---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 8017"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "8017"
heading: "Savings clause"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/8017"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — Maritime Security and Fisheries Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs to Combat Iuu Fishing and Increase Maritime Security"
---

# §8017. Savings clause


No provision of [section 8001 of this title](/usc/16/8001.md) or of this subchapter shall impose, or be interpreted to impose, any duty, responsibility, requirement, or obligation on the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, the United States Coast Guard when operating as a service in the Department of Homeland Security, or any official or component of either.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–92, div. C, title XXXV, § 3547, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2005.)