Regulations last checked for updates: May 24, 2025

Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters last revised: May 22, 2025
§ 138.210 - Applicability.

This subpart applies to you if you are a responsible party for a vessel, a deepwater port, or an onshore facility (including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, rolling stock and onshore pipelines), unless your liability is unlimited under OPA 90 (33 U.S.C. 2704(c)).

authority: 6 U.S.C. 552(d); 33 U.S.C. 2704,2716,2716a; 42 U.S.C. 9608,9609; E.O. 12580, Sec. 7(b), 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193; E.O. 12777, Secs. 4 and 5, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351, as amended by E.O. 13286, Sec. 89, 3 CFR, 2004 Comp., p. 166, and by E.O. 13638, Sec. 1, 3 CFR, 2014 Comp., p.227; Department of Homeland Security Delegation Nos. 00170.1, Revision 01.2 and 5110, Revision 01. Section 138.40 also issued under the authority of 46 U.S.C. 2103 and 14302
source: USCG-2005-21780, 73 FR 53697, Sept. 17, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 33 CFR 138.210