EPA – New regulations to become mandatory from mid-March 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is establishing a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) for marine waters of the state of California for sewage discharges from all passenger vessels of 300 gross tones or greater, and for oceangoing vessels of 300 gross tons or greater with available holding tank capacity or containing sewage generated while the vessel was outside California marine waters.
California marine waters extend out to three nautical miles from the baseline. The designation comes into effect on March 28. For more information, click here.
Further information can be found in a fact sheet published by the EPA.
Source: EPA
