---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2285"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2285"
heading: "Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2285"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2285. Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund


There is established an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated to such fund $35,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986. Amounts in the fund[^1] shall be available for undertaking, in advance of construction of any water resources project authorized to be constructed by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2), such measures authorized as part of such project, including the acquisition of lands and interests therein, as may be necessary to ensure that project-induced losses to fish and wildlife production and habitat will be mitigated. The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall reimburse the Fund for any amounts expended under this section for a water resources project from the first appropriations made for construction, including planning and designing, of such project.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 908, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4188.)