---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2604"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2604"
heading: "Suspension, revocation, and injunctions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2604"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — Shore Protection from Municipal or Commercial Waste"
  - "Subchapter I — Shore Protection"
---

# §2604. Suspension, revocation, and injunctions

- (a) **Suspension and revocation—** After notice and opportunity for a hearing, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) of Transportation may, and at the request of the [Administrator](/usc/33/2601.md?p=1) shall, suspend or revoke a permit issued to a vessel under this chapter for a violation of this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter.
- (b) **Injunctions—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) or the [Administrator](/usc/33/2601.md?p=1) may bring a civil action to enjoin any operation in violation of this chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter in the district court of the United States for the district in which the violation occurred.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–688, title IV, § 4104, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4157.)