A bill to deduct from gross tonnage in determining net tonnage those spaces on board vessels used for waste materials.
PL 93-524 (S.1353), enacted 12/18/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-524-DEC. 18, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
Report to 
President and 
Congress. 
Appropriations. 
(b) Such survey shall be completed within eighteen months of 
the date of enactment of this Act and a final report thereon submitted, 
not later than six months after the completion of such survey, to the 
President for transmittal to the Congress. Such report shall include 
recommendations for improving rural water supplies. 
(c) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the pro-
visions of this section $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1975; $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1976; and 
$1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 80,1977. 
BOTTLED DRINKING 
WATER 
21 u s e 348. 
21 u s e 349. 
Ante, p. 1662. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
SEC. 4. Chapter IV of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is 
amended by adding after section 409 the followhig new section: 
a 
BOTTLED DRINKING WATER STANDARDS 
"SEC. 410. Whenever the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency prescribes interim or revised national primary drink-
ing water regulations under section 1412 of the Public Health Service 
Act, the Secretary shall consult with the Administrator and within 
180 days after the promulgation of such drinking water regulations 
either promulgate amendments to regulations under this chapter appli-
cable to bottled drinking water or publish in the Federal Register his 
reasons for not making such amendments.". 
Approved December 16, 1974. 
December 18, 1974 
[S.1353] 
Public Law 93-524 
AN ACT 
To deduct from gross tonnage in determining net tonnage those spaces on board 
vessels used for waste materials. 
Vessels. 
Net tonnage 
for waste 
materials. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4153 
of the Revised Statutes (46 XJ.S.C. 77) is amended by inserting follow-
ing paragraph (d) the following new paragraph: 
"(e) Space occupied by machinery used exclusively to separate, 
clarify, purify, or process, a ship's own slop oil mixture, tank-cleaning 
residue, bilge residue, or other waste materials, including sewage 
garbage, galley wastes, or trash and space occupied by any tank, tanks, 
or collection area used exclusively for the carriage or collection of such 
slop oil mixture, tank-cleaning residue, or other waste materials, but 
not to exceed a maximum space deduction established by regulations 
hereunder. The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard 
is operating in consultation with the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, shall issue regulations to define the slop 
oil mixtures, cleaning residue, and waste materials, establish the 
maximum deductions which may be made, define the manner in which 
the spaces shall be used and marked, and as necessary otherwise to 
carry out the provisions of this paragraph." 
SEC. 2. Section 4153 of the Revised Statutes (46 XJ.S.C. 77) is 
further amended by redesignating existing paragraphs (e) through 
(i) as (f) through (j). 
Approved December 18, 1974.