Reception facilities: Capacity and exceptions.

  1. Law
  2. CFR 33
  3. Navigation and Navigable Waters
  4. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security
  5. Pollution
  6. Reception Facilities for Oil, Noxious Liquid Substances, and Garbage
  7. Criteria for Adequacy of Reception Facilities: Garbage
  8. Reception facilities: Capacity and exceptions.

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§ 158.420 Reception facilities: Capacity and exceptions.

Each day a port or terminal is in operation, the person in charge of a port or terminal must provide, or ensure the availability of, a reception facility that is capable of receiving all garbage that the master or person who is in charge of a ship desires to discharge, except -

(a) Large quantities of spoiled or damaged cargoes not usually discharged by a ship; or

(b) Garbage from ships not having commercial transactions with that port or terminal.


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