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{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle        = Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships
| othershorttitles  =
| longtitle         = An Act to implement the Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, and for other purposes.
| colloquialacronym = APPS 
| nickname          = Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships of 1980
| enacted by        = 96th
| effective date    = October 21, 1980
| public law url    = https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-94/pdf/STATUTE-94-Pg2297.pdf
| cite public law   = 96-478
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|94|2297}}
| acts amended    = 
| acts repealed   = {{unbulleted list|[[Earth:Oil Pollution Act of 1961|Oil Pollution Act of 1961]]|[[Earth:Oil Pollution Act of 1973|Oil Pollution Act of 1973]]}}
| title amended   = 33 U.S.C.: Navigable Waters
| sections created = {{Usc-title-chap|33|33}} § 1901 et seq.
| sections amended = 
| leghisturl      = http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d096:HR06665:@@@R
| introducedin    = House
| introducedbill  = {{USBill|96|H.R.|6665}}
| introducedby    = John M. Murphy (D-NY)
| introduceddate  = February 28, 1980
| committees      = House Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
| passedbody1     = House
| passeddate1     = August 18, 1980
| passedvote1     = Passed
| passedbody2     = Senate
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| passeddate2     = September 23, 1980
| passedvote2     = Passed
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| agreedbody3     = House
| agreeddate3     = September 30, 1980
| agreedvote3     = Agreed
| agreedbody4     = Senate
| agreeddate4     = October 1, 1980
| agreedvote4     = Agreed
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| signedpresident = Jimmy E. Carter
| signeddate      = October 21, 1980
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The '''Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships''' (APPS, 33 U.S.C. §§1905-1915) is a {{wipe|United States}} law that implements the provisions of MARPOL 73/78 and the annexes of MARPOL to which the United States is a party. The most recent U.S. action concerning MARPOL occurred in April 2006, when the U.S. Senate approved Annex VI, which regulates [[Earth:Air pollution|air pollution]] (Treaty Doc. 108–7, Exec. Rept. 109-13). Following that approval, in March 2007, the House of Representatives approved legislation to implement the standards in Annex VI (H.R. 802), through regulations to be promulgated by Environmental Protection Agency in consultation with the U.S. Coast Guard.

APPS applies to all U.S.-flagged ships anywhere in the world, and to all [[Finance:Flag of convenience|foreign-flagged]] vessels operating in navigable waters of the United States, or while at port under U.S. jurisdiction. The Coast Guard has primary responsibility to prescribe and enforce regulations necessary to implement APPS in these waters. The regulatory mechanism established in APPS to implement MARPOL is separate and distinct from the Clean Water Act and other federal [[Social:Environmental law|environmental law]]s.

The H.R. 6665 legislation was passed by the 96th U.S. Congressional session and signed by U.S. President [[Biography:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]] on October 21, 1980.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/4732203.1980.003.umich.edu/page/2378/ |title=Act to Prevent Pollution From Ships ~ Statement on Signing H.R. 6665 Into Law, October 21, 1980 |last=Carter |first=Jimmy |date=October 21, 1980 |website=Internet Archive |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Archives and Records Service |page=2378}}</ref>

==See also==
* Clean Water Act
* Merchant Marine Act of 1920
* [[Earth:Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006|Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006]]
* Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

==References==
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* This article is based on a [[Social:Public domain|public domain]] [[Social:Congressional Research Service|Congressional Research Service]] report: Copeland, Claudia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081217143715/http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/07Dec/RL32450.pdf "Cruise Ship Pollution: Background, Laws and Regulations, and Key Issues"] (Order Code RL32450). [[Social:Congressional Research Service|Congressional Research Service]] (Updated February 6, 2008).

==External links==
* [http://epw.senate.gov/atppfs.pdf The Act online]
* {{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7190 |title=Jimmy Carter: "Oil Pollution of the Oceans Message to the Congress.," March 17, 1977 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |work=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California - Santa Barbara}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7213 |title=Jimmy Carter: "Convention on Pollution From Ships Message to the Senate Transmitting the Convention.," March 22, 1977 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |work=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California - Santa Barbara}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32490 |title=Jimmy Carter: "Convention on Pollution From Ships Message to the Senate Transmitting a Protocol to the Convention. ," January 19, 1979 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |work=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California - Santa Barbara}}

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[[Category:Ocean pollution]]



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