33 U.S.C. § 2603 — Waste handling practices
submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 100-688 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 290 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires reasonable measures to prevent municipal or commercial waste from entering coastal waters during loading, transport, and unloading. It also requires cleanup measures and regulations.
(a) In general. (1) Loading. The owner or operator of the waste source must take all reasonable steps to load municipal or commercial waste onto a vessel in a way that minimizes waste deposited in coastal waters. (2) Securing. The vessel’s owner or operator must secure all loaded waste with netting or other means so it is not deposited during transport. (3) Offloading. The receiving facility’s owner or operator must take all reasonable steps to unload the waste in a way that minimizes deposits in coastal waters. (4) Cleanup. The owner or operator of a waste source or receiving facility must provide adequate controls to clean up waste deposited in coastal waters.
(b) Regulations. The Administrator, consulting the Secretary of Transportation, must issue regulations (1) requiring waste sources, receiving facilities, and vessels to provide means and facilities to prevent deposits during loading, unloading, and transport; (2) when appropriate, requiring each responsible party to submit and adopt an operations and maintenance manual identifying procedures to prevent, report, and clean up deposits, including recordkeeping; and (3) if the Administrator finds tracking systems necessary to enforce laws against deposits, requiring the appropriate systems within 18 months after that finding.
The owner or operator of the waste source shall take all reasonable steps to assure that all municipal or commercial waste is loaded onto a vessel in a manner that assures that waste deposited in coastal waters is minimized.
The owner or operator of a vessel shall assure that all municipal or commercial waste loaded onto the vessel is secured by netting or other means to assure that waste will not be deposited into coastal waters during transport.
The owner or operator of the receiving facility shall take all reasonable steps to assure that any municipal or commercial waste is offloaded from a vessel in a manner that assures that waste deposited into coastal waters is minimized.
The owner or operator of any waste source or receiving facility shall provide adequate control measures to clean up any municipal or commercial waste which is deposited into coastal waters.
The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall prescribe regulations—
requiring that waste sources, receiving facilities, and vessels provide the means and facilities to assure that the waste will not be deposited into coastal waters during loading, offloading, and transport;
requiring, as appropriate, the submission and adoption by each responsible party of an operation and maintenance manual identifying procedures to be used to prevent, report, and clean up any deposit of municipal or commercial waste into coastal waters, including record keeping requirements; and
if the Administrator determines that tracking systems are required to assure adequate enforcement of laws preventing the deposit of municipal or commercial waste into coastal waters, requiring installation of the appropriate systems within 18 months after the Administrator makes that determination.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 100–688, title IV, § 4103, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4156.)
- 1988Enacted · Pub. L. 100-688 · 102 Stat. 4156
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