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REGULATION ( ) REPORTS ON INCIDENTS INVOLVING RELEASE OR 



ESCAPE OF NOXIOUS SUBSTANCES " 



REGULATION 7 — RECEPTION FACILITIES 



(1) Each Contracting Government shall take appropriate steps to ensure the 

 provision of I'eception facilities according to the needs of ships using its termi- 

 nals, ports, or repair ports : 



(a) cargo receiving and loading ports shall have facilities adequate for recep- 

 tion without imdue delay to ships of such residues and mixtures containing noxi- 

 ous substances as would remain for disposal from ships carrying them, as a con- 

 sequence of the application of this Annex ; 



(b) ship repair ports undertaking repairs to chemical taidcers shall be provided 

 with facilities adequate for the reception of residues and mixtures containing 

 noxious substances for disposal. 



(2) Each Contracting Government shall determine and notify the Organiza- 

 tion for each cargo receiving terminal and ship repair port in its territories the 

 types of facilities provided for the purpose of sub-paragraph (1) (a) and (b) of 

 this Regulation. 



(3) As regards paragi-aph (1) of this Regulation each Contracting Govern- 

 ment shall report to the -Organization for transmission to the Contracting Gov- 

 ernments concerned, all cases where facilities are alleged to be inadequate. 



REGULATION 8 — MEASURES OF CONTROL 



Each Contracting Government shall appoint or authorize Surveyors whose 

 duties shall include the inspection of ships for the purpose of implementing this 

 Regulation. 



Category A substances 



(1) (a) If a tank is partially unloaded or unloaded but not cleaned, the Master 

 shall make an appropriate entry in the Cargo Record Book ; 



(b) All subsequent cargo operations carried out in connection with that tank 

 shall also be entered in the Cargo Record Book. 



(2) If the tank is to be washed : 



(a) The effluent from the tank washing operation shall be discharged from 

 the ship to a reception facility at least until the concentration of cargo in the 

 discharge, as indicated by analyses of samples of the effluent taken by the Sur- 

 veyor, has fallen to the residual concentration specified for that substance in 

 Appendix II to this Annex. When the required residual concentration has been 

 achieved, any remaining tank washings shall be discharged to the reception 

 facility. Appropriate entries, (e.g. residual concentrations, tank washings dis- 

 charged to the reception facility, etc.) of these operations shall be made in the 

 Cargo Record Book and certified by the Surveyor ; 



(b) After diluting the residue then remaining in the tank with at least 5% 

 of the tank capacity of water, this mixture may be discharged at sea in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of Regulation .")(! ) (a), (b), ((•) and (fl) of this Annex. 

 Appropriate entries of these operations shall be made in the Cargo Record Book. 



(3) Where the Contracting Government of the receiving .state is satisfied that 

 it is impracticable to measure the concentration of the substance in the effluent 

 without causing undue delay to the .ship, that Contracting Government may ac- 

 cept an alternative procedure as being equivalent to sub-paragraph (a) above, 

 provided that : 



(a) a precleaning procedure for that tank and that substance has been de- 

 velnperl and the Contractin<i Government i ■ satisfied that such procedure will 

 fulfill the provisions of Regidation 5(1) of this Annex ; 



(b) a survevor dulv authorized by the Contracting Government shall certify 

 in the Cargo Record Book that : 



(i) the tank, its pump and piping sv.stem have been emptied, and that the 

 quantity of cargo remaining in the tank is at or below the nuantity on which 

 the approved precleaning procedure as referred to in paragraph (ii) below 

 has been based ; 



(ii) precleaning has been carried out in accordance with the precleaning pro- 

 cedure approved bv the Administration for that tank and that substance: and 



(iii) the tank wnshings resulting from such precl^nninc: have been discharged 

 to a reception facility and the tank is as empty as practicable. 



" Depondinsr on tho finnl tpxt of .Vrtlrlo 7 to ho adontod by the Conference, there might 

 be a need to inchide appropriate requirements in this Annex. 



