12 1 (3) Where a license or permit to conduct an activity 2 has been granted under the authority of subsections (c) (1) 3 and (c) (2) of this section and of the Rivers and Har4 bors Act of 1899, no separate permit to conduct such ac5 tivity shall be required under this Act. 10 6 (d) Prior to issuing any permit under this Act, where 7 it appears to the Administrator that the disposition of the 8 material to be transported for dumping or to be dumped may 9 affect navigation in the navigable waters of the United States or may create an artificial island on the Outer Continental 11 Shelf, the Administrator shall consult with the Secretary of 12 the Army and no permit shall be issued if the Secretary of 13 the Army determines that navigation will be unreasonably impaired. 14 15 (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preempt16 ing any State, Federal territory or commonwealth, or subdivision thereof from imposing any requirement of liability. ENFORCEMENT SEC. 8. (a) The Administrator may, whenever appropriate, utilize by agreement, the personnel, services, and facilities of other Federal departments, agencies, and instru mentalities, or State agencies or instrumentalities, whether on a reimbursable or a nonreimbursable basis. 13 1 (b) The Administrator may delegate responsibility and 2 authority for reviewing and evaluating permit applications, 5 3 including the decision as to whether a permit will be issued, 4 to an officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, or he may delegate, by agreement, such responsibility and author6 ity to the heads of other Federal departments or agencies, 7 whether on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis. 8 (c) The Secretary of the department in which the 9 Coast Guard is operating shall conduct surveillance and 10 other appropriate enforcement activity to prevent unlawful transportation of material for dumping or dumping. 11 ity REGULATIONS SEC. 9. In carrying out the responsibilities and authorconferred by this Act, the Administrator is authorized to issue such regulations as he may deem appropriate. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION SEC. 10. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Administrator, shall seek effective international action and cooperation to ensure protection of the marine environment, and may for this purpose, formulate, present, or support specific proposals in the United Nations and other com petent international organizations for the development of appropriate international rules and regulations in support of the policy of this Act. 1 2 14 REPEAL AND SUPERSESSION SEC. 11. (a) The second proviso to the last paragraph 3 of section 20 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1154), 4 as amended (33 U.S.C. 418), is repealed. 5 (b) Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Act of 6 June 29, 1888 (25 Stat. 209), as amended (33 U.S.C. 7 441-451b), are repealed. 8 (c) Section 2 of the Act of August 5, 1886 (24 Stat. 9 329; 33 U.S.C. 407a), is repealed. 10 (d) To the extent that it authorizes action regulated by 11 this Act, section 4 of the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 12 1147; 33 U.S.C. 419), is superseded. 13 14 15 16 (e) Section 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (30 Stat. 1152), as amended (33 U.S.C. 407), is super seded insofar as it applies to dumping, as defined in subsec tion 3 (f) of this Act, of material in the waters covered by 17 subsection 4 (b) of this Act. EFFECTIVE DATE AND SAVINGS PROVISION SEC. 12. (a) This Act shall take effect six months after its enactment. (b) No legal action begun, or right of action accrued, prior to the effective date of this Act shall be affected by any provision of this Act. 1 15 AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS 2 SEC. 13. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, 3 out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro 4 priated, such sums as may be necessary for the purposes and 5 administration of this Act. [H.R. 4359, H.R. 4360, H.R. 4361, 92d Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Act of August 3, 1968 (82 Stat. 625), to protect the ecology of estuarine areas by regulating dumping of waste materials, to authorize the establishment of a system of marine sanctuaries, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That section 1 of the Act of August 3, 1968 (82 Stat. 625), 4 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 5 "Congress further finds and declares that many estu6 aries of the Nation are being subjected to severe ecological 7 degradation through the unregulated dumping into the oceans and into the coastal waters of the United States of 8 9 polluted dredge spoils, industrial wastes, sewage, and refuse I-O |