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Report of U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 Oceans Act of 2000, 33 U.S.C.A. §857–19 (West 2004).

2 Information on and reports of the commission may be found at <http://www.oceancommission.gov>.

3 U.S. Comm’n on Ocean Policy, Preliminary Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy—Governors’ Draft (Apr. 2004) [hereinafter Preliminary Report].

4 Id. at 359. For background, see Former Legal Advisers’ Letter on Accession to the Law of the Sea Convention, 98 AJIL 307 (1994) (including the footnote to the editors’ note); Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 98 AJIL 173 (2004)Google Scholar.

5 Nov. 2, 1973, 1340 UNTS 184. The Convention has since been modified. Annex VI was added by Protocol of 1997 to Amend the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, Sept. 26, 1997, S. Treaty Doc. No. 108–7 (2003). For background on Annex VI and its submission to the U.S. Senate, see Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 97 AJIL 979 (2003)Google Scholar.

6 Preliminary Report, supra note 3, at 191.

7 Id. at 48–49, 360–61.

8 Id. at 186 (Recommendation 16–3).