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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

§ 878b. Safety and health regulations for scientific and occupational diving

Statutory text

On and after , the Secretary of Commerce is permitted to prescribe and enforce standards or regulations affecting safety and health in the context of scientific and occupational diving within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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. Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2009

    Pub. L. 111–8 div. B title I § 106 · 123 Stat. 524

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 878b

    (Pub. L. 111–8, div. B, title I, § 106, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 568.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 111–8, div. B, title I, § 106, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 568.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 106. Hereafter, the Secretary of Commerce is permitted to prescribe and enforce standards or regulations affecting safety and health in the context of scientific and occupational diving within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2009, which is title I of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, which is div. B of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009.

Similar Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior appropriation act:

Pub. L. 110–161, div. B, title I, § 110, , 121 Stat. 1893.

Credits

(Pub. L. 111–8, div. B, title I, § 106, , 123 Stat. 568.)

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