Oil Spill Off Nantucket, Massachusetts: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ... December 22, 1976 |
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Page 245 - Nautical Publications All ships shall carry adequate and up-to-date charts, sailing directions, lists of lights, notices to mariners, tide tables and all other nautical publications necessary for the intended voyage.
Page 149 - ... control vessel traffic in areas which he determines to be especially hazardous, or under conditions of reduced visibility, adverse weather, vessel congestion, or other hazardous circumstances...
Page 149 - Establish, operate, and maintain vessel traffic services and systems for ports, harbors, and other waters subject to congested vessel traffic...
Page 135 - the biggest oil spill disaster on the American coast in our history...
Page 18 - ... Mr. JOHNSON. I think I have covered about everything. There is no use of my putting on the record the general statement of the general conditions. You know them, of course. The CHAIRMAN. Yes. Mr. JOHNSON. As I said, Senator, I was extremely well pleased with your address, and, in closing, the only thing I would like to add is that I would like to see nothing done or recommended in the slightest to curtail the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission ; but I should like very much to have you...
Page 149 - ... (C) establishing vessel size, speed, draft limitations and vessel operating conditions; and (D) restricting operation, in any hazardous area or under hazardous conditions, to vessels which have particular operating characteristics or capabilities which he considers necessary for safe operation under the circumstances...
Page 149 - Secretary may take such action as is necessary to — (1) prevent damage to, or the destruction of, any bridge or other structure on or in the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 149 - To prevent damage to, or destruction of, any bridge or other structure on or in the the navigable waters of the United States, or any land structure or shore area immediately adjacent to those waters, and to protect the navigable waters and the resources therein from...
Page 138 - Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it — a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
Page 247 - Each loaded tank vessel shall have on board a bill of lading, manifest, or shipping document giving the name of the consignee and the location of the delivery point, the kind, grades, and approximate quantity of each kind and grade of cargo, and for whose account the cargo is being handled.