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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1411. Prohibited acts
(a) Except as may be authorized by a permit issued pursuant to
section 1412 or section 1413 of this title, and subject to
regulations issued pursuant to section 1418 of this title,
(1) no person shall transport from the United States, and
(2) in the case of a vessel or aircraft registered in the
United States or flying the United States flag or in the case of
a United States department, agency, or instrumentality, no person
shall transport from any location
any material for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters.
(b) Except as may be authorized by a permit issued pursuant to
section 1412 of this title, and subject to regulations issued
pursuant to section 1418 of this title, no person shall dump any
material transported from a location outside the United States (1)
into the territorial sea of the United States, or (2) into a zone
contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States, extending
to a line twelve nautical miles seaward from the base line from
which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, to the extent
that it may affect the territorial sea or the territory of the
United States.
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