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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§1511 Suspension or Termination of Licenses

Title 33 › Chapter 29— DEEPWATER PORTS › § 1511

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General, if the Secretary asks, can go to U.S. district court near the port or where the licensee lives or can be found to stop a license when a licensee breaks the rules. If the licensee knowingly keeps breaking the rules for 30 days after the Secretary sends a registered letter to the licensee’s official mailing address, the Attorney General can ask the court to cancel the license. If the Secretary finds an immediate threat to public health or safety or a serious, imminent danger to the environment, the Secretary can order the licensee to stop or change construction or operation right away until the court case above is finished.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1511

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Whenever a licensee fails to comply with any applicable provision of this chapter, or any applicable rule, regulation, restriction, or condition issued or imposed by the Secretary under the authority of this chapter, the Attorney General, at the request of the Secretary, may file an appropriate action in the United States district court nearest to the location of the proposed or actual deepwater port, as the case may be, or in the district in which the licensee resides or may be found, to—
(1)suspend the license; or
(2)if such failure is knowing and continues for a period of thirty days after the Secretary mails notification of such failure by registered letter to the licensee at his record post office address, revoke such license.
(b)If the Secretary determines that immediate suspension of the construction or operation of a deepwater port or any component thereof is necessary to protect public health or safety or to eliminate imminent and substantial danger to the environment, he shall order the licensee to cease or alter such construction or operation pending the completion of a judicial proceeding pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

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Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (a), “chapter” substituted for “title” to conform to other substitutions for “Act” and as reflecting intent of Congress manifest throughout Pub. L. 93–627 in the use of the term “Act”.

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33 U.S.C. § 1511

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60