prohibited acts

prohibited acts Sec. 101. (a) No person shall transport from the United States any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level radioactive waste, or except as may be authorized in a permit issued under this title, and subject to regulations issued under section 108 hereof by the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, any other material for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters. (b) No person shall dump any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level’ radioactive waste, or, except as may be authorized in a permit issued under this title, any other material, transported from any location outside the United States, (1)_ into the territorial sea of the United States, or (2) into a zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States, extending to a line twelve nautical miles seaward from the base line from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, to the extent that it may affect the territorial sea or the territory of the United States. (c) No officer, employee, agent, department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States shall transport, from any location outside the United States any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level radioactive waste, or. except as may be authorized in a permit issued under tills title, any other material for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters.