---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2240"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2240"
heading: "Emergency response services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2240"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter II — Harbor Development"
---

# §2240. Emergency response services

- (a) **Grants—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) is authorized to make grants to any [non-Federal interest](/usc/33/2241.md?p=7) operating a project for a [harbor](/usc/33/2241.md?p=4) for provision of emergency response services in such [harbor](/usc/33/2241.md?p=4) (including contingency planning, necessary personnel training, and the procurement of equipment and facilities either by the [non-Federal interest](/usc/33/2241.md?p=7), 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](/usc/33/2241.md?p=7), 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–662, title II, § 212, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4107.)