---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 53410"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "53410"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/53410"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part C — Financial Assistance Programs"
  - "Chapter 534 — Tanker Security Fleet"
---

# §53410. Regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) of Transportation and the [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) of Defense may each prescribe rules as necessary to carry out their respective responsibilities under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–283, div. C, title XXXV, § 3511(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4418.)