Enforcement provisions

This chapter shall be enforced by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Transportation. Such Secretaries may by agreement utilize, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, the personnel, services, equipment (including aircraft and vessels), and facilities of any other Federal agency, including all elements of the Department of Defense, and of any State agency, in the performance of such duties. Such Secretaries shall, and the head of any Federal or State agency that has entered into an agreement with either such Secretary under the preceding sentence may (if the agreement so provides), authorize officers to enforce the provisions of the Convention, this chapter, and regulations issued under this chapter. Any such agreement or contract entered into pursuant to this section shall be effective only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts. The district courts of the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any case or controversy arising under the provisions of this chapter. Authorized officers may, shoreward of the outer boundary of the exclusive economic zone, or during hot pursuit from the zone— with or without a warrant or other process— An authorized officer may in the Convention area—