---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2331a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2331a"
heading: "Initiating work on separable elements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2331a"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2331a. Initiating work on separable elements


With respect to a water resources development project that has received construction funds in the previous 6-year period, for purposes of initiating work on a [separable element](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=3) of the project—

- (1) no new start or new investment decision shall be required; and
- (2) the work shall be treated as ongoing work.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–322, title I, § 1146, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1659.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016, and also as part of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, also known as the WIIN Act, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.