---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2737"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2737"
heading: "Limitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2737"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Oil Pollution"
  - "Subchapter II — Prince William Sound Provisions"
---

# §2737. Limitation


Notwithstanding any other law, [tank vessels](/usc/33/2701.md?p=34) that have spilled more than 1,000,000 gallons of [oil](/usc/33/2701.md?p=23) into the marine environment after March 22, 1989, are prohibited from operating on the [navigable waters](/usc/33/2701.md?p=21) of Prince William Sound, Alaska.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–380, title V, § 5007, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 554.)