---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 148.605"
title: "33"
number: "148.605"
heading: "How is the limit of liability determined?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/148.605"
---

# §148.605. How is the limit of liability determined?

- (a) The Coast Guard may lower the $350,000,000 limit of liability for deepwater ports set by [33 U.S.C. 2704(a)(4)](/usc/33/2704.md?p=a-4), pursuant to paragraph (d) of that section, particularly for natural gas deepwater ports that will store or use oil in much smaller amounts than an oil deepwater port.
- (b) Requests to adjust the limit of liability for a deepwater port must be submitted to the Commandant (CG-5P). Adjustments are established by a rulemaking with public notice and comment that may take place concurrently with the processing of the deepwater port license application.

## Notes

### Amendments

[USCG-1998-3884, 71 FR 57651, Sept. 29, 2006, as amended by USCG-2013-0397, 78 FR 39178, July 1, 2013]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1504; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1 (75).

### Source

Source: USCG-1998-3884, 71 FR 57651, Sept. 29, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[USCG-1998-3884, 71 FR 57651, Sept. 29, 2006, as amended by USCG-2013-0397, 78 FR 39178, July 1, 2013]