2012 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 38 - DUMPING OF MEDICAL WASTE BY PUBLIC VESSELS (§§ 2501 - 2504)
Section 2501 - Findings
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 38 - DUMPING OF MEDICAL WASTE BY PUBLIC VESSELS Sec. 2501 - Findings |
| Contains | section 2501 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Short Titles | United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1988.</p> |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 100-688, title III, §3102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152. |
| Statutes at Large References | 102 Stat. 4152 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 100-688 |
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The Congress finds the following:
(1) The washing ashore of potentially infectious medical wastes from public vessels of the United States may pose serious and widespread risks to public health and to the welfare of coastal communities.
(2) Current Federal law provides inadequate protections against the disposal of such wastes from such vessels into ocean waters.
(3) Operators of such vessels must take immediate action to stop disposing of such wastes into ocean waters.
(Pub. L. 100–688, title III, §3102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)
Short TitlePub. L. 100–688, title III, §3101, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle A (§§3101–3105) of title III of Pub. L. 100–688, enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1988’.”
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