II 
Calendar No. 828 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 802 
[Report No. 110–394] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 27, 2007 
Received 
MARCH 28, 2007 
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation 
JUNE 23, 2008 
Reported by Mr. INOUYE, with an amendment 
[Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships to 
implement MARPOL Annex VI. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Maritime Pollution 
Prevention Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. REFERENCES. 
Wherever in this Act an amendment or repeal is ex-
pressed in terms of an amendment to or a repeal of a sec-
tion or other provision, the reference shall be considered 
to be made to a section or other provision of the Act to 
Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.). 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 2(a) (33 U.S.C. 1901(a)) is amended— 
(1)
by
redesignating
the
paragraphs
(1) 
through (12) as paragraphs (2) through (13), re-
spectively; 
(2) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(1) ‘Administrator’ means the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated) by 
striking ‘‘and V’’ and inserting ‘‘V, and VI’’; 
(4) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated) by 
striking ‘‘ ‘discharge’ and ‘garbage’ and ‘harmful 
substance’
and
‘incident’ ’’
and
inserting
‘‘ ‘dis-
charge’, ‘emission’, ‘garbage’, ‘harmful substance’, 
and ‘incident’ ’’; and 
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(5) by redesignating paragraphs (7) through 
(13) (as redesignated) as paragraphs (8) through 
(14), respectively, and inserting after paragraph (6) 
(as redesignated) the following: 
‘‘(7) ‘navigable waters’ includes the territorial 
sea of the United States (as defined in Presidential 
Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988) and the 
internal waters of the United States;’’. 
SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY. 
Section 3 (33 U.S.C. 1902) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (3); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (4) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) with respect to Annex VI to the Conven-
tion, and other than with respect to a ship referred 
to in paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) to a ship that is in a port, shipyard, 
offshore terminal, or the internal waters of the 
United States; 
‘‘(B) to a ship that is bound for, or depart-
ing from, a port, shipyard, offshore terminal, or 
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the internal waters of the United States, and is 
in— 
‘‘(i)
the
navigable
waters
of
the 
United States; 
‘‘(ii) an emission control area des-
ignated pursuant to section 4; or 
‘‘(iii) any other area that the Admin-
istrator, in consultation with the Secretary 
and each State in which any part of the 
area is located, has designated by order as 
being an area from which emissions from 
ships are of concern with respect to protec-
tion of public health, welfare, or the envi-
ronment; 
‘‘(C) to a ship that is entitled to fly the 
flag of, or operating under the authority of, a 
party to Annex VI, and is in— 
‘‘(i)
the
navigable
waters
of
the 
United States; 
‘‘(ii) an emission control area des-
ignated under section 4; or 
‘‘(iii) any other area that the Admin-
istrator, in consultation with the Secretary 
and each State in which any part of the 
area is located, has designated by order as 
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being an area from which emissions from 
ships are of concern with respect to protec-
tion of public health, welfare, or the envi-
ronment; and 
‘‘(D) to the extent consistent with inter-
national law, to any other ship that is in— 
‘‘(i) the exclusive economic zone of the 
United States; 
‘‘(ii)
the
navigable
waters
of
the 
United States; 
‘‘(iii) an emission control area des-
ignated under section 4; or 
‘‘(iv) any other area that the Adminis-
trator, in consultation with the Secretary 
and each State in which any part of the 
area is located, has designated by order as 
being an area from which emissions from 
ships are of concern with respect to protec-
tion of public health, welfare, or the envi-
ronment.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘para-
graph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (2) and 
(3)’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
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