An Act to amend the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act, 1961 (33 U.S.C. 1001-1015), to implement the provisions of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, as amended, and for other purposes
PL 89-551 (H.R.8760), enacted 09/01/1966

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Membership 
quirements. 
the nations of the earth; to preserve the memories and incidents of 
the two World Wars and the other great hostilities fought to uphold 
democracy; to cement the ties and comradeship bom of service; and 
to consecrate the efforts of its members to mutual helpfulness and 
service to their country." 
SEC. 2. That section 5 of said Act of September 16, 1919 (41 Stat. 
285* 36 U.S.C. 45), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. No person shall be a member of this corporation unless he 
has served in the naval or military services of the United States at 
some time during any of the following periods: April 6, 1917, to 
November 11, 1918; December 7,1941, to September 2, 1945; June 25, 
1950, to July 27, 1953; August 5, 1964, to the date of cessation of 
hostilities as determined by the Government of the United States, all 
dates inclusive, or who, being a citizen of the United States at the 
time of entry therein, served in the military or naval service of any 
of the governments associated with the United States during said 
wars or hostilities: Provided^ hotoe'ver^ That such person shall have 
an honorable discharge or separation from such service or continues 
to serve honorably after any of the aforesaid terminal dates." 
Approved September 1, 1966, 1:22 p.m. 
Public Law 89-551 
September 1, 19 66 
[H. R. 8 760] 
AN ACT 
To amend the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act, 1961 (33 U.S.C. 1001-1015), to 
implement the provisions of the International Convention for the Prevention 
of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, as amended, and for other purposes. 
Oil Pollution 
Act, 1961, amend-
ments. 
75 Stat. 402. 
12 UST 2989. 
Definitions. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the "Oil Pollu-
tion Act, 1961" approved August 30, 1961 (33 U.S.C. 1001-1015), is 
amended as follows: 
(1) Section 1 is amended by inserting after the title "International 
Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 
1954" the phrase "as amended," and by changing the designation of 
the Act from "Oil Pollution Act, 1961" to "Oil Pollution Act, 1961, 
as amended . 
(2) Section 2 (33 U.S.C. 1001) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a) by changing the semicolon to a comma 
at the end thereof and by adding "as amended;"; 
(B) in subsection (c) by changing the reference at the end 
thereof from "D. 158/53;" to "D. 86/59;"; 
(C) by amending subsection (e) to read as follows: 
"(e) The term 'oil' means crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil, and 
lubricating oil, and 'oily' shall be construed accordingly. 
An 'oily 
mixture' means a mixture with an oil content of one hundred parts or 
more in one million parts of mixture." 
(D) by amending subsection (i) to read as follows: 
"(i) The term 'ship', subject to the exceptions provided in para-
graph (1) of this subsection, means any seagoing vessel of any type 
whatsoever of American registry or nationality, including floating 
craft, whether self-propelled or towed by another vessel making a sea 
voyage; and 'tanker', as a type included within the term 'ship', means 
a ship in which the greater part of the cargo space is constructed or 
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adapted for the carriage of liquid cargoes in bulk and which is not, for 
the time being, carrying a cargo other than oil in that part of its cargo 
space. 
"(1) The following categories of vessels are excepted from all 
vessels 
provisions of the Act: 
"(i) tankers of under one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage 
and other ships of under five hundred tons gross tonnage. 
"(ii) ships for the time being engaged in the whaling industry 
when actually employed on whaling operations. 
"(iii) ships for the time being navigating the Great Lakes of 
North America and their connecting and tributary waters as far 
east as the lower exit of Saint Lambert lock at Montreal in the 
Province of Quebec, Canada. 
"(iv) naval ships and ships for the time being used as naval 
auxiliaries." 
(E) by adding a new subsection (j) reading as follows: 
"(j) The term 'from the nearest land' means from the baseline from ne"^'""'",^^^ „ 
which the territorial sea of the territory in question is established in 
accordance with the Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the 
Contiguous Zone, 1958." 
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(3) Section 3 (33 U.S.C. 1002) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 3. Subiect to the provisions of sections 4 and 5, it shall be 
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unlawiul tor any person to discharge oil or oily mixture irom: 
"(a) a tanker within any of the prohibited zones. 
"(b) a ship, other than a tanker, within any of the prohibited 
zones, except w^hen the ship is proceeding to a port not provided 
with facilities adequate for the reception, without causing undue 
delay, it may discharge such residues and oily mixture as would 
remain for disjjosal if the bulk of the water had been separated 
from the mixture: Provided^ such discharge is made as far as 
practicable from land. 
"(c) a ship of twenty thousand tons gross tonnage or more, 
including a tanker, for which the building contract is placed on 
or after the effective date of this Act. However, if in the opinion 
Special cir-
of the master, special circumstances make it neither reasonable '^""^ an^es. 
nor practicable to retain the oil or oily mixture on board, it may 
be discharged outside the prohibited zones. The reasons for such 
discharge shall be reported in accordance with the regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary." 
(4) Section 4 (33 U.S.C. 1003) is amended to read as follows: 
Exceptions. 
"SEC. 4. Section 3 shall not apply to— 
"(a) the discharge of oil or oily mixture from a ship for the 
purpose of securing the safety of a ship, preventing damage to 
a ship or cargo, or saving life at sea; or 
"(b) the escape of oil, or of oily mixture, resulting from dam-
age to a ship or unavoidable leakage, if all reasonable precautions 
have been taken after the occurrence of the damage or discovery 
of the leakage for the purpose of preventing or minimizing the 
escape; 
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oily mixtures 
from bilges. 
Oil record 
books. 
65 Stat. 290. 
Penalty. 
