The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation are preparing new regulations necessary for the execution of the Law dated May 7, 2013 “On introduction of amendments into the Law About the Internal Sea Waters, Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone” and Water Code. According to IAA PortNews reporter, this was announced by Nadezhda Zhikhareva, deputy Director of the Department of State Policy for Marine and River Transport, at the Forum of Dredging Companies organized by media-group PortNews.
The official says major documents needed for execution of the Law should contain the list of harmful substances the presence of which in the ground forbid it from being buried in the territorial sea. Besides, the document should set forth the procedure for the use of bottom soil when building hydraulic facilities.
We remind that the above Law lifts the ban on the burial of ground in the internal sea waters and the territorial sea except for the cases when the ground contains harmful substances the list of which is to be approved.
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