---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 426c"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "426c"
heading: "Report by Coastal Engineering Research Center"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/426c"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §426c. Report by Coastal Engineering Research Center


The Coastal Engineering Research Center, in making its report on any cooperative investigation and studies under the provisions of [section 426 of this title](/usc/33/426.md), relating to [shore](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=4) protection work shall, in addition to any other matters upon which it may be required to report, state its opinion as to (a) the advisability of adopting the project; (b) what public interest, if any, is involved in the proposed improvement; and (c) what share of the expense, if any, should be borne by the United States.


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 334, § 3, 59 Stat. 508; Pub. L. 88–172, § 1, Nov. 7, 1963, 77 Stat. 304.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Coastal Engineering Research Center has been substituted for Beach Erosion Board pursuant to Pub. L. 88–172, § 1, providing in part for the abolition of the Beach Erosion Board, which is set out as a note under section 426 of this title. For transfer of investigatory functions of the Beach Erosion Board to the Coastal Engineering Research Center see section 426–1 of this title.