---
kind: "unit"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
key: "ch27"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 27"
heading: "Ocean Dumping"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/ch27"
sections_count: 22
---

# Chapter 27 — Ocean Dumping

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

## Sections

- [§1401. Congressional finding, policy, and declaration of purpose](/usc/33/1401.md)
- [§1402. Definitions](/usc/33/1402.md)

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Regulation](/usc/33/ch27-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Research](/usc/33/ch27-schII.md)