WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has issued a rule called: Restoration of Names That Honor American Greatness; Gulf of America.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Sept. 15 by Adam G. Suess, Acting Assistant Secretary, Land Minerals Management.
Summary: This final rule will, throughout the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's regulations, rename the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) as the Gulf of America (GOA). The Gulf of America is the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba.
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