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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§426o–2 Great Lakes navigation and protection

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - IN GENERAL › § 426o–2

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must speed up operation and upkeep of Great Lakes navigation, including dredging, using available funds so commercial ships can use channels at the approved depths. The Director of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service must run an emergency pilot project, using available funds and working with the Secretary, the EPA Administrator, the Coast Guard Commandant, and the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to stop the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in the Great Lakes. Great Lakes and Connecting Channels means Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, the waters between them used for commercial navigation, federal navigation works there, and parts of the Saint Lawrence River the federal government operates for shipping.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §426o–2

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Using available funds, the Secretary shall expedite the operation and maintenance, including dredging, of the navigation features of the Great Lakes and Connecting Channels for the purpose of supporting commercial navigation to authorized project depths.
(b)Using available funds, the Director of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, in coordination with the Secretary, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall carry out a pilot project, on an emergency basis, to control and prevent further spreading of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in the Great Lakes and Connecting Channels.
(c)In this section, the term “Great Lakes and Connecting Channels” includes Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, all connecting waters between and among such lakes used for commercial navigation, any navigation features in such lakes or waters that are a Federal operation or maintenance responsibility, and areas of the Saint Lawrence River that are operated or maintained by the Federal Government for commercial navigation.

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Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

“Secretary” Defined Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of Pub. L. 110–114, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 426o–2

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73