Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102

§426n Technical Assistance to States and Local Governments; Cost Sharing

Title 33 › CHAPTER 9 — PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER I — IN GENERAL › § 426n

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give a state or local government designs, detailed plans, technical specifications, and other technical help when a state's governor or a local official asks. This help can be for two kinds of work on navigable streams and their tributaries: removing snags and debris and clearing or straightening channels, and renovating streams mostly with nonstructural methods that the Secretary finds cost-effective to improve drainage, water quality, and habitat variety. State or local governments must pay 50 percent of the cost for those designs, plans, specifications, or technical help.

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Title 33, §426n

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(a)Upon request of the Governor of a State, or the appropriate official of local government, the Secretary is authorized to provide designs, plans, and specifications, and such other technical assistance as he deems advisable to such State or local government for its use in carrying out—

(1)projects for removing accumulated snags and other debris, and clearing and straightening channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof; and

(2)projects for renovating navigable streams and tributaries thereof by means of predominantly nonstructural methods judged by the Secretary to be cost effective, for the purpose of improved drainage, water quality, and habitat diversity.

(b)The non-Federal share of the cost of any designs, plans, specifications or technical assistance provided under subsection (a) shall be 50 percent.

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“Secretary” Defined Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 426n

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102