---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1321"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1321"
heading: "Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1321"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Particular Reports and Documents"
---

# §1321. Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys


Appropriations made for the preparation or publication of foreign hydrographic surveys may be applicable only upon approval by the Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval officers that the original data for proposed charts justify their publication. The Secretary of the Navy shall order a board of three naval officers to examine and report upon the data before he approves an application of moneys to the preparation or publication of charts or hydrographic surveys.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1269.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 265 (R.S. § 3686; Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 78, 28 Stat. 621).