---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1475"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1475"
heading: "Consultation procedure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1475"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention"
---

# §1475. Consultation procedure


Before taking any measure under [section 1474 of this title](/usc/33/1474.md), the [Secretary](/usc/33/1471.md?p=4) shall—

- (1) consult, through the Secretary of State, with other countries affected by the marine casualty, and particularly with the flag country of any [ship](/usc/33/1471.md?p=5) involved;
- (2) notify without delay the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and any other persons known to the [Secretary](/usc/33/1471.md?p=4), or of whom he later becomes aware, who have interests which can reasonably be expected to be affected by any proposed measures; and
- (3) consider any views submitted in response to the consultation or notification required by subsections [(1)](#1) and [(2)](#2) of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 6, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9.)