Chapter 276.
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CHAP. 276.— Joint Resolution Requesting the Presidentof the United States to cal] a conference of maritime nations with a view to the adoption of effective means for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters by oil-burning and oil-carrying steamers by the dumping into such waters of oil waste, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil slop, tar residue, and water ballast. July 1, 1922. [[H. J. Res. 297](/us/bill/67/hjres/297).] [[Pub. Res., No. 65](/us/bill/67/pubres/65).] Whereas the careless casting of oil refuse into the sea from oil-burningPollution of navigable waters.
Preamble. and oil-carrying steamers has become a serious menace to the maritime and the fishing industries of the United States and other countries; and Whereas the fire hazard created by the accumulation of floating oil on the piles of piers and bulkheads into harbor waters is a growing source of alarm; and Whereas most serious is the destruction of ocean fisheries resulting from the constant discharge into territorial waters of the waste products of the oil used for fuel on many steamers in place of coal, which threatens to exterminate the food fish, oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters, which are a vital part of our various national food supplies; and 822 Whereas the dumping of this oil refuse is not only ruining the bathing beaches situate on the territorial waters of the various countries, which during the summer attract hundreds of thousands of people to the seashore resorts, but the depreciation in value of millions of dollars of seashore property is most alarming; and Whereas this pollution takes place on the high seas as well as within territorial waters:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Conference of maritime nations authorized to prevent. That the President is requested to call a conference of maritime nations with a view to the adoption of effective means for the prevention of pollution of navigable waters. Approved, July 1, 1922.