Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§2224 Crediting Authority for Federally Authorized Navigation Projects
Title 33 › Chapter 36— WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter I— COST SHARING › § 2224
Summary
A non‑Federal interest may carry out operation and maintenance for an authorized navigation project if it follows all federal laws and regulations. It can count those costs as credit toward construction for another part of the same project or another authorized navigation project, but the credit cannot be more than 20% of the project's general navigation construction costs.
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Title 33, §2224
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A non-Federal interest may carry out operation and maintenance activities for an authorized navigation project, subject to the condition that the non-Federal interest complies with all Federal laws and regulations applicable to such operation and maintenance activities, and may receive credit for the costs incurred by the non-Federal interest in carrying out such activities towards the share of construction costs of that non-Federal interest for another element of the same project or another authorized navigation project, except that in no instance may such credit exceed 20 percent of the total costs associated with construction of the general navigation features of the project for which such credit may be applied pursuant to this section.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.
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33 U.S.C. § 2224
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60