Image
Copyright & Fair-use Agreement
UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
Read more about our reproduction and use policy.
I agree.Information
Digital ID
Permalink
Details
Member of
More Info
Rights
Digital Provenance
Publisher
Transcription
Sec. 72.101 PHS REGULATIONS HEW-PHS-SG SUBPART D— POTABLE WATER: SOURCE AND USE § 72.101 Water for drinking and culinary purposes; general requirement. Only potable water shall be provided for drinking and culinary purposes by any operator of a conveyance engaged in interstate traffic, except as provided in fi 72,115 (b). Such water shall either "Have been obtained from watering points approved by the Surgeon General, or, if treated aboard a conveyance, shall have been subjected to treatment approved by the Surgeon General. § 72.102 Approval of watering points. (a) The Surgeon General shall approve any watering point if (1) the water supply thereat meets the standards prescribed in the Drinking Water Standards (see Subpart J of this part), and (2) the methods of and facilities for delivery 6f such water to the conveyance and the sanitary conditions surrounding such delivery prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases. (b) The Surgeon General may base his approval or disapproval of a watering point upon investigations made by representatives of State departments of health or of the health authorities of contiguous foreign nations. (c) If a watering point has not been approved, the Surgeon General may permit its temporary use under such conditions as, in his judgment, are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases. (d) Upon request of the Surgeon General, operators of conveyances shall provide information as to watering points used by them. 8 72.103 Approval of treatment aboard conveyances, (a) The treatment of water aboard conveyances shall be approved by the Surgeon General If the apparatus used is of such design and is so operated as to be capable of producing and in fact does produce, potable water. (b) The Surgeon General may base his approval or disapproval of the treatment of water upon investigations made by representatives of State departments of health or of the health authorities of contiguous foreign nations. (c) Overboard water treated on vessels shall be from areas relatively free of contamination and pollution. § 72.104 Sanitation of water boats. No vessel engaged in interstate traffic shall obtain water for drinking and cultinary purposes from any water boat unless the tanks, piping, and other appurtenances used by the water boat in the loading, transportation, and delivery of such drinking and culinary water, have been approved by the Surgeon General. § 72.105 Protection of pier water system. No vessel engaged in interstate traffic shall make a connection between its non-potable water system and any pier potable water system unless provl-rjons are made to prevent backflow from the vessel to the pier.