§ 1473. Consultations and determinations respecting creation of hazards to human health, etc.; criteria for determinations respecting grave and imminent dangers of major harmful consequences to United States coastline or related interests

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1974

   Intervention on the High Seas Act

   Pub. L. 93–248 § 4 · [88 Stat. 8]

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1473

   Pub. L. 93–248, § 4, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 93–248, § 4, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. In determining whether there is grave and imminent danger 33 USC 1473. of major harmful consequences to the coastline or related interests of the United States, the Secretary shall consider the interests of the United States directly threatened or affected including but not limited to, fish, shellfish, and other living marine resources, wildlife, coastal zone and estuarine activities, and public and private shorelines and beaches.

2. 1978

   Pub. L. 95–302 § 1(3) · 92 Stat. 344

   1. Added · 33 U.S.C. § 1473

      Pub. L. 95–302 added subsec. (a)

   2. Amended · 33 U.S.C. § 1473

      Pub. L. 95–302 designated existing provisions as subsec. (b)

   3. Inserted · 33 U.S.C. § 1473

      Pub. L. 95–302 inserted “human health,” before “fish”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 95–302 added subsec. (a), designated existing provisions as subsec. (b), and inserted “human health,” before “fish”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Section 2 is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 2. As used in this Act— “(1) ‘a substance other than convention oil’ means those oils, noxious substances, liquefied gases, and radioactive substances— “(A) enumerated in the protocol, or “(B) otherwise determined to be hazardous under section 4(a); “(2) ‘convention’ means the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969, including annexes thereto: “(3) ‘convention oil’ means crude oil, fuel oil, diesel oil, and lubricating oil; “(4) ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating; “(5) ‘ship’ means— “(A) a seagoing vessel of any type whatsoever, and “(B) any floating craft, except an installation or device engaged in the exploration and exploitation of the resources of the seabed and the ocean floor and the subsoil thereof; “(6) ‘protocol’ means the Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other Than Oil, 1973, including annexes thereto; and “(7) ‘United States’ means the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mananas, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.”.

   Effective date note
   For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 95–302, see section 2 of Pub. L. 95–302, set out as a note under section 1487 of this title.

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