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Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization: Agreements from the International Conference on Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention, 1978: United States Note on the Results of the Conference and Plan for Regulatory Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , May 1978 , pp. 541 - 545
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1978

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* [Reproduced from the U.S. Federal Register, Vol. 43, No. 77 (April 20, 978), pp. 16886-91.

[The Conference was held in London, February 2-17, 1978. The two rotocols adopted by the Conference appear at I.L.M. pages 546 and 579. he Protocol at page 546 relates to the International onvention for the revention of Pollution from Ships, 1973} the one at page 579 relates to he International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974.

[The Resolutions of the Conference have not been reproduced. They are vailable in the Library of the American Society of International Law.]

[The Resolutions of the Conference have not been reproduced. They are vailable in the Library of the American Society of International Law.]

1. An inert gas system (IGS) i s required whenever a tanker uses crude o i l washing.

2. Between 20,000 and 40,000 DWT, the Administration of a Flag State may grant an exemption to the requirements for IGS if high capacity washing machines ( i . e . , tank washing machines having an individual throughput of greater than 60 cubic meters per hour) are not-fitted and the ship's design characteristics oak* It Impractlcablf to fit IGS.

3 Tonnage limit for IGS i s to be reduced to 20,000 DWT if tank washing machines having an individual throughput of greater than 60 cubic meters per hour are fitted.