---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2339a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2339a"
heading: "Cooperative agreements with Indian tribes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2339a"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2339a. Cooperative agreements with Indian tribes


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may enter into a cooperative agreement with an Indian tribe (or a designated representative of an Indian tribe) to carry out authorized activities of the Corps of Engineers to protect fish, wildlife, water quality, and cultural resources.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–121, title I, § 1031(b), June 10, 2014, 128 Stat. 1233.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014, 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. 113–121, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.