Multiple Choice
The Ocean Dumping Ban Act was passed by Congress mainly to control which of the following activities?
A) Dumping of trash in the oceans.
B) Dumping of sewage and industrial waste into ocean waters.
C) Nonpoint pollution runoff from land into the oceans.
D) Excessive dumping of bycatch by commercial fishing vessels close to the coasts.
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