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PUBLIC LAW 92-532-OCT. 23, 1972

[86 STAT.

Public Law 92-532 October 23, 1972 [H.R. 9727]

Marine Protection, R e s e a r c h, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972.

AN ACT To regulate the transportation for clumping, and the dumping, of material into oc-ean waters, and for other purposes.

Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972". F I N D I N G, P O L I C Y, A N D PURPOSE

SEC. 2. (a) Unregulated dumping of material into ocean waters endangers human health, welfare, and amenities, and the marine environment, ecological systems, and economic potentialities. (b) The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to regulate the dumping of all types of materials into ocean waters and to prevent or strictly limit the dumping into ocean waters of any material which would adversely affect human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities. To this end, it is the purpose of this Act to regulate the transportation of material from the United States for dumping into ocean waters, and the dumping of material, transported from outside the United States, if the dumping occurs in ocean waters over which the United States has jurisdiction or over which it may exercise control, under accepted principles of international law, in order to protect its territory or territorial sea. ,. DEFINITIONS

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SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act the term— (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) "Ocean waters" means those waters of the open seas lying seaward of the base line from which the territorial sea is measured, as provided for in the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (15 U S T 1606; T I A S 5639). (c) "Material" means matter of any kind or description, including, but not limited to, dredged material, solid waste, incinerator residue, garbage, sewage, sewage sludge, munitions, radiological, chemical, and biological warfare agents, radioactive materials, chemicals, biological and laboratory waste, wreck or discarded equipment, rock, sand, excavation debris, and industrial, mimicipal, agricultural, and other waste; but such term does not mean oil within the meaning of section 11 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1161) and does not mean sewage from vessels within the meaning of section 13 of such Act (33 U.S.C. 1163). (d) "United States" includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (e) "Person" means any private person or entity, or any officer, employee, agent, department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, of any State or local unit of government, or of any foreign."government. (f) "Dumping" means a disposition of material: Provided, That it does not mean a disposition of any effluent from any outfall structure to the extent that such disposition is regulated under the provisions of the Federal AVater Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 11511175), under the provisions of section 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act

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