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[CITE: 16USC4713]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
           CHAPTER 67--AQUATIC NUISANCE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
      SUBCHAPTER II--PREVENTION OF UNINTENTIONAL INTRODUCTIONS OF 
                      NONINDIGENOUS AQUATIC SPECIES
 
Sec. 4713. Armed services ballast water programs


(a) Department of Defense vessels

    Subject to operational conditions, the Secretary of Defense, in 
consultation with the Secretary, the Task Force, and the International 
Maritime Organization, shall implement a ballast water management 
program for seagoing vessels of the Department of Defense to minimize 
the risk of introduction of nonindigenous species from releases of 
ballast water.

(b) Coast Guard vessels

    Subject to operational conditions, the Secretary, in consultation 
with the Task Force and the International Maritime Organization, shall 
implement a ballast water management program for seagoing vessels of the 
Coast Guard to minimize the risk of introduction of nonindigenous 
species from releases of ballast water.

(Pub. L. 101-646, title I, Sec. 1103, as added Pub. L. 104-332, 
Sec. 2(d), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4083.)
