---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 426e–3"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "426e–3"
heading: "Coastal storm damage reduction contracts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/426e-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §426e–3. Coastal storm damage reduction contracts


For any project for coastal storm damage reduction, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may seek input from a non-Federal interest for a project that may be affected by the timing of the coastal storm damage reduction activities under the project, in order to minimize, to the maximum extent practicable, any negative effects resulting from the timing of those activities.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 140, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2652.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of div. AA of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.