---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2907"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2907"
heading: "Reporting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2907"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Estuary Restoration"
---

# §2907. Reporting

- (a) **In general—** Not later than September 30, 2008, and every 2 years thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/33/2902.md?p=9), after considering the advice and recommendations of the [Council](/usc/33/2902.md?p=1), shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of activities carried out under this chapter.
- (b) **Contents of report—** A report under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include—
  - (1) data on the number of acres of [estuary habitat](/usc/33/2902.md?p=3) restored under this chapter, including descriptions of, and partners involved with, projects selected, in progress, and completed under this chapter that comprise those acres;
  - (2) information from the database established under [section 2906(b) of this title](/usc/33/2906.md?p=b) related to ongoing monitoring of projects to ensure that short-term and long-term restoration goals are achieved;
  - (3) an estimate of the long-term success of varying restoration techniques used in carrying out [estuary habitat restoration projects](/usc/33/2902.md?p=5);
  - (4) a review of how the information described in paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) through [(3)](#b-3) has been incorporated in the selection and implementation of [estuary habitat restoration projects](/usc/33/2902.md?p=5);
  - (5) a review of efforts made to maintain an appropriate database of restoration projects carried out under this chapter; and
  - (6) a review of the measures taken to provide the information described in paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) through [(3)](#b-3) to persons with responsibility for assisting in the restoration of [estuary habitat](/usc/33/2902.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–457, title I, § 108, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1965; Pub. L. 110–114, title V, § 5017(f), Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1198.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–114 substituted “Not later than September 30, 2008, and every 2 years thereafter” for “At the end of the third and fifth fiscal years following November 7, 2000”.