---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2313b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2313b"
heading: "Support of Army civil works program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2313b"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2313b. Support of Army civil works program

- (a) **General authority—** In carrying out research and development in support of the civil works program of the Department of the Army, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may utilize contracts, cooperative research and development agreements, cooperative agreements, and grants with non-Federal entities, including State and local governments, colleges and universities, consortia, professional and technical societies, public and private scientific and technical foundations, research institutions, educational organizations, and nonprofit organizations.
- (b) **Commercial application—** With respect to contracts for research and development, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may include requirements that have potential commercial application and may use such potential application as an evaluation factor where appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 229, Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3703.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, 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. 104–303, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.