Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§1441 Monitoring and Research Program
Title 33 › CHAPTER 27 — OCEAN DUMPING › SUBCHAPTER II — RESEARCH › § 1441
Summary
Start within six months of October 23, 1972, a program: Commerce Secretary, with Coast Guard and Administrator, must study dumping into ocean, tidal, and Great Lakes waters.
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Title 33, §1441
Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating and with the Administrator shall, within six months of October 23, 1972, initiate a comprehensive and continuing program of monitoring and research regarding the effects of the dumping of material into ocean waters or other coastal waters where the tide ebbs and flows or into the Great Lakes or their connecting waters.
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Amendments
1986—Pub. L. 99–272 struck out provision which had required the Secretary of Commerce to report from time to time, not less frequently than annually, his findings under this section (including an evaluation of the short-term ecological effects and the social and economic factors involved) to the Congress.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
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33 U.S.C. § 1441
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102