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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§1411 Prohibited acts

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 27— - OCEAN DUMPING › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - REGULATION › § 1411

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

You may not move goods or other things out of the United States unless you have a permit under section 1412 or 1413 and follow the rules under section 1418. That rule also covers U.S.-registered or U.S.-flag ships and planes and U.S. government bodies, which may not move things from any place without those permits and rules. You may not dump material carried from outside the United States into the U.S. territorial sea or into the adjacent zone that reaches twelve nautical miles from the baseline, if the dumping could affect U.S. territory, unless you have a permit under section 1412 and follow the rules under section 1418.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1411

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Except as may be authorized by a permit issued pursuant to section 1412 or section 1413 of this title, and subject to regulations issued pursuant to section 1418 of this title,
(1)no person shall transport from the United States, and
(2)in the case of a vessel or aircraft registered in the United States or flying the United States flag or in the case of a United States department, agency, or instrumentality, no person shall transport from any location
(b)Except as may be authorized by a permit issued pursuant to section 1412 of this title, and subject to regulations issued pursuant to section 1418 of this title, no person shall dump any material transported from a location outside the United States (1) into the territorial sea of the United States, or (2) into a zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States, extending to a line twelve nautical miles seaward from the base line from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, to the extent that it may affect the territorial sea or the territory of the United States.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1974—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–254 incorporated existing provisions in introductory text, substituting reference to permits issued under section 1412 or section 1413 of this title for prior reference to such issuance under this subchapter; incorporated existing provisions in item designated (1); added item (2); and substituted prohibition against transportation of any material for ocean dumping for former prohibition against such dumping of any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level radioactive waste, or any other material. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–254 substituted reference to permits issued under section 1412 of this title for former reference to such issuance under this subchapter, made any ocean dumping subject to

Regulations

issued under section 1418 of this title, and substituted prohibition against dumping of any material for former prohibition against dumping of any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level radioactive waste, or any other material. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–254 struck out subsec. (c) which prohibited any officer, employee, agent, department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States from transporting from any location outside the United States any radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agent or any high-level radioactive waste, or, except as may be authorized in a permit, any other material for purpose of dumping in ocean waters. See subsec. (b) of this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1974 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 93–254 effective Mar. 22, 1974, see section 2 of Pub. L. 93–254, set out in part as a note under section 1401 of this title.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 92–532, title I, § 110(a), Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1060, provided that: “This title [this subchapter] shall take effect six months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 23, 1972].”

Savings Provision

Pub. L. 92–532, title I, § 110(b), Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1060, provided that: “No legal action begun, or right of action accrued, prior to the

Effective Date

of this title [this subchapter] shall be affected by any provision of this title [this subchapter].”

Executive Documents

Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone of United States For extension of territorial sea and contiguous zone of United States, see Proc. No. 5928 and Proc. No. 7219, respectively, set out as notes under section 1331 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1411

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73