OUTRIDER

The Master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel equipped with ballast tanks that operate in the waters of the United States must employ one of the authorized ballast water management methods listed in 33 CFR 151.2025(a). Vessel's ballast water management is inoperable. Vessel has been granted an extraordinary circumstance to employ the ballast water management method listed in 33 CFR 151.2025(a)(3) to conduct cargo operations while in the Sector New Orleans COTP Zone. In accordance with 33 CFR 151.2040(b)(3), the vessel must discharge only that amount of ballast water operationally necessary to ensure the safety and stability of the vessel for cargo operations.

Oil residue (sludge) may be disposed of directly from the oil residue (sludge) tank through the standard discharge connection referred to in regulation 13, or any other approved means of disposal. PSCO observed entries in ORB for evaporation of water from waste oil service tank that are not listed as a other acceptable means on the IOPP supplement. ABS class surveyor approved water evaporation operation during survey on 29SEP23 but did not reissue supplement with the evaporation as an other acceptable means. MARPOL I/12.2