# Regulations Implementing the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: Recreational Vessels
> **Office of Workers' Compensation Programs** · Final rule. · Published 2011-12-30 · Effective 2012-01-30 · 76 FR 82117
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-32880
- **Category:** workers-comp
- **Sub-agency:** Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 82117
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 701
- **Publication date:** 2011-12-30
- **Effective date:** 2012-01-30
## Abstract

This final rule contains regulations implementing amendments to the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), relating to the exclusion of certain recreational-vessel workers from the LHWCA's definition of "employee." These regulations clarify both the definition of "recreational vessel" and those circumstances under which workers are excluded from LHWCA coverage when working on those vessels. The final rule also withdraws a proposed rule that would have codified current case law and the Department's longstanding view that employees are covered under the LHWCA so long as some of their work constitutes "maritime employment" within the meaning of the statute.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/12/30/2011-32880/regulations-implementing-the-longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act-recreational-vessels)
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