EXPANSION OF TERRITORIAL SEA.

SEC. 901. EXPANSION OF TERRITORIAL SEA. (a) Territorial Sea Extending to Twelve Miles Included in Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction.— The Congress declares that all the territorial sea of the United States, as defined by Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988, for purposes of Federal criminal jurisdiction is part of the United States, subject to its sovereignty, and is within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States for the purposes of title 18, United States Code. (b) Assimilated Crimes in Extended Territorial Sea.— Section 13 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by inserting after “title,” the following: “or on, above, or below any portion of the territorial sea of the United States not within the jurisdiction of any State, Commonwealth, territory, possession, or district”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(c) Whenever any waters of the territorial sea of the United States lie outside the territory of any State, Commonwealth, territory, possession, or district, such waters (including the airspace above and the seabed and subsoil below, and artificial islands and fixed structures erected thereon) shall be deemed, for purposes of subsection (a), to lie within the area of the State, Commonwealth, territory, possession, or district that it would lie within if the boundaries of such State, Commonwealth, territory, possession, or district were extended seaward to the outer limit of the territorial sea of the United States.”.