---
kind: "unit"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
key: "ch40"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 40"
heading: "Oil Pollution"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/ch40"
sections_count: 34
---

# Chapter 40 — Oil Pollution

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation](/usc/33/ch40-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Prince William Sound Provisions](/usc/33/ch40-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Miscellaneous](/usc/33/ch40-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Oil Pollution Research and Development Program](/usc/33/ch40-schIV.md)