Update on the Implementation of the North American Emission Control Area
The North American Emission Control Area (ECA) was established in 2009 pursuant to Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), which is implemented domestically through the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS). The ECA encompasses most of the United States and Canada's coastal waters out to 200 nautical miles from the coastline, though it does not include the Pacific U.S. territories, smaller Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Aleutian Islands and Western Alaska, and the U.S. and Canadian Arctic. (View PDF to read the rest of this article)
This article by Jeanne M. Grasso, partner at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the November 2012 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.