[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR8.2]

[Page 152]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 8_ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES 
IN ANTARCTICA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 8.2  Applicability and effect.

    (a) This part is intended to ensure that potential environmental 
effects of nongovernmental activities undertaken in Antarctica are 
appropriately identified and considered by the operator during the 
planning process and that to the extent practicable, appropriate 
environmental safeguards which would mitigate or prevent adverse impacts 
on the Antarctic environment are identified by the operator.
    (b) The requirements set forth in this part apply to nongovernmental 
activities for which the United States is required to give advance 
notice under paragraph 5 of Article VII of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959: 
All nongovernmental expeditions to and within Antarctica organized in or 
proceeding from its territory.
    (c) This part does not apply to activities undertaken in the 
Antarctic Treaty area that are governed by the Convention on the 
Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources or the Convention for 
the Conservation of Antarctic Seals. Persons traveling to Antarctica are 
subject to the requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 16 
U.S.C. 1371 et seq.