Sec. 11. Effect on State authority
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Except as provided in subsection
(b)and as necessary to implement an agreement entered into under section 10, no State or political subdivision thereof may adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, or other requirement of the State or political subdivision with respect to— a discharge into navigable waters of the United States from a commercial vessel of ballast water; or a discharge incidental to the normal operation of a commercial vessel. Nothing in this Act may be construed as affecting the authority of a State or political subdivision thereof to adopt or enforce any statute, regulation, or other requirement with respect to any water or other substance discharged or emitted from a vessel in preparation for transport of the vessel by land from one body of water to another body of water.