---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1265"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1265"
heading: "In-place toxic pollutants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1265"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Research and Related Programs"
---

# §1265. In-place toxic pollutants


The Administrator is directed to identify the location of in-place [pollutants](/usc/33/1362.md?p=6) with emphasis on [toxic pollutants](/usc/33/1362.md?p=13) in harbors and navigable waterways and is authorized, acting through the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) of the Army, to make contracts for the removal and appropriate disposal of such materials from critical port and harbor areas. There is authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section, which sum shall be available until expended.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, § 115, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 833.)