---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1220c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1220c"
heading: "Denial of applications; finality of decision"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1220c"
units:
  - "Chapter 25B — Reefs for Marine Life Conservation"
---

# §1220c. Denial of applications; finality of decision


A decision by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) denying any application for a[^1] obsolete ship under this chapter is final.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “an”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–402, § 6, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 618; Pub. L. 98–623, title II, § 207(1), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3397.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–623 substituted “obsolete ship” for “Liberty ship”.