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Hazardous Substances

Responsibility Rules

Approved By FMC

The final rules which ship opera- tors must follow to establish finan- cial responsibility for the cleanup of spills of hazardous substances into United 'States waters has been approved by the Federal Maritime

Commission, it was announced by

Chairman Helen Delich Bentley.

Chairman Bentley said the dead- line for meeting financial require- ments will be the same date the

Environmental Protection Agen- cy's (EPA) list of hazardous sub- stances becomes effective. The

Commission's rules were forwarded to the Federal Register.

Under the Federal Water Pollu- tion Control Act, the 'Commission already had the authority for cer- tifying that owners of certain ves- sels operating in American waters have met the financial responsibility requirements for oil pollution clean- up. A 1972 amendment to that act extended the Commission's author- ity to include establishment of simi- lar evidence of financial responsi- bility regarding pollution by haz- ardous substances. On August 14, 1973, when the Commission pub- lished its proposed rule - making proceedings in the Federal Register,

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Many maritime interests objected to the October 18 deadline, pri- marily because the EPA has not yet published a list defining what it considers to be hazardous sub- stances, and until it does, the extent of the risk to be insured is causing confusion and concern in the ship- ping industry. Since it is estimated that the EPA might not publish its final hazardous substances list until sometime in 1974, the Federal Mari- time Commission decided that its effective date of the actual certifi- cation process should not be imple- mented until the EPA's list is final- ized and published.

Although the October 18 deadline has been postponed, the Federal

Maritime 'Commission's application and other related forms which ship- owners will be required to complete will be available in advance. "I hope the concerned carriers will take advantage of this oppor- tunity to obtain their forms during this grace period," Chairman Bent- ley said, "so they will have them completed in time to meet the dead- line and avoid a last-minute rush.

If they have them in advance of the deadline, the certification pro- cess will be expedited and will flow far more smoothly, and this will benefiit both the ship operators and the Commission."

Requirements for meeting finan- cial responsibility for pollution by oil and hazardous substances, with limited exceptions, apply to both

American-flag and foreign vessels over 300 gross tons.

The vessels affected must estab- lish financial responsibility of $100 per gross ton, or $14,000,000— whichever is lesser—to cover lia- bility for removal of oil or hazard- ous substances discharged into or upon the navigable waters of the

United States, adjoining shorelines, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone.

Chairman Bentley said that ap- proximately 21,000 vessels are cur- rently certified under the Federal

Maritime 'Commission's oil pollu- tion regulations.

Requests for the application forms may foe addressed to: Office of the Secretary, Federal Maritime

Commission, 1405 - I Street, N.W.,

Washington, D,C. 20573.

The forms will also be available at the 'Commission's field offices in

Puerto Rico, New York, New Or- leans, and San Francisco.

Greek Interests Award $76-Million Order To

Marine Industries Ltd.

A $76-million contract for the construction of six 17,000-dwt cargo vessels has been awarded to Marine

Industries Ltd., Montreal, by the

Michail A. K'arageorgis S.A. group of companies in Greece.

The ships are scheduled for de- livery by July 1976.

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