Atlantic Coast Shipping Safety Act

Sponsor: David Rouzer (Republican-NC)December 3, 2025

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Passed Both Chambers

Signed into Law

Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

Requires clearer shipping lanes for safer travel along the Atlantic Coast.

This bill would make shipping safer along the Atlantic Coast. It requires the Coast Guard to create clear, defined shipping lanes with specific minimum widths. This would help ships and boats navigate more safely in that area, with the new rules taking effect in late 2026.

What Would Change

Today, the Coast Guard has proposed rules for shipping lanes along the Atlantic Coast, but there is no law requiring these rules to be finalized or setting specific minimum widths. If this bill passes, the Coast Guard would be required to issue a final regulation within one year, establishing specific minimum widths for these shipping safety fairways, taking effect on December 31, 2026.

Key Provisions

Requires the Coast Guard to create a final rule for shipping safety fairways along the Atlantic Coast.
Sets a minimum width for these fairways, based on a Coast Guard proposal from January 2024.
Gives the Coast Guard one year to issue this new regulation after the bill becomes law.
Excludes certain types of fairways, like connector or cut-across lanes, from the minimum width requirement.
Makes the new regulation effective on December 31, 2026.

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Atlantic Coast Shipping Safety Act

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