Title 33Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§2220 Rivers and harbors and other waterways projects for benefit of navigation, flood control, hurricane protection, beach erosion control, and other purposes

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - COST SHARING › § 2220

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets the Secretary of Commerce buy local debt or make loans up to 50 years to help local governments or responsible local groups pay their share of costs for rivers, harbors, flood control, hurricane protection, beach erosion control, and similar waterway projects. This applies when those projects are carried out under Army/Chief of Engineers plans and are partly or fully inside areas that qualify for help under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Congress authorized up to $10,000,000 per fiscal year for this purpose for the year ending June 30, 1966, and for each fiscal year through and including the year ending June 30, 1970.

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Title 33, §2220

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(a)In the prosecution of projects for rivers and harbors and other waterways for the benefit of navigation, the control of destructive flood waters, hurricane protection, beach erosion control, and for other purposes, authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers in accordance with plans adopted and authorized by the Congress, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress, that whenever such projects are located wholly or partially within an area which is eligible for financial assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 [42 U.S.C. 3121 et seq.], the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to purchase evidences of indebtedness and to make loans for a period not exceeding fifty years to enable responsible local interests to meet the requirements of local cooperation pertaining to contributions toward the cost of construction of such projects within such areas.
(b)There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, not to exceed $10,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for each fiscal year thereafter through and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970.

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The Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 89–136, Aug. 26, 1965, 79 Stat. 552, which is classified generally to chapter 38 (§ 3121 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3121 of Title 42 and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3142a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section was not enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.

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33 U.S.C. § 2220

Title 33Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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