33 USC 1441: Monitoring and research program
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33 USC 1441: Monitoring and research program Text contains those laws in effect on January 2, 2001
From Title 33-NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERSCHAPTER 27-OCEAN DUMPINGSUBCHAPTER II-RESEARCH
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§1441. Monitoring and research program

The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating and with the Administrator shall, within six months of October 23, 1972, initiate a comprehensive and continuing program of monitoring and research regarding the effects of the dumping of material into ocean waters or other coastal waters where the tide ebbs and flows or into the Great Lakes or their connecting waters.

( Pub. L. 92–532, title II, §201, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1060 ; Pub. L. 99–272, title VI, §6061, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 131 .)

Amendments

1986-Pub. L. 99–272 struck out provision which had required the Secretary of Commerce to report from time to time, not less frequently than annually, his findings under this section (including an evaluation of the short-term ecological effects and the social and economic factors involved) to the Congress.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 1444 of this title.