§ 1473. — Consultations and determinations respecting creation of hazards to human health, etc.; criteria for determinations respecting grave and imminent dangers of major harmful consequences to United States coastline or related interests.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1473]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 28--POLLUTION CASUALTIES ON THE HIGH SEAS: UNITED STATES
INTERVENTION
Sec. 1473. Consultations and determinations respecting creation
of hazards to human health, etc.; criteria for determinations
respecting grave and imminent dangers of major harmful
consequences to United States coastline or related interests
(a) The Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Commerce, shall
determine when a substance other than those enumerated in the protocol
is liable to create a hazard to human health, to harm living resources,
to damage amenities, or to interfere with other legitimate uses of the
sea.
(b) In determining whether there is grave and imminent danger of
major harmful consequences to the coastline or related interests of the
United States, the Secretary shall consider the interests of the United
States directly threatened or affected including but not limited to,
human health, fish, shellfish, and other living marine resources,
wildlife, coastal zone and estuarine activities, and public and private
shorelines and beaches.
(Pub. L. 93-248, Sec. 4, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9; Pub. L. 95-302,
Sec. 1(3), June 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 344.)
Amendments
1978--Pub. L. 95-302 added subsec. (a), designated existing
provisions as subsec. (b), and inserted ``human health,'' before
``fish''.
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment
For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 95-302, see section 2 of
Pub. L. 95-302, set out as a note under section 1487 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1471, 1479 of this title.
