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title: "33 U.S.C. § 1480"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 1480 - Notification by Secretary of State

## Text

The Secretary of State shall notify without delay foreign states concerned, the Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, and persons affected by measures taken under this chapter.

(Pub. L. 93–248, § 11, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 10.)