---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 148.708"
title: "33"
number: "148.708"
heading: "Must the applicant's proposal reflect potential regulations?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/148.708"
---

# §148.708. Must the applicant's proposal reflect potential regulations?


Although a regulation is of no effect until it has been officially promulgated, to minimize the subsequent impact that potential regulations may have on a licensee, an applicant can and should reflect reasonably foreseeable environmental regulations in planning, operating, and decommissioning a deepwater port.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1504; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1 (75).

### Source

Source: USCG-1998-3884, 71 FR 57651, Sept. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.