---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1321c"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1321c"
heading: "International efforts on enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1321c"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter III — Standards and Enforcement"
---

# §1321c. International efforts on enforcement


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall ensure that the Coast Guard pursues stronger enforcement in the International Maritime Organization of agreements related to oil [discharges](/usc/33/1362.md?p=16), including joint enforcement operations, training, and stronger compliance mechanisms.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–281, title VII, § 709, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2986.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.