{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s9161","title_num":"42","num":"§ 9161.","heading":"Law of the Sea Treaty","status":null,"guid":"id7970a0a9-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 96–320, title IV, § 401, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 998.)","seq_in_title":5795,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch99/schIV","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42","level":"title","num":"Title 42—","heading":"THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch99","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 99—","heading":"OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch99/schIV","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER IV—","heading":"MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id8ee31265-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s9161\"><num value=\"9161\">§ 9161.</num><heading> Law of the Sea Treaty</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">If the United States ratifies a treaty, which includes provisions with respect to jurisdiction over ocean thermal energy conversion activities, resulting from any United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of State, shall promulgate any amendment to the regulations promulgated under this chapter which is necessary and appropriate to conform such regulations to the provisions of such treaty, in anticipation of the date when such treaty shall come into force and effect for, or otherwise be applicable to, the United States.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id8ee31266-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/96/320/tIV/s401\">Pub. L. 96–320, title IV, § 401</ref>, <date date=\"1980-08-03\">Aug. 3, 1980</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/94/998\">94 Stat. 998</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id8ee33977-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I75\" topic=\"referencesInText\" id=\"id8ee33978-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">\n<heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">References in Text</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning <ref href=\"/us/pl/96/320\">Pub. L. 96–320</ref>, <date date=\"1980-08-03\">Aug. 3, 1980</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/94/974\">94 Stat. 974</ref>, known as the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under <ref href=\"/us/usc/t42/s9101\">section 9101 of this title</ref> and Tables.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-19","currency_date":"2019-05-31","congress":116,"law_num":19,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":174,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["25","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}