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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: May 6, 2024) |
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Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters |
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Chapter I - Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security |
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SubChapter O - Pollution |
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Part 157 - Rules for the Protection of the Marine Environment Relating to Tank Vessels Carrying Oil in Bulk |
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Subpart D - Crude Oil Washing (COW) System on Tank Vessels |
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Design, Equipment, and Installation |
§ 157.132 - Cargo tanks: Hydrocarbon vapor emissions.
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§ 157.132 Cargo tanks: Hydrocarbon vapor emissions.
Each tank vessel having a COW system under § 157.10a(a)(2) or § 157.10c(b)(2) without sufficient segregated ballast tanks or dedicated clean ballast tanks to allow the vessel to depart from any port in the United States without ballasting cargo tanks must have -
(a) A means to discharge hydrocarbon vapors from each cargo tank that is ballasted to a cargo tank that is discharging crude oil; or
(b) Any other means accepted by the Commandant that prevents hydrocarbon vapor emissions when the cargo tanks are ballasted in port.
[CGD 77-058b, 45 FR 43709, June 30, 1980, as amended by CGD 82-28, 50 FR 11628, Mar. 22, 1985]