---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459h–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459h–8"
heading: "Authority of Department of Army or Chief of Engineers over navigation or related matters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459h-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459h–8. Authority of Department of Army or Chief of Engineers over navigation or related matters


No provision of sections [459h](/usc/16/459h.md) to [459h–10](/usc/16/459h–10.md) of this title, or of any other Act made applicable thereby, shall be construed to affect, supersede, or modify any authority of the Department of the Army or the Chief of Engineers, with respect to navigation or related matters except as specifically provided in [section 459h–5 of this title](/usc/16/459h–5.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–660, § 9, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1969.)