Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§1516 Judicial Review; Persons Aggrieved; Jurisdiction of Courts of Appeal

Title 33 › Chapter 29— DEEPWATER PORTS › § 1516

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Anyone harmed by the Secretary’s decision to issue, transfer, modify, renew, suspend, or revoke a license can ask a U.S. Court of Appeals to review that decision. The request must be filed within 60 days in the Court of Appeals for the circuit where the nearest adjacent coastal State is located. You are considered "aggrieved" and may seek review only if you took part in the Secretary’s administrative proceedings — or can show you did not because the Secretary failed to give the required notice — and you are adversely affected by the decision.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1516

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Any person suffering legal wrong, or who is adversely affected or aggrieved by the Secretary’s decision to issue, transfer, modify, renew, suspend, or revoke a license may, not later than 60 days after any such decision is made, seek judicial review of such decision in the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit within which the nearest adjacent coastal State is located. A person shall be deemed to be aggrieved by the Secretary’s decision within the meaning of this chapter if he—

(A)has participated in the administrative proceedings before the Secretary (or if he did not so participate, he can show that his failure to do so was caused by the Secretary’s failure to provide the required notice); and

(B)is adversely affected by the Secretary’s action.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1516

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60