Company: TEN-PE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-079101
Chunk: 73

Company: TSAKOS ENERGY NAVIGATION LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 73
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 to discharge ballast water and other wastewater into U. S. waters by submitting a Notice of Intent (a “ NOI”). The most recent VGP (the “2013 VGP”) became effective in December 2013 and then expired on December 18, 2018, although its provisions remain in force, as described below. The 2013 VGP requires vessel owners and operators to comply with a range of best management practices, reporting, record keeping and other requirements for a number of incidental discharge types and incorporates current USCG requirements for ballast water management, as well as supplemental ballast water requirements. The 2013 VGP included ballast water numeric discharge limits and best management practices for certain discharges. On June 11, 2012 the USCG and the EPA published a memorandum of understanding which provides for collaboration on the enforcement of the VGP requirements, and the USCG routinely includes the VGP as part of its normal Port State Control inspections.

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On December 4, 2018, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (“ VIDA”) was signed into law establishing a new framework for the regulation of vessel incidental discharges under the CWA. VIDA requires the EPA to develop performance standards for those discharges within two years of enactment and requires the USCG to develop implementation, compliance, and enforcement regulations within two years of EPA’s promulgation of standards. Under VIDA, all provisions of the 2013 VGP will remain in force and effect until the USCG regulations are finalized. On October 26, 2020, the EPA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Vessel Incident Discharge National Standards of Performance in the Federal Register for public comment. The comment period closed on November 25, 2020.

We comply with the VGP and the record keeping requirements, and we do not believe that the costs associated with obtaining such permits and complying with the associated obligations will have a material impact on our operations.

In August 2021, a Federal Judge in California ordered the EPA to update its regulations about the chemicals that can be used to disperse offshore oil spills. Regulatory revisions were published in the Federal Register on June 12, 2023 and became effective six months later (December 11, 2023).

  iv.      The Clear Air Act  

The Clean Air Act. The CAA requires the EPA to promulgate standards applicable to emissions of volatile organic compounds and other air contaminants. Our vessels are subject to