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Sixty Meters became available to US amateurs on July 3, 2003. Beginning March 5, 2012 there have been frequency, power and mode changes.
Any US amateur radio operator holding a General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class license may only transmit USB, CW or Digital Modes on 60m with an effective radiated power (ERP) not to exceed 100 W.
Channel 5 is monitored by most DXers around the world for both SSB and CW and is the main calling frequency. Channel 4 is an alternate channel for DXing during times of channel 5 QRM. It seems that 5.357 on FT8 is where most of the activity is these days.
CW is NOT allowed on the USB frequencies and USB NOT allowed on the CW frequency. These are FCC regulations.
The chart below shows the designated frequencies that were assigned when the new channels were added effective March 2012.
Channel 1 5.330.5 USB 5.332 CW
2 5.346.5 USB 5.348 CW
3 5.357 FT8 5.358.5 CW
4 5.371.5 USB secondary 5.373 CW secondary
5 5.403.5 main USB 5.405 main CW
Since FT8 has started most activity is now on 5.357 which is most common freq worldwide but not in all countries.