[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR4.66a]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 4--VESSELS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 4.66a  Illegal discharge of oil and hazardous substances.

    If a port director receives a request from an officer of the U.S. 
Coast Guard to withhold clearance of a vessel whose owner or operator is 
subject to a civil penalty for discharging oil or a hazardous substance 
into or upon the navigable waters of the United States, adjoining 
shorelines, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone in 
quantities determined to be harmful by appropriate authorities, such 
clearance shall not be granted until the port director is informed that 
a bond or other surety satisfactory to the Coast Guard has been filed.

[T.D. 82-28, 47 FR 5226, Feb. 4, 1982]