---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 154.420"
title: "46"
number: "154.420"
heading: "Tank design."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/154.420"
---

# §154.420. Tank design.

- (a) The structure of an integral tank must meet the deep tank scantling standards of the American Bureau of Shipping published in “Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels”, 1981.
- (b) The structure of an integral tank must be designed and shown by calculation to withstand the internal pressure determined under [§ 154.407](/cfr/46/154.407.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, as amended by CGD 77-069, 52 FR 31630, Aug. 21, 1987]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3703, 9101; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, as amended by CGD 77-069, 52 FR 31630, Aug. 21, 1987]