scope:

PURPOSE.

This manual is published to promulgate Coast Guard environmental policies and procedures applicable to all waterborne assets, thereby implementing for Coast Guard surface assets, the policy described in the Commandant's Environmental Stewardship Commitment dated 2 March 2007. It is intended to meet the requirement of 33 U.S.C. 1902(g) Noncommercial shipping standards, which states "The heads of Federal departments and agencies shall prescribe standards applicable to ships excluded from this chapter by subsection (b)(1) of this section and for which they are responsible. Standards prescribed under this subsection shall ensure, so far as is reasonable and practicable without impairing the operations or operational capabilities of such ships, that such ships act in a manner consistent with the MARPOL Protocol."