---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 4264"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "4264"
heading: "Enhancing international outreach and partnership of United States agencies involved in marine debris activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/4264"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Save Our Seas 2.0"
  - "Subchapter II — Enhanced Global Engagement to Combat Marine Debris"
---

# §4264. Enhancing international outreach and partnership of United States agencies involved in marine debris activities

- (a) **Findings—** Congress recognizes the success of the [marine debris](/usc/33/4201.md?p=5) program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Trash-Free Waters program of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- (b) **Authorization of efforts to build foreign partnerships—** The [Under Secretary](/usc/33/4201.md?p=10) and the [EPA Administrator](/usc/33/4201.md?p=2) shall work with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to build partnerships, as appropriate, with the governments of foreign countries and to support international efforts to combat [marine debris](/usc/33/4201.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–224, title II, § 204, Dec. 18, 2020, 134 Stat. 1091.)