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[CITE: 42USC9162]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
               CHAPTER 99--OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 9162. International negotiations

    The Secretary of State, in cooperation with the Administrator and 
the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, 
shall seek effective international action and cooperation in support of 
the policy and purposes of this chapter and may initiate and conduct 
negotiations for the purpose of entering into international agreements 
designed to guarantee noninterference of ocean thermal energy conversion 
facilities and plantships with the thermal gradients used by other such 
facilities and plantships, to assure protection of such facilities and 
plantships and of navigational safety in the vicinity thereof, and to 
resolve such other matters relating to ocean thermal energy conversion 
facilities and plantships as need to be resolved in international 
agreements.

(Pub. L. 96-320, title IV, Sec. 402, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 998.)