"(c) the discharge of residue arising from the purification or 
clarification of fuel oil or lubricating oil: Provided^ That such 
discharge is made as far from land as practicable." 
(5) Section 5 (33 U.S.C. 1004) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. Section 3 shall not apply to the discharge from the bilges of 
a ship of an oily mixture containing no oil other than lubricating oil 
which has drained or leaked from machinery spaces." 
(6) Section 9 (33 U.S.C. 1008) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary shall have printed separate oil record 
books, containing instructions and spaces for inserting information in 
the form prescribed by the Convention, which shall be published in 
regulations prescribed bj^ the Secretary. 
"(b) If subject to this Act, every ship using oil fuel and every 
tanker shall be provided, without charge, an oil record book which 
shall be carried on board. 
The provisions of section 140 of title 5, 
United States Code, shall not apply. 
The ownership of the booklet 
shall remain in the United States Government. 
This book shall be 
available for inspection as provided in this Act and for surrender to 
the United States Government pursuant to regulations of the 
Secreta^. 
"(c) The oil record book shall be completed on each occasion, when-
ever any of the following operations takes place in the ship: 
"(1) ballasting of and discharge of ballast from cargo tanks 
of tankers; 
" (2) cleaning of cargo tanks of tankers; 
"(3) settling in slop tanks and discharge of water from 
tankers; 
"(4) disposal from tankers of oily residues from slop tanks 
or other sources; 
" (5) ballasting, or cleaning during voyage, of bunker fuel tanks 
of ships other than tankers; 
"(6) disposal from ships other than tankers of oily residues 
from bunker fuel tanks or other sources; 
"(7) accidental or other exceptional discharges or escapes of 
oil from tankers or ships other than tankers. 
"In the event of such discharge or escape of oil or oily mixture, as 
is referred to in subsection 3(c) and section 4 of this Act, a state-
ment shall be made in the oil record book of the circumstances of, and 
reason for, the discharge or escape. 
"(d) Each operation described in subsection 9(c) of the Act shall 
be fully recorded without delay in the oil record book so that all the 
entries in the book appropriate to that operation are completed. 
Each 
page of the book shall be signed by the officer or officers in charge of 
the operations concerned and, when the ship is manned, by the master 
of the ship. 
"(e) Oil record books shall be kept in such manner and for such 
length of time as set forth in the regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary. 
"(f) If any person fails to comply with the requirements imposed 
by or under this section, he shall be liable on conviction to a fine not 
exceeding $1,000 nor less than $500 and if any person makes an entry 
in any records kept in accordance with this Act or regulations pre-
scribed thereunder by the Secretary which is to his knowledge false 
or misleading in any material particular, he shall be liable on con-
viction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 nor less than $500 or imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding six months, or both." 
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(7) Section 10 (33 U.S.C. 1009) is amended by changing the phrase 
at the end thereof from "and 9"' to "9, and 12." 
(8) Section 12 (33 U.S.C. 1011) is amended to read as follows: ^^P;^'^^^"''^ 
"SEC. 12. (a) All sea areas within fifty miles from the nearest land 
shall be prohibited zones, subject to extensions or reduction effectuated 
in accordance with the terms of the Convention, which shall be pub-
lished in regulations prescribed by the Secretary. 
"(b) With respect to the reduction or extension of the zones 
described under the terms of the Convention, the Secretary shall give 
notice thereof by publication of such information in Notices to Mari-
ners issued by the United States Coast Guard and United States 
Navy." 
(9) Section 13 (33 U.S.C. 1012) is repealed. 
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(10) Section 17 (33 U.S.C. 1015) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 17. (a) This Act shall become effective upon the date of its Effective date. 
enactment or upon the date the amended Convention becomes effective 
as to the United States, whichever is the later date. 
"(b) Any rights or liabilities existing on the effective date of this 
Act shall not be affected by the enactment of this Act. Any proce-
dures or rules or regulations in effect on the effective date of this Act 
shall remain in effect until modified or superseded under the authority 
of this Act. Any reference in any other law or rule or regulation 
prescribed pursuant to law to the 'International Convention for the 
Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954,' shall be deemed 
^^ UST 2989. 
to be a reference to that Convention as revised hj the 'Amendments 
of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of 
the Sea by Oil, 1954,' which were adopted by a Conference of Con-
tracting Governments convened at London on April 11, 1962. Any 
reference in any other law or rule or regulation prescribed pursuant 
to law to the MOil Pollution Act, 1961,' approved August 30, 1961 
(33 U.S.C. 1001-1015), shall be deemed to be a reference to that Act ^s stat. 402. 
as amended by this Act." 
Approved September 1, 1966. 
Public Law 89-552 
AN A C T 
September 2, 19 66 
To amend the Organic Act of Guam in order to authorize the legislature thereof 
[H. R. 13298] 
to provide by law for the election of its members from election districts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhlea^ That section 10 of Guam. 
the Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1423), is amended to read as redrstrfctlng." 
f o l l o w s : 
64 Stat. 387. 
"SEC. 10. (a) The legislative power and authority of Guam shall 
be vested in a legislature, consisting of a single house, to be designated 
the 'Legislature of Guam', herein referred to as the legislature. 
"(b) The legislature shall be composed of not to exceed twenty-one 
members, to be known as senators, elected at large, or elected from leg-
islative districts, or elected in part at large and in part from legislative 
districts, as the laws of Guam may direct: Provided^ That any district-
ing and any apportionment pursuant to this authorization and pro-
vided for by the laws of Guam shall not deny to any person in Guam 
the equal protection of the laws: And provmed further^ That in any 
elections to the legislature, every elector shall be permitted to vote for