---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2334"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2334"
heading: "Innovative technologies for watershed restoration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2334"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2334. Innovative technologies for watershed restoration


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall examine using, and, if appropriate, encourage the use of, innovative treatment technologies, including membrane technologies, for watershed and environmental restoration and protection projects involving water quality.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–53, title V, § 516, Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 344.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999, 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. 106–53, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.