---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 157.304"
title: "33"
number: "157.304"
heading: "Shore-based reception facility: standards."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/157.304"
---

# §157.304. Shore-based reception facility: standards.


No shore-based reception facility may be listed to meet [§ 157.302(b)(3)](/cfr/33/157.302.md?p=b-3) unless that reception facility has:

- (a) A valid NPDES permit which allows it to process the ballast water and oil cargo residues of the vessel for which the exemption is being requested; and
- (b) The capacity to receive and store a volume of dirty ballast water equivalent to 30 percent of the deadweight, less the segregated ballast volume, of the vessel for which the exemption is being requested.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 79-126, 46 FR 3513, Jan. 15, 1981, as amended by USCG-2000-7641, 66 FR 55573, Nov. 2, 2001]

### Source

Source: CGD 79-126, 46 FR 3513, Jan. 15, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1903; 46 U.S.C. 3703, 3703a (note); Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1. Subparts G, H, and I are also issued under section 4115(b), Pub. L. 101-380, 104 Stat. 520; Pub. L. 104-55, 109 Stat. 546.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-32, 40 FR 48283, Oct. 14, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 79-126, 46 FR 3513, Jan. 15, 1981, as amended by USCG-2000-7641, 66 FR 55573, Nov. 2, 2001]