---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 56504"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "56504"
heading: "Changes in adjustments and arrangements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/56504"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Merchant Marine"
  - "Part E — Control of Merchant Marine Capabilities"
  - "Chapter 565 — Essential Vessels Affected by Neutrality Act"
---

# §56504. Changes in adjustments and arrangements


The [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) of Transportation may change an adjustment or arrangement made under this chapter as the [Secretary](/usc/46/53101.md?p=8) considers necessary to carry out this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1658.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 56504 | 46 App.:1242a(d). | June 29, 1940, ch. 442, subdiv. (d), 54 Stat. 686; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(132), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 165. |