(a) The District Office is in Portsmouth, Va.
(b) The Fifth Coast Guard District is comprised of: North Carolina; Virginia; District of Columbia; Maryland; Delaware; that part of Pennsylvania east of a line drawn along 78[deg]55[min] W. longitude south to 41[deg]00[min] N. latitude, thence west to 79[deg]00[min] W. longitude, and thence south to the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary; that portion of New Jersey that lies south and west of a line drawn from the New Jersey shoreline at 40[deg]18[min] N. latitude (just south of the Shrewsbury River), thence westward to 40[deg]18[min] N. latitude, 74[deg]30.5[min] W. longitude, thence north-northwesterly to the junction of the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania boundaries at Tristate; and the ocean area encompassed by a line bearing 122[deg]T from the coastal end of the First and Fifth Districts' land boundary at the intersection of the New Jersey shoreline and 40[deg]18[min] N. latitude (just south of the Shrewsbury River) to the southernmost point in the First Coast Guard District (a point located at approximately 37[deg] N. latitude, 67[deg]13[min] W. longitude); thence along a line bearing 219[deg]T to the point of intersection with the ocean boundary between the Fifth and Seventh Coast Guard Districts, which is defined as a line bearing 122[deg]T from the coastal end of the Fifth and Seventh Districts' land boundary at the shoreline at the North Carolina-South Carolina border, point located at approximately 30[deg]55[min] N. 73[deg] W.; thence northwesterly along this line to the coast. [CGFR 61-40, 26 FR 10347, Nov. 3, 1961, as amended by CGD 87-008, 52 FR 13084, Apr. 21, 1987; 52 FR 16480, May 5, 1987; CGD 87-008b, 52 FR 25217, July 6, 1987; CGD 96-016, 61 FR 21959, May 13, 1996]