[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: 19CFR4.66b]

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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. 4.66b  Pollution of coastal and navigable waters.

    (a) If any Customs officer has reason to believe that any refuse 
matter is being or has been deposited in navigable waters or any 
tributary of any navigable waters in violation of section 13 of the Act 
of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1152; 33 U.S.C. 407), or oil or a hazardous 
substance is being or has been discharged into or upon the navigable 
waters of the United States, adjoining shorelines, or into or upon the 
waters of the contiguous zone in violation of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251, 1321),

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he shall promptly furnish to the port director a full report of the 
incident, together with the names of witnesses and, when practicable, a 
sample of the material discharged from the vessel in question.
    (b) The port director shall forward this report immediately, without 
recommendation, to the district commander of the Coast Guard district 
concerned and a copy of such report shall be furnished to Headquarters, 
U.S. Customs Service.

[T.D. 73-18, 38 FR 1587, Jan. 16, 1973, as amended by T.D. 82-28, 47 FR 
5226, Feb. 4, 1982]