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Special Area Solid Waste Discharge Standards for Ships Decommissioning Between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005

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[Federal Register: January 26, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 18)]
[Notices]
[Page 7876]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr26ja01-18]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Special Area Solid Waste Discharge Standards for Ships
Decommissioning Between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Section 324 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1997, Public Law 104-201, requires the Secretary of the
Navy to prescribe and publish in the Federal Register standards to
ensure that ships decommissioning between January 1, 2001, and December
31, 2005, are to the maximum extent practicable without impairing the
operations or operational capabilities of the ship, operated in a
manner that is consistent with the special area requirements of
Regulation 5 of Annex V to The International Convention for the
Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) and provide a list of the
applicable ships.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Louis Maiuri, Office of the Chief
of Naval Operations Environmental Protection, Safety and Occupational
Health Division, Crystal Plaza #4, Room 654, 2211 South Clark Place,
Arlington, Virginia, 22244-5108, telephone number (703) 602-2602.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MARPOL as amended by the MARPOL Protocol of
1978, protects the ocean environment by prohibiting some discharges
altogether, restricting other discharges to particular distances from
land, and establishing ``special areas'' within which additional
discharge limitations apply. One of the discharges specified for
restriction under MARPOL Annex V is solid waste.
    Ships that are decommissioning between January 1, 2001, and
December 31, 2005, and do not have Navy solid waste equipment
installed, will, to the maximum extent practicable without impairing
the operations or operational capabilities of these ships, be operated
in a manner that is consistent with the special area requirements of
Regulation 5 of Annex V of MARPOL in accordance with the following
standards:
    Prior to entering a special area, surface ships will identify
essential logistics requirements needed to facilitate the offload and
disposal of shipboard garbage at either port reception facilities or
supply ships, which have the capacity to receive and store other ship's
garbage for transfer and disposal ashore.
    Surface ships may not discharge unprocessed garbage in the special
areas defined in Regulation 5 of ANNEX V unless such discharge is in
compliance with the applicable exceptions listed in Regulation 6 of
ANNEX V which states that the prohibition on the discharge of garbage
in special areas ``* * * shall not apply to:
    (a) the disposal of garbage from a ship necessary for the purpose
of securing the safety of a ship and those on board or saving life at
sea, or
    (b) the escape of garbage resulting from damage to a ship or its
equipment provided all reasonable precautions have been taken before
and after the occurrence of the damage for the purpose of preventing or
minimizing the escape; * * *''
    On the unusual occasions in which a discharge may be necessary in a
special area in accordance with the exceptions noted above, surface
ships shall use all available means to cause unprocessed garbage to
sink as rapidly as possible. The commanding officer shall note the
details of such a discharge (date of discharge, special area involved,
and nature and amount of discharge) in the ship's deck log. Upon
completion of operations in a special area in which a garbage discharge
was necessary, ships shall report all discharges other than food waste,
pulped garbage and shredded and bagged metal and glass to CNO (N45),
regarding:
    (a) Date of discharge.
    (b) Special area involved.
    (c) Nature and amount of discharge (estimated pounds of unshredded
metal and glass; unpulped wood, paper and cardboard; ceramic; or other
non-food material).
    These standards apply to the following ships:
USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64)
USS HEWITT (DD 966)
USS AUSTIN (LPD 4)
USS OGDEN (LPD 5)
USS WADSWORTH (FFG 9)
USS GEORGE PHILIP (FFG 12)
USS SAMUEL E. MORISON (FFG 13)
USS SIDES (FFG 14)
USS ESTOCIN (FFG 15)

    Dated: January 11, 2001.
J.L. Roth,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-2392 Filed 1-25-01; 8:45 am]
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