---
kind: "unit"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Protection of Environment"
key: "chI/subchH/part228"
level: "part"
label: "Part 228"
heading: "Criteria for the Management of Disposal Sites for Ocean Dumping"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/chI-subchH-part228"
sections_count: 15
---

# Part 228 — Criteria for the Management of Disposal Sites for Ocean Dumping

Title 40 C.F.R. — Protection of Environment › Chapter I — Environmental Protection Agency › Subchapter H — Ocean Dumping

## Sections

- [§228.1. Applicability.](/cfr/40/228.1.md)
- [§228.2. Definitions.](/cfr/40/228.2.md)
- [§228.3. Disposal site management responsibilities.](/cfr/40/228.3.md)
- [§228.4. Procedures for designation of sites.](/cfr/40/228.4.md)
- [§228.5. General criteria for the selection of sites.](/cfr/40/228.5.md)
- [§228.6. Specific criteria for site selection.](/cfr/40/228.6.md)
- [§228.7. Regulation of disposal site use.](/cfr/40/228.7.md)
- [§228.8. Limitations on times and rates of disposal.](/cfr/40/228.8.md)
- [§228.9. Disposal site monitoring.](/cfr/40/228.9.md)
- [§228.10. Evaluating disposal impact.](/cfr/40/228.10.md)
- [§228.11. Modification in disposal site use.](/cfr/40/228.11.md)
- [§228.12. Reserved](/cfr/40/228.12.md)
- [§228.13. Guidelines for ocean disposal site baseline or trend assessment surveys under section 102 of the Act.](/cfr/40/228.13.md)
- [§228.14. Reserved](/cfr/40/228.14.md)
- [§228.15. Dumping sites designated on a final basis.](/cfr/40/228.15.md)