Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 38 — Dumping of Medical Waste by Public Vessels
§ 2501. Findings
Statutory text
The Congress finds the following:
The washing ashore of potentially infectious medical wastes from public vessels of the United States may pose serious and widespread risks to public health and to the welfare of coastal communities.
Current Federal law provides inadequate protections against the disposal of such wastes from such vessels into ocean waters.
Operators of such vessels must take immediate action to stop disposing of such wastes into ocean waters.
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.
United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–688 title III § 3102 · 102 Stat. 4139
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2501
(Pub. L. 100–688, title III, § 3102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–688, title III, § 3102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 3102. FINDINGS. The Congress finds the following: (1) The washing ashore of potentially infectious medical wastes from public vessels of the United States may pose serious and widespread risks to public health and to the welfare of coastal communities. (2) Current Federal law provides inadequate protections against the disposal of such wastes from such vessels into ocean waters. (3) Operators of such vessels must take immediate action to stop disposing of such wastes into ocean waters.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 100–688, title III, § 3101, , 102 Stat. 4152, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle A (§§ 3101–3105) of title III of Pub. L. 100–688, enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1988’.”