---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2226"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2226"
heading: "Water resources projects on Federal land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2226"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter I — Cost Sharing"
---

# §2226. Water resources projects on Federal land

- (a) **In general—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may carry out an authorized water resources development project on Federal land that is under the administrative jurisdiction of another Federal agency where the cost of the acquisition of such Federal land has been paid for by the non-Federal interest for the project.
- (b) **MOU required—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may carry out a project pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) only after the non-Federal interest has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Federal agency that includes such terms and conditions as the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) determines to be necessary.
- (c) **Applicability—** Nothing in this section alters any non-Federal cost-sharing requirements for the project.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–121, title I, § 1025, June 10, 2014, 128 Stat. 1229.)

## Notes

### 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.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of Pub. L. 113–121, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.