---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1418"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1418"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1418"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Ocean Dumping"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation"
---

# §1418. Regulations


In carrying out the responsibilities and authority conferred by this subchapter, the [Administrator](/usc/33/1402.md?p=a), the [Secretary](/usc/33/1402.md?p=h), and the [Secretary](/usc/33/1402.md?p=h) of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating are authorized to issue such regulations as they may deem appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–532, title I, § 108, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1059.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after Oct. 23, 1972, see section 110(a) of Pub. L. 92–532, set out as a note under section 1411 of this title.

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.