Deducts from the gross tonnage of every vessel of the United States that space occupied by machinery used exclusively to seperate clarity, purity, or process, a ship's own slop oil mixture, tank-cleaning residue, bulge residue, or other waste materials, including sewage, garbage, galley wastes or trash and space occupied by tanks or collection area used for the collection or carriage of such waste materials, but not to exceed a maximum space deduction established by regulation. Provides that the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall issue regulations to define the slop oil mixtures, cleaning residue, and waste materials, establish the miximum deductions which may be made, and define the manner in which the spaces shall be used and marked.
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Commerce with amendment, S. Rept. 93-730.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Commerce with amendment, S. Rept. 93-730.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
Measure passed Senate, amended.
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment, H. Rept. 93-1392.
Reported to House from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with amendment, H. Rept. 93-1392.
Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended.
Measure passed House, amended.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendment.
Enacted as Public Law 93-524
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Senate agreed to House amendment.
Measure presented to President.
Measure presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Public law 93-524.
Public law 93-524.