---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 56.60-3"
title: "46"
number: "56.60-3"
heading: "Ferrous materials."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/56.60-3"
---

# §56.60-3. Ferrous materials.

- (a) Ferrous pipe used for saltwater service must be protected against corrosion by hotdip galvanizing or by the use of extra heavy schedule material.
- (b) (Reproduces 124.2.C.) Carbon or alloy steel having carbon content of more than 0.35 percent must not be used in welded construction, nor be shaped by oxygen-cutting process or other thermal-cutting process.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 73-254, 40 FR 40165, Sept. 2, 1975, as amended by USCG-2003-16630, 73 FR 65183, Oct. 31, 2008; USCG-2020-0634, 89 FR 50153, June 12, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j), 1509; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18843, Dec. 18, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 73-254, 40 FR 40165, Sept. 2, 1975, as amended by USCG-2003-16630, 73 FR 65183, Oct. 31, 2008; USCG-2020-0634, 89 FR 50153, June 12, 2024]