Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 55 — Save Our Seas 2.0
§ 4265. Consideration of marine debris in negotiating international agreements
Statutory text
In negotiating any relevant international agreement with any country or countries after , the President shall, as appropriate—
consider the impact of land-based sources of plastic waste and other solid waste from that country on the marine and aquatic environment; and
ensure that the agreement strengthens efforts to eliminate land-based sources of plastic waste and other solid waste from that country that impact the marine and aquatic environment.
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.
Save Our Seas 2.0 Act
Pub. L. 116–224 title II § 206 · 134 Stat. 1072
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 4265
(Pub. L. 116–224, title II, § 206, Dec. 18, 2020, 134 Stat. 1091.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–224, title II, § 206, Dec. 18, 2020, 134 Stat. 1091.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 206. CONSIDERATION OF MARINE DEBRIS IN NEGOTIATING INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. In negotiating any relevant international agreement with any country or countries after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall, as appropriate— (1) consider the impact of land-based sources of plastic waste and other solid waste from that country on the marine and aquatic environment; and (2) ensure that the agreement strengthens efforts to eliminate land-based sources of plastic waste and other solid waste from that country that impact the marine and aquatic environment.
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