Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 19, 2025

Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters last revised: Dec 12, 2025
§ 156.300 - Designated lightering zones.

The following lightering zones are designated in the Gulf of America and are more than 60 miles from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured:

(a) Southtex-lightering zone. This lightering zone and the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.Longitude W.
27°40′00″,93°00′00″, thence to
27°40′00″,94°35′00″, thence to
28°06′30″,94°35′00″, thence to
27°21′00″,96°00′00″, thence to
26°30′00″,96°00′00″, thence to
26°30′00″,93°00′00″, and thence to the point of beginning.
(NAD 83)

(b) Gulfmex No. 2-lightering zone. This lightering zone and the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.Longitude W.
27°53′00″,89°00′00″, thence to
27°53′00″,91°30′00″, thence to
26°30′00″,91°30′00″, thence to
26°30′00″,89°00′00″, and thence to the point of beginning.
(NAD 83)

(c) Offshore Pascagoula No. 2-lightering zone. This lightering zone and the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.Longitude W.
29°20′00″,87°00′00″, thence to
29°12′00″,87°45′00″, thence to
28°39′00″,88°00′00″, thence to
28°00′00″,88°00′00″, thence to
28°00′00″,87°00′00″, and thence to the point of beginning.
(NAD 83)

(d) South Sabine Point-lightering zone. This lightering zone and the geographic area for this zone are coterminous and consist of the waters bounded by a line connecting the following points beginning at:

Latitude N.Longitude W.
28°30′00″,92°38′00″, thence to
28°44′00″,93°24′00″, thence to
28°33′00″,94°00′00″, thence to
28°18′00″,94°00′00″, thence to
28°18′00″,92°38′00″, and thence to the point of beginning.
(NAD 83)
authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 3703,3703a,3715,70011,70034; E.O. 11735, 3 CFR 1971-1975 Comp., p. 793; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.2
cite as: 33 CFR 156.300