---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1482"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1482"
heading: "Consultation for nomination and nomination of experts, negotiators, etc.; proposal of amendments to list of substances other than convention oil; Presidential acceptance of amendments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1482"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention"
---

# §1482. Consultation for nomination and nomination of experts, negotiators, etc.; proposal of amendments to list of substances other than convention oil; Presidential acceptance of amendments

- (a) **Nomination of experts and proposal of amendments to list of substances—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/1471.md?p=4), in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, may nominate individuals to the list of experts provided for in article III of the [convention](/usc/33/1471.md?p=2) and article II of the [protocol](/usc/33/1471.md?p=6) and may propose amendments to the list of substances other than [convention oil](/usc/33/1471.md?p=3) in accordance with article III of the [protocol](/usc/33/1471.md?p=6).
- (b) **Consultations for designation or nomination of negotiators, etc., provided for by convention and protocol—** The Secretary of State, in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/33/1471.md?p=4), shall designate or nominate, as appropriate and necessary, the negotiators, conciliators, or arbitrators provided for by the [convention](/usc/33/1471.md?p=2) and the [protocol](/usc/33/1471.md?p=6).
- (c) **Presidential acceptance of amendments to list of substances other than convention oil in accordance with protocol—** The President may accept amendments to the list of substances other than [convention oil](/usc/33/1471.md?p=3) in accordance with article III of the [protocol](/usc/33/1471.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 13, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10; Pub. L. 95–302, § 1(5), June 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 345.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–302, § 1(5)(A), inserted provisions relating to applicability of article II of the protocol and provisions for proposal of amendments to the list of substances other than convention oil.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–302, § 1(5)(B), substituted “protocol” for “annexes thereto”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95–302, § 1(5)(C), added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 95–302, see section 2 of Pub. L. 95–302, set out as a note under section 1487 of this title.