[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR155.360]

[Page 378]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
    CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 155--OIL OR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL POLLUTION PREVENTION REGULATIONS FOR VESSELS--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart B--Vessel Equipment
 
Sec. 155.360  Oily Mixture (Bilge slops) discharges on oceangoing ships of 400 gross tons and above but less than 10,000 gross tons, excluding ships that carry 
          ballast water in their fuel oil tanks.

    (a) No person may operate an oceangoing ship of 400 gross tons and 
above but less than 10,000 gross tons, excluding a ship that carries 
ballast water in its fuel oil tanks, unless it is fitted with approved 
15 parts per million (ppm) oily-water separating equipment for the 
processing of oily mixtures from bilges or fuel oil tank ballast.
    (b) No person may operate a ship under this section unless it is 
fitted with a tank or tanks of adequate capacity to receive the oil 
residue that cannot be dealt with otherwise.
    (1) In new ships such tanks shall be designed and constructed to 
facilitate cleaning and the discharge of the oily residues to reception 
facilities. Existing ships shall comply with this requirement as far as 
reasonable and practicable.
    (2) Tanks used for oily mixtures on ships certificated under 46 CFR 
Chapter I shall meet the requirements of 46 CFR 56.50-50(h) for 
isolation between oil and bilge systems.
    (c) No person may operate a ship unless it is equipped with a 
pipeline to discharge oily mixtures to a reception facility.
    (d) This section does not apply to a barge that is not equipped with 
an installed bilge pumping system for discharge into the sea.
    (e) This section does not apply to a fixed or floating drilling rig 
or other platform, except as specified in Sec. 155.400(a)(2).

[CGD 75-124a, 48 FR 45715, Oct. 6, 1983, as amended by USCG-1998-3799, 
63 FR 35531, June 30, 1998; USCG-2000-7641, 66 FR 55571, Nov. 2, 2001]