{"data":{"id":"us/33-u.s.c.-1441","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"33 U.S.C. § 1441","heading":"Monitoring and research program","body":"The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating and with the Administrator shall, within six months of October 23, 1972, initiate a comprehensive and continuing program of monitoring and research regarding the effects of the dumping of material into ocean waters or other coastal waters where the tide ebbs and flows or into the Great Lakes or their connecting waters.","path":["Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS","CHAPTER 27—OCEAN DUMPING"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc33@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:59:09Z","sha256":"adc72e62d2ce84036c85ed2b7fddf83b5e6a4930af53b7f78dd06c1818f76a06","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/33-u.s.c.-1421","next":"us/33-u.s.c.-1442"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}