---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1421"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1421"
heading: "Prevention of interference with other uses of the high seas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1421"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Exploration and Commercial Recovery by United States Citizens"
---

# §1421. Prevention of interference with other uses of the high seas


Each license and permit issued under this subchapter shall include such restrictions as may be necessary and appropriate to ensure that [exploration](/usc/30/1403.md?p=5) or [commercial recovery](/usc/30/1403.md?p=1) activities conducted by the [licensee](/usc/30/1403.md?p=8) or [permittee](/usc/30/1403.md?p=9) do not unreasonably interfere with the interests of other states in their exercise of the freedoms of the high seas, as recognized under general principles of international law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 111, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 571.)