---
kind: "unit"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
key: "ch29"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 29"
heading: "Deepwater Ports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/ch29"
sections_count: 25
---

# Chapter 29 — Deepwater Ports

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

## Sections

- [§1501. Congressional declaration of policy](/usc/33/1501.md)
- [§1502. Definitions](/usc/33/1502.md)
- [§1503. License for ownership, construction, and operation of deepwater port](/usc/33/1503.md)
- [§1504. Procedure](/usc/33/1504.md)
- [§1505. Environmental review criteria](/usc/33/1505.md)
- [§1506. Repealed.](/usc/33/1506.md)
- [§1507. Common carrier status](/usc/33/1507.md)
- [§1508. Adjacent coastal States](/usc/33/1508.md)
- [§1509. Marine environmental protection and navigational safety](/usc/33/1509.md)
- [§1510. International agreements](/usc/33/1510.md)
- [§1511. Suspension or termination of licenses](/usc/33/1511.md)
- [§1512. Recordkeeping and inspection](/usc/33/1512.md)
- [§1513. Public access to information](/usc/33/1513.md)
- [§1514. Remedies](/usc/33/1514.md)
- [§1515. Citizen civil action](/usc/33/1515.md)
- [§1516. Judicial review; persons aggrieved; jurisdiction of courts of appeal](/usc/33/1516.md)
- [§1517. Repealed.](/usc/33/1517.md)
- [§1517a. Omitted](/usc/33/1517a.md)
- [§1518. Relationship to other laws](/usc/33/1518.md)
- [§1519. Repealed.](/usc/33/1519.md)
- [§1520. Pipeline safety and operation](/usc/33/1520.md)
- [§1521. Negotiations with Canada and Mexico; report to Congress](/usc/33/1521.md)
- [§1522. Limitations on export provisions of](/usc/33/1522.md)
- [§1523. General procedures; issuance and enforcement of orders; scope of authority; evidentiary matters](/usc/33/1523.md)
- [§1524. Repealed.](/usc/33/1524.md)