---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1154"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1154"
heading: "Procurement of buoy chain"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1154"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 11 — Acquisitions"
  - "Subchapter III — Procurement"
---

# §1154. Procurement of buoy chain

- (a) Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), the Coast Guard may not procure buoy chain—
  - (1) that is not manufactured in the United States; or
  - (2) substantially all of the components of which are not produced or manufactured in the United States.
- (b) The Coast Guard may procure buoy chain that is not manufactured in the United States if the Secretary determines that—
  - (1) the price of buoy chain manufactured in the United States is unreasonable; or
  - (2) emergency circumstances exist.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–324, title XI, § 1128(a), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3984, § 97; renumbered § 1154, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 108(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4208.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 97 of this title as this section.