42 U.S.C. § 9161: Law of the Sea Treaty

Summary

If the United States approves a U.N. Law of the Sea treaty that covers who controls ocean thermal energy conversion, the Administrator must, after talking with the Secretary of State, make any rule changes needed to bring current regulations into line with the treaty before it takes effect for the United States.

Title 42, §9161

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If the United States ratifies a treaty, which includes provisions with respect to jurisdiction over ocean thermal energy conversion activities, resulting from any United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of State, shall promulgate any amendment to the regulations promulgated under this chapter which is necessary and appropriate to conform such regulations to the provisions of such treaty, in anticipation of the date when such treaty shall come into force and effect for, or otherwise be applicable to, the United States.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 96–320, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 974, known as the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 9101 of this title and Tables.

§9161 Law of the Sea Treaty