

Coosaw River (Whale Branch).

Durham Creek.

Pee Dee River.

Rantowles Creek.

Savannah River.

Waccamaw River.

Wando River.

Missouri River.

Cumberland River.

Hatchie River.

Obion River.

Tennessee River.

Arroyo Colorado River.

Brazos River (Diversion Channel).

Buffalo Bayou.

Cedar Bayou.

Chocolate Bayou.

Colorado River.

Cow Bayou.

Galveston Channel.

Greens Bayou.

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

Lavaca River.

Neches River.

Old Brazos River.

Sabine Lake.

Sabine River.

San Bernard River.

Taylor Bayou.

Taylor Bayou Outfall Canal (Joint Outfall Canal (JOC)).

Trinity River.

Victoria Barge Canal.

Lake Champlain.

Appomattox River.

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, South Branch of the Elizabeth River to the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal.

Blackwater River.

Cat Point Creek.

Chickahominy River.

Chincoteague Channel.

Elizabeth River—Eastern Branch.

Great Wicomico River.

Kinsale Creek.

Mattaponi River.

North Landing River.

Pamunkey River.

York River.

Chambers Bay.

Chehalis River.

Columbia River.

Cowlitz River.

Duwamish Waterway.

Hood Canal.

Hoquiam River.

Lake Washington Ship Canal.

Lewis River.

Skagit River.

Skamokawa Creek.

Snake River.

Snohomish River, Steamboat Slough, and Ebey Slough.

Tacoma Harbor.

Willapa River South Fork.

Wishkah River.

Black River.

Duluth-Superior Harbor (St. Louis River).

East River.

Fox River.

Manitowoc River.

Menomonee River.

Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers and South Menomonee and Burnham Canals.

Root River.

Sheboygan River.

St. Croix River.

Sturgeon Bay.

Upper Mississippi River.

Wisconsin River.

Wolf River.

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