[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1728 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1728

     To require Navy compliance with shipboard solid waste control 
                              requirements


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 3, 1996

  Mr. Stevens introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require Navy compliance with shipboard solid waste control 
                              requirements

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NAVY COMPLIANCE WITH SHIPBOARD SOLID WASTE CONTROL 
              REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 3(c) of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 
1902(c)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c) Discharges in Special Areas.--
            ``(1) Not later than December 31, 2000, all surface ships 
        owned or operated by the Department of the Navy, and not later 
        than December 31, 2008, all submersibles owned or operated by 
        the Department of the Navy, shall comply with the special area 
        requirements of Regulation 5 of Annex V to the Convention, 
        except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this 
        subsection.
            ``(2) Vessels owned or operated by the Department of the 
        Navy for which the Secretary of the Navy determines that, due 
        to a uniquely military design, construction, manning or 
        operating requirements, full compliance with paragraph (1) 
        would not be technologically feasible, or would impair the 
        vessel's operations or operational capability, are authorized 
        to discharge non-plastic and non-floating garbage consisting 
        of--
                    ``(A) a slurry of seawater, paper, cardboard and 
                food waste, provided such slurry is discharged not less 
                than three nautical miles from the nearest land and is 
                capable of passing through a screen with openings of no 
                greater than 12 millimeters; and
                    ``(B) metal and glass garbage that has been 
                shredded and bagged to ensure negative buoyancy and is 
                discharged not less than twelve nautical miles from the 
                nearest land.
            ``(3) Not later than December 31, 2000, the Secretary of 
        the Navy shall publish in the Federal Register--
                    ``(A) a list of those vessels planned to be 
                decommissioned between January 1, 2001, and December 
                31, 2005; and
                    ``(B) standards to ensure, so far as reasonable and 
                practicable, without impairing the operations or 
                operational capabilities of such vessels, that such 
                vessels act in a manner that is consistent with the 
                special area requirements of Regulation 5 of Annex V.
            ``(4) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) of this 
        section, it shall be the goal of the Department of the Navy to 
        achieve eventual full compliance with Annex V as part of the 
        Department's ongoing development of environmentally sound 
        ships.''.
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