# Restoration of Names That Honor American Greatness; Gulf of America
> **US Department of the Interior** · Final rule. · Published 2025-09-15 · Effective 2025-09-15 · 90 FR 44322
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-17775
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of the Interior
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 44322
- **CFR reference:** 30 CFR 203
- **Publication date:** 2025-09-15
- **Effective date:** 2025-09-15
- **Interior docket:** Docket ID: BSEE-2025-0005
## Abstract

This final rule will, throughout the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's regulations, rename the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) as the Gulf of America (GOA). The Gulf of America is the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/15/2025-17775/restoration-of-names-that-honor-american-greatness-gulf-of-america)
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