Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§2240 Emergency Response Services

Title 33 › CHAPTER 36 — WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER II — HARBOR DEVELOPMENT › § 2240

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to non-federal groups that run harbor projects to help with harbor emergency response. Grants can pay for emergency planning, staff training, and buying needed equipment or facilities. Money can go to the project operator, a local agency or municipality, or several local agencies working together, and is paid back under cooperative or mutual-aid agreements. Up to $5,000,000 was authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, and ending before October 1, 1992.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §2240

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(a)Grants

The Secretary is authorized to make grants to any non-Federal interest operating a project for a harbor for provision of emergency response services in such harbor (including contingency planning, necessary personnel training, and the procurement of equipment and facilities either by the non-Federal interest, by a local agency or municipality, or by a combination of local agencies or municipalities on a cost-reimbursable basis, either by a cooperative agreement, mutual aid plan, or mutual assistance plan entered into between one or more non-Federal interests, public agencies, or local municipalities).

(b)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, and ending before October 1, 1992, $5,000,000.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 2240

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110