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PART 2—MARITIME POLLUTION 
SEC. 8451. REFERENCES. 
Wherever in this part 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. 8452. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 2(a) (33 U.S.C. 1901(a)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 
(12) as paragraphs (2) through (13), respectively; 
(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 
(5) by redesignating paragraphs (7) through 
(13) (as redesignated) as paragraphs (8) through 
(14), respectively, and inserting after paragraph (6) 
(as redesignated) the following: 
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‘‘(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. 8453. 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 
the internal waters of the United States, and is 
in— 
‘‘(i) the navigable waters of the 
United States; 
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‘‘(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 that is adjacent to any part 
of the proposed area, has designated by 
order as being an area from which emis-
sions from ships are of concern with re-
spect to protection of public health, wel-
fare, or the environment; 
‘‘(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 that is adjacent to any part 
of the proposed area, has designated by 
order as being an area from which emis-
sions from ships are of concern with re-
spect to protection of public health, wel-
fare, or the environment; and 
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