---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3609"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3609"
heading: "Intent of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3609"
units:
  - "Chapter 49 — Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System"
---

# §3609. Intent of Congress


It is the intent of Congress that funding provided to agencies of the [Council](/usc/33/3602.md?p=2) to implement this chapter shall supplement, and not replace, existing sources of funding for other programs. It is the further intent of Congress that agencies of the [Council](/usc/33/3602.md?p=2) shall not enter into contracts or agreements for the development or procurement of new [Federal assets](/usc/33/3602.md?p=3) for the [System](/usc/33/3602.md?p=8) that are estimated to be in excess of $250,000,000 in life-cycle costs without first providing adequate notice to Congress and opportunity for review and comment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title XII, § 12310, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1436.)