A bill to amend the Intervention on the High Seas Act to implement the Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances Other Than Oil, 1973.

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Amends the Intervention on the High Seas Act to redefine terms and establish procedures in a manner consistent with the Protocol Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances Other Than Oil, 1973. Places the burden of proof on the United States to establish that the substance reasonably could have posed a grave and imminent danger at the time of the intervention in actions brought against the United States for use of excessive measures during the course of an intervention. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to determine when a substance other than those enumerated in the Protocol is liable to create a hazard. Permits the President to accept amendments to the list of substances contained in the Protocol, other than convention oil.

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 27 June 1978

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 5 June 1978

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 15 December 1977

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