---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3857"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3857"
heading: "Remedies not affected"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3857"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Clean Hulls"
  - "Subchapter IV — Action on Violation, Penalties, and Referrals"
---

# §3857. Remedies not affected

- (a) **In general—** Nothing in this chapter limits, denies, amends, modifies, or repeals any other remedy available to the [United States](/usc/33/3801.md?p=14).
- (b) **Relationship to State and local law—** Nothing in this chapter limits, denies, amends, modifies, or repeals any rights under existing law, of any State, territory, or possession of the [United States](/usc/33/3801.md?p=14), or any political subdivision thereof, to regulate any [antifouling system](/usc/33/3801.md?p=2). Compliance with the requirements of a State, territory, or possession of the [United States](/usc/33/3801.md?p=14), or political subdivision thereof related to antifouling paint or any other [antifouling system](/usc/33/3801.md?p=2) does not relieve any [person](/usc/33/3801.md?p=9) of the obligation to comply with this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–281, title X, § 1047, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3031.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title X of Pub. L. 111–281, Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3023, which enacted this chapter and repealed chapter 37 (§ 2401 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of title X to the Code, see Tables.