# Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation, agency is U.S. Coast Guard; statutory authority is 33 U.S.C. 2716a(a); maximum penalty is 59,114, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** U.S. Coast Guard _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 33 U.S.C. 2716a(a) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 59,114 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/33/2716a> 33 U.S.C. 2716a(a) | Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation | 59,114.

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-33/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-27/section-27.3

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
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