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TB 55-1900-206-14
(2) "Type II Marine Sanitation Device" means a device that, under the test conditions described in 33 CFR 159.126
and 159.126a, produces an effluent having a fecal coliform bacteria count not greater than 200 per 100 milliliters
and suspended solids not greater than 150 milligrams per liter.
(3) "Type III Marine Sanitation Device" means a device that is designed to prevent the overboard discharge of treated
or untreated sewage or any waste derived from sewage.
j.
"MARPOL 73/78" means the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified
by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, Annex I, which regulates pollution from oil and which entered into force on
October 2, 1983.
k.
"Navigable Waters" means the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas. The term includes:
(1) All waters that are currently used, were used in the past, or may be susceptible to use in interstate or foreign
commerce, including all waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide;
(2) Interstate waters, including interstate wetlands;
(3) All other waters such as intrastate lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, and
wetlands, the use, degradation, or destruction of which would affect or could affect interstate or foreign
commerce including any such waters:
(a) That are or could be used by interstate or foreign travelers for recreational or other purposes;
(b) From which fish or shellfish are or could be taken and sold in interstate or foreign commerce;
(c) That are used or could be used for industrial purposes by industries in interstate commerce;
(4) All impoundments of waters otherwise defined as navigable waters under this section;
(5) Tributaries of waters identified in paragraphs (1) through (4) above, including adjacent wetlands; and
(6) Wetlands adjacent to waters identified in paragraphs (1) through (5) above: provided, that waste treatment
systems (other than cooling ponds meeting the criteria of this paragraph) are not waters of the United States.
l.
"Oil" means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse,
vegetable oil, animal fat, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil.
m. "Oily Waste" or "Oily Mixture" means a mixture with any oil content, including bilge slops, oil residues (sludge), oily
ballast water, and washings from cargo oil tanks.
n.
"Medical Waste" means isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes,
sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes and potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, dialysis
wastes, and such additional medical items as prescribed by the Administrator of the EPA by regulation.
o.
"Plastic" means any garbage that is solid material, that contains as an essential ingredient one or more synthetic
organic high polymers, and that is formed or shaped either during the manufacture of the polymer or polymers or
during fabrication into a finished product by heat or pressure or both. ``Degradable'' plastics, which are composed of
combinations of degradable starches and are either (a) synthetically produced or (b) naturally produced but harvested
and adapted for use, are plastics under this part. Naturally produced plastics such as crab shells and other types of
shells, which appear normally in the marine environment, are not plastics under this part.
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