Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§3824 Process for Considering Additional Controls

Title 33 › CHAPTER 51 — CLEAN HULLS › SUBCHAPTER II — IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION › § 3824

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The EPA Administrator may join the Convention’s technical group and other bodies that look at new limits on antifouling systems. The Administrator can check risks to other sea life and to people, study environmental, technical, and economic factors (including benefits in the U.S. and elsewhere), and then make recommendations based on that study. When an antifouling system is sent to the technical group, the Secretary of State must hold a public Shipping Coordinating Committee meeting to gather information and comments, and must announce the meeting in the Federal Register and on the State Department website. The EPA must keep a public docket with the meeting notices, comments, minutes, and materials; post the technical group’s report there; announce its availability in the Federal Register; allow at least 30 days for public comment after that announcement; and, when possible, use those comments when making its recommendations.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §3824

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(a)Actions by Administrator (b) Referrals to technical group

The Administrator may—

(1)participate in the technical group described in Article 7 of the Convention, and in any other body convened pursuant to the Convention for the consideration of new or additional controls on antifouling systems;

(2)evaluate any risks of adverse effects on nontarget organisms or human health presented by a given antifouling system such that the amendment of annex 1 of the Convention may be warranted;

(3)undertake an assessment of relevant environmental, technical, and economic considerations necessary to evaluate any proposals for new or additional controls of antifouling systems under the Convention, including benefits in the United States and elsewhere associated with the production and use in the United States and elsewhere, of the subject antifouling system; and

(4)develop recommendations based on that assessment.

Reference

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 3824

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110