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111TH CONGRESS REPT.111-331
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part I
CLEAN HULL ACT OF 2009
NOVEMBER 7, 2009.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. OBERSTAR, from the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3618]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 3618) to provide for implementation of
the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Foul-
ing Systems on Ships, 2001, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
H.R. 3618, the Clean Hull Act of 2009, provides for the imple-
mentation of the International Convention on the Control of Harm-
ful Anti-Fouling Systems on Ships 2001, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The fouling of a vessel's surface can produce many serious con-
sequences.' For example, fouling on a vessel's hull increases the
ship's weight and slows it progress through the water, causing the
vessel to burn additional fuel. Untreated, a deep draft tank vessel's
hull can accumulate up to 6,000 tons of fouling material in less
than six months of exposure to sea water.2 Such fouling can in-
crease a vessel's fuel consumption by up to 40 percent, causing sig-
'Biological fouling is defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as the un-
wanted accumulation of microorganisms, algae, mussels, plats, or other biological material on
structures that are immersed in water. There are more than 4,000 species of biological orga-
nisms that can foul an immersed surface.
2IMO, Anti-Fouling Systems, (2002).
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