PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1747 "(3) Except when necessary for the purpose of securing the safety of the ship, the health of the ship's personnel, or saving life at sea, it shall he a violation of this Act for a ship referred to in subsection (b)(l)(A) of this section that is owned or operated by the Department of the Navy: (A) With regard to a submersible, to discharge buoyant garbage or garbage that contains more than the minimum amount practicable of plastic. "(B) With regard to a surface ship, to discharge plastic contaminated by food during the last 3 days before the ship entersport. "(C) With regard to a surface ship, to discharge plastic, except plastic that is contaminated by food, during the last 20 days before the ship enters port. "(4) The Secretary of Defense shall publish in the Federal Federal Register: ^ubiifti n
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until October 1, 2000, the amount and nature of the discharges in special areas, not otherwise authorized under Annex V to the Convention, during the preceding year from ships referred to in subsection (b)(l)(A) of this section owned or operated by the Department of the Navy. "(B) Beginning on October 1, 1996, and each year thereafter until October 1, 1998, a list of the names of such ships equipped with plastic processors pursuant to section 1003(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994.". (d) WAIVER AUTHORITY.— Section 3 of such Act, as amended by subsection (c), is further amended by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection: "(0 WAIVER AUTHORITY.— The President may waive the effective dates of the requirements set forth in subsection (c) of this section and in subsection 1003(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 if the President determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Any such waiver shall be for a period not in excess of one year. The President shall submit to the Congress each January a report on all waivers from the requirements of this section granted during the preceding calendar year, together with the reasons for granting such waivers.. (e) OTHER ACTIONS.— (1) Not later than October 1, 1994, the 33 USC 1902 Secretary of the Navy shall release a request for proposals for "°^®- equipment (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as "plastics processor") required for the long-term collection and storage of plastic aboard ships owned or operated by the Navy. (2) Not later than July 1, 1996, the Secretary shall install the first production unit of the plastics processor on board a ship owned or operated by the Navy. (3) Not later than March 1, 1997, the Secretary shall complete the installation of plastics processors on board not less than 25 percent of the ships owned or operated by the Navy that require Plastics processors to comply with section 3 of the Act to Prevent 'oUution from Ships, as amended by subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section. (4) Not later than July 1, 1997, the Secretary shall complete the installation of plastics processors on board not less than 50 percent of the ships owned or operated by the Navy that require processors to comply with section 3 of such Act, as amended by subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section.
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