42 U.S.C. § 9161 — Law of the Sea Treaty
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-320 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 90 words · no verdicts yet
If the United States ratifies a Law of the Sea treaty covering jurisdiction over ocean thermal energy conversion, the Administrator must revise this chapter’s regulations as needed to match it.
If the United States ratifies a treaty resulting from a United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea that addresses jurisdiction over ocean thermal energy conversion, the Administrator*, after consulting the Secretary* of State*, must issue any needed and appropriate amendment to regulations under this chapter. The amendment must conform to the treaty in anticipation of the treaty’s effective or otherwise applicable date for the United States.
If the United States ratifies a treaty, which includes provisions with respect to jurisdiction over ocean thermal energy conversion activities, resulting from any United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Administrator*, after consultation with the Secretary* of State*, shall promulgate any amendment to the regulations promulgated under this chapter which is necessary and appropriate to conform such regulations to the provisions of such treaty, in anticipation of the date when such treaty shall come into force and effect for, or otherwise be applicable to, the United States.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–320, title IV, § 401, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 998.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-320 · 94 Stat. 998
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