---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1485"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1485"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1485"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention"
---

# §1485. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/33/1471.md?p=4) may issue reasonable rules and regulations which he considers appropriate and necessary for the effective implementation of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 16, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10.)