---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2326j"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2326j"
heading: "Transfer of suitable dredged material"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2326j"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2326j. Transfer of suitable dredged material

- (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) is authorized to make available to a non-Federal interest, at no additional cost, dredged material that the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) has determined is in excess of the amounts identified as needed for use by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2).
- (2) **Responsibility—** The non-Federal interest shall be responsible for all costs to remove and transport such material, and shall certify that the non-Federal interest is responsible for any and all liability related to the removal of such material or the use of such material once it is removed.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 118–272, div. A, title I, § 1130(e), Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3020.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2024, and also as part of the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024, 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 1002 of Pub. L. 118–272, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.