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TB 55-1900-206-14
NOTE
Plastics possess material properties ranging from hard and brittle to soft and elastic.
Plastics are used for a variety of marine applications including, but not limited to:
food wrappings, products for personal hygiene, packaging (vapor proof barriers,
bottles, containers, and liners), ship construction (fiberglass and laminated structures,
siding, piping insulation, flooring, carpets, fabrics, adhesives, and electrical and
electronic components), disposable eating-utensils and cups (including styrene
products), bags, sheeting, floats, synthetic fishing nets, monofilament fishing line,
strapping bands, hardhats, and synthetic ropes and lines.
p.
"Pollution" is the condition resulting from the presence of chemical, mineral, radioactive, or biological substances that
alter the natural environment or adversely affect human health or the quality of life, biosystems, the environment,
structures and equipment, recreational opportunities, aesthetics, and/or natural beauty.
q.
"Sewage" means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain
body wastes.
r.
"Sheen" means an iridescent appearance on the surface of water.
s.
"Sludge" means an aggregate of oil or oil and other matter of any kind in any form other than dredged spoil having a
combined specific gravity equivalent to or greater than water.
t.
"Territorial Seas" means the belt of the seas measured from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the
coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters, and
extending seaward a distance of 3 miles.
NOTE
Each country has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a
limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles, measured from baselines determined in
accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
u.
"United States" means the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam,
American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
v.
"Watercraft" is a term that includes all marine equipment used by the Army.
w. "Vegetable Oil" means non-petroleum oil or fat of vegetable origin, including but not limited to oils and fats derived
from plant seeds, nuts, fruits, and kernels.
x.
"Victual Waste" means food-related waste such as food scraps.
y.
"Wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency or duration
sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for
life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include playa lakes, swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas such
as sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, prairie river overflows, mudflats, and natural ponds.
4. Policy.
a.
Federal Requirements. The Clean Water Act as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-4) states:
Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that there should be no discharges of oil or hazardous
substances into or upon the navigable waters of the United States, adjoining shorelines, or into or upon the waters of
the contiguous zone, or in connection with activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et
seq.) or the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), or which may affect natural resources belonging to,
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