[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR227.4]

[Page 206]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 227--CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF PERMIT APPLICATIONS FOR OCEAN 
DUMPING OF MATERIALS--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart B--Environmental Impact
 
Sec. 227.4  Criteria for evaluating environmental impact.


    This subpart B sets specific environmental impact prohibitions, 
limits, and conditions for the dumping of materials into ocean waters. 
If the applicable prohibitions, limits, and conditions are satisfied, it 
is the determination of EPA that the proposed disposal will not unduly 
degrade or endanger the marine environment and that the disposal will 
present:
    (a) No unacceptable adverse effects on human health and no 
significant damage to the resources of the marine environment;
    (b) No unacceptable adverse effect on the marine ecosystem;
    (c) No unacceptable adverse persistent or permanent effects due to 
the dumping of the particular volumes or concentrations of these 
materials; and
    (d) No unacceptable adverse effect on the ocean for other uses as a 
result of direct environmental impact.