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[CITE: 33USC1523]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                       CHAPTER 29--DEEPWATER PORTS
 
Sec. 1523. General procedures; issuance and enforcement of 
        orders; scope of authority; evidentiary matters
        
    The Secretary or his delegate shall have the authority to issue and 
enforce orders during proceedings brought under this chapter. Such 
authority shall include the authority to issue subpenas, administer 
oaths, compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the 
production of books, papers, documents, and other evidence, to take 
depositions before any designated individual competent to administer 
oaths, and to examine witnesses.

(Pub. L. 93-627, Sec. 24, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2147.)
