NQAA (NCAA's Ocean Assessment Division and the National Marine Pollution 

 Program Office) ; U.S. Navy (Naval Sea Systems Command, Office of the Chief 

 of Naval Research, the Naval Ocean Systems Center, David W. Taylor Naval 

 Ship Research and Development Center and the Naval Research Laboratory) ; 

 EPA (Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, and the Office of Pesti- 

 cide Programs) ; and the National Science Foundation. The Symposium was 

 held September 28, to October 1, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 



2.3.2 U.S. State Proposed or Pending Regulatory Actions 



State legislatures have not been inclined to wait for the EPA to complete 

 its Special Review process before adopting regulations of their own. The 

 legislatures of adjacent States have also made an effort to assure unifor- 

 mity is areas such as acceptable release rates, [currently 5.0 ug/orr/d 

 is favored, except for the State of Maine which wants 3 . ug/orr/d] , 

 size limit on vessels permitted to use the paint [25 meters is favored], 

 ex empt ions for Aluminum hulls and exemptions for 16 oz. spray cans for 

 aluminum propellers and outdrives. 



Since 1985, Alaska, North Carolina, Maine, Maryland, New York, Virginia, 

 California, Oregon and Washington have passed TBT legislation. New 

 Jersey, Massachusetts, and Michigan have bills enacted or pending in their 

 legislature to regulate TBT (Table 2.2). Delaware, Texas and Wisconsin 

 have chosen to use regulations under existing statutes rather than intro- 

 duce new legislation. Fortunately, many of these state bills are quite 

 similar, because if they were not, any regulatory action specific to indi- 

 vidual states would be quite difficult to enforce and would be disruptive 

 to interstate boating commerce. On lie Pacific Coast, the Pacific 

 Fisheries Legislative Task Force has been responsible for the uniformity 

 in bills enacted in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska. 



The following sections are a summary of each States enacted or pending 

 legislation as of January 1988. 



2.3.2.1 Virginia : Passed - [Article 5, Chapter 14, Section 3.1 - 249.22 

 through 249.26]. 



o Memorializes Congress and EPA to cancel registration of TBT 

 compounds used in free association paints, and to expand EPA's 

 current review of pesticide registration of TBT used in 

 antifouling paints to include all registered TBT compounds. 



o Urges Congress and EPA to support the states in their efforts to 

 develop effective regional solutions to this issue. 



o Requests the State Water Control Board to continue to act as 

 expeditiously as possible in adopting a water quality standard 

 sufficient to protect aquatic resources of the Commonwealth from 

 toxicity and undesirable bioaccumulation from TBT compounds. 



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