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Jurisdiction of 

 U.S. district 

 courts. 



Worker's 

 compensation. 



44 Stat. 1424. 

 33 use 901. 



61 Stat. 136. 

 29 use 167. 



Coast Guard 



regulations, 



etc. 



Penalty. 



Artificial 

 islands, etc. 



'the appropriate oflScers and courts of the United States. Statfe 

 taxation laws shall not apply to the outer Continental Shelf. 



(3) The provisions of this section for adoption of State law as 

 the law of the United States shall never be interpreted as a basis 

 for claiming any interest in or jurisdiction on behalf of any State 

 for any purpose over the seabed and subsoil of the outer Con- 

 tinental Shelf, or the property and natural resources thereof or the 

 revenues therefrom. 



(b) The United States district courts shall have original juris- 

 diction of cases and controversies arising out of or in connection 

 with any operations conducted on the outer Continental Shelf for 

 the purpose of exploring for, developing, removing or transporting 

 by pipeline the natural resources, or involving rights to the nat- 

 ural resources of the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental 

 Shelf, and proceedings with respect to any such case or contro- 

 versy may be instittited in the judicial district in which any de- 

 fendant resides or may be found, or in the judicial district of the 

 adjacent State nearest the place where the cause of action arose. 



(c) With respect to disahility or death of an employee resulting 

 from any injury occurring as the result of operations described in 

 subsection (b), compensation shall be payable under the provi- 

 sions of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation 

 Act. For the purposes of the extension of the provisions of the 

 Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act under 

 this section — 



(1) the term "employee" does not include a master or mem- 

 ber of a crew of any vessel, or an officer or employee of the 

 United States or any agency thereof or of any State or foreign 

 government, or of any political subdivision thereof ; 



(2) the term "employer" means an employer any of whose 

 employees lare employed in such operations ; and 



(3) the term "United States" when used in a geographical 

 sense includes the outer Continental Shelf and artificial is- 

 lands and fixed structures thereon. 



(d) For the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act, as 

 amended, any unfair labor practice, as defined in such Act, occur- 

 ring upon any artificial island or fixed structure referred to in 

 subsection (a) shall be deemed to have occurred within the judi- 

 cial district of the adjacent State nearest the place of location of 

 such island or structure. 



(e) (1) The head of the Department in which the Coast Guard 

 is operating shall have authority to promulgate and enforce such 

 reasonable regulations with respect to lights and other warning 

 devices, safety equipment, and other matters relating to the pro- 

 motion of safety of life and property on the islands and structures 

 referred to in subsection (a) or on the waters adjacent thereto, as 

 he may deem necessary. 



(2) The head of the Department in which the Coast Guard is 

 operating may mark for the protection of navigation any such is- 

 land or structure whenever the owner has failed suitably to mark 

 the same in accordance with regulations issued hereunder, and the 

 owner shall pay the cost thereof. Any person, firm, company, or 

 corporation who shall fail or refuse to obey any of the lawful rules 

 and regulations issued hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and shall be fined not more than $100 for each offense. Each day 

 during which such violation shall continue shall be considered a 

 new offense. 



(f ) The authority of the Secretary of the Army to prevent ob- 

 struction to navigation in the navigable waters of the United 

 States is hereby extended to artificial islands and fixed structures 

 located on the outer Continental Shelf. 



(g) The specific application by this section of certain provisions 

 of law to the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf and 

 the artificial islands and fixed structures referred to in subsection 

 (a) or to acts or offenses occurring or committed thereon shall 

 not give rise to any inference that the application to such islands 



