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[CITE: 33USC2501]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER 38--DUMPING OF MEDICAL WASTE BY PUBLIC VESSELS
 
Sec. 2501. Findings

    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, Sec. 3102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)


                               Short Title

    Section 3101 of subtitle A [Secs. 3101-3105] of title III of Pub. L. 
100-688 provided that: ``This subtitle [enacting this chapter] may be 
cited as the `United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act 
of 1988'.''
