Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 72401
Findings and Declarations
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2013
As of January 1, 2011
The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the protection and enhancement of the quality of the marine waters of the state requires that the release of sewage from large passenger vessels, and the release of sewage and graywater from oceangoing ships with sufficient holding tank capacity, into the marine waters of the state should be prohibited.
(a) To protect and enhance the quality of the marine waters of the state all of the following should be prohibited: (1) The release of graywater or sewage by a large passenger vessel into the marine waters of the state or a marine sanctuary. (2) The release of hazardous waste, other waste, sewage sludge, or oily bilgewater by a large passenger vessel or oceangoing ship into the marine waters of the state or a marine sanctuary. (3) The release of graywater or sewage by an oceangoing ship into the marine waters of the state or a marine sanctuary.
(b) The Legislature intends to request the Congress of the United States to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 and following) to provide California with authority similar to that granted to the State of Alaska by Public Law 106-554, to regulate the release of sewage from large passenger vessels and oceangoing ships in the marine waters of the state.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends that date.
(b) In response to an application from the State of California pursuant to this division, beginning March 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency prohibited the discharge of all sewage from large passenger vessels and large oceangoing ships, and created a No Discharge Zone along California’s 1,624-mile coastline from Mexico to Oregon and surrounding islands, the largest No Discharge Zone in the nation.
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