---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 151.2035"
title: "33"
number: "151.2035"
heading: "Implementation schedule for approved ballast water management methods."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/151.2035"
---

# §151.2035. Implementation schedule for approved ballast water management methods.

- (a) To discharge ballast water into waters of the United States, the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel subject to [§ 151.2025](/cfr/33/151.2025.md) of this subpart must either ensure that the ballast water meets the ballast water discharge standard as defined in [§ 151.2030(a)](/cfr/33/151.2030.md?p=a), use an AMS as described in [§ 151.2025(a)(3)](/cfr/33/151.2025.md?p=a-3) or ballast exclusively with water from a U.S. public water system, as described in [§ 151.2025(a)(2)](/cfr/33/151.2025.md?p=a-2), according to the schedule in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section.
- (b) **Implementation Schedule for the Ballast Water Management Discharge Standard for vessels using a Coast Guard approved BWMS to manage ballast water discharged to waters of the U.S.** After the dates listed in Table 151.2035(b), vessels may use a USCG-approved BWMS and comply with the discharge standard, use PWS per [§ 151.2025(a)(2)](/cfr/33/151.2025.md?p=a-2), or use a previously installed AMS per [§ 151.2025(a)(3)](/cfr/33/151.2025.md?p=a-3).

## Notes

### Amendments

[USCG-2001-10486, 77 FR 17306, Mar. 23, 2012, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44281, July 27, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 4711; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1(II)(57).

### Source

Source: USCG-2001-10486, 77 FR 17306, Mar. 23, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1902, 1903, 1908; 46 U.S.C. 6101; 46 U.S.C. 70034; Pub. L. 104-227, 110 Stat. 3034; sec. 623, Pub. L. 108-293, 118 Stat. 1063; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Amendments

[USCG-2001-10486, 77 FR 17306, Mar. 23, 2012, as amended by USCG-2015-0433, 80 FR 44281, July 27, 2015]