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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1473. Consultations and determinations respecting creation of hazards to human health, etc.; criteria for determinations respecting grave and imminent dangers of major harmful consequences to United States coastline or related interests
(a) The Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Commerce,
shall determine when a substance other than those enumerated in the
protocol is liable to create a hazard to human health, to harm
living resources, to damage amenities, or to interfere with other
legitimate uses of the sea.
(b) In determining whether there is grave and imminent danger of
major harmful consequences to the coastline or related interests of
the United States, the Secretary shall consider the interests of
the United States directly threatened or affected including but not
limited to, human health, fish, shellfish, and other living marine
resources, wildlife, coastal zone and estuarine activities, and
public and private shorelines and beaches.
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