[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR221.1]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 221_APPLICATIONS FOR OCEAN DUMPING PERMITS UNDER SECTION 102 OF THE 

ACT--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  221.1  Applications for permits.









Sec.

221.1 Applications for permits.

221.2 Other information.

221.3 Applicant.

221.4 Adequacy of information in application.

221.5 Processing fees.



    Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1412 and 1418.



    Source: 42 FR 2470, Jan. 11, 1977, unless otherwise noted.





    Applications for general, special, emergency, interim and research 

permits under section 102 of the Act may be filed with the Administrator 

or the appropriate Regional Administrator, as the case may be, 

authorized by Sec.  220.4 to act on the application. Applications shall 

be made in writing and shall contain, in addition to any other material 

which may be required, the following:

    (a) Name and address of applicant;



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    (b) Name of the person or firm transporting the material for 

dumping, the name of the person(s) or firm(s) producing or processing 

all materials to be transported for dumping, and the name or other 

identification, and usual location, of the conveyance to be used in the 

transportation and dumping of the material to be dumped, including 

information on the transporting vessel's communications and navigation 

equipment;

    (c) Adequate physical and chemical description of material to be 

dumped, including results of tests necessary to apply the Criteria, and 

the number, size, and physical configuration of any containers to be 

dumped;

    (d) Quantity of material to be dumped;

    (e) Proposed dates and times of disposal;

    (f) Proposed dump site, and in the event such proposed dump site is 

not a dump site designated in this subchapter H, detailed physical, 

chemical and biological information relating to the proposed dump site 

and sufficient to support its designation as a site according to the 

procedures of part 228 of this subchapter H;

    (g) Proposed method of releasing the material at the dump site and 

means by which the disposal rate can be controlled and modified as 

required;

    (h) Identification of the specific process or activity giving rise 

to the production of the material;

    (i) Description of the manner in which the type of material proposed 

to be dumped has been previously disposed of by or on behalf of the 

person(s) or firm(s) producing such material;

    (j) A statement of the need for the proposed dumping and an 

evaluation of short and long term alternative means of disposal, 

treatment or recycle of the material. Means of disposal shall include 

without limitation, landfill, well injection, incineration, spread of 

material over open ground; biological, chemical or physical treatment; 

recovery and recycle of material within the plant or at other plants 

which may use the material, and storage. The statement shall also 

include an analysis of the availability and environmental impact of such 

alternatives; and

    (k) An assessment of the anticipated environmental impact of the 

proposed dumping, including without limitation, the relative duration of 

the effect of the proposed dumping on the marine environment, 

navigation, living and non-living marine resource exploitation, 

scientific study, recreation and other uses of the ocean.