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COMPLIANCE INITIATIVES 



The Coast Guard has taken a number of initiatives to 

 encourage compliance with the pollution discharge regulations, 

 both nationally and worldwide. 



We have implemented regulations that require certain U.S. 

 vessels to post Annex V placards detailing garbage discharge 

 restrictions, and to develop and follow shipboard waste 

 management plans that outline procedures for handling waste 

 properly . 



We are making progress in the development of regulations 

 requiring manned U.S. vessels 40 feet or more in length engaged 

 in commerce, to maintain records of refuse discharge, a 

 requirement established under the Marine Plastic Pollution 

 Research and Control Act. A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) 

 is scheduled for publication in the near future. 



The recordkeeping requirements in an earlier ( 1989 ) NPRM were 

 submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (0MB) for review 

 under the Paperwork Reduction Act. 0MB did not approve the 

 requirements on the grounds that the Coast Guard had not 

 adequately justified the specific recordkeeping requirements 

 contained in that proposal. The Coast Guard has revised its 

 original proposal by deleting the requirement that entries be 

 made in a standard "Refuse Record Book," which was to be 

 forwarded to Coast Guard Headquarters for periodic review. 

 Rather, the new proposal requires that specific information about 

 refuse disposal practices be recorded without prescribing the 



