---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 426h–1"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "426h–1"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/426h-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §426h–1. Definitions


In sections [426e](/usc/33/426e.md) and [426f](/usc/33/426f.md) to 426h–1 of this title, the following definitions apply:

- (1) **Erosion control program—** The term “erosion control program” means the national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program established under this section.
- (2) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Army.
- (3) **Separable element—** The term “separable element” has the meaning provided by [section 2213(f) of this title](/usc/33/2213.md?p=f).
- (4) **Shore—** The term “shore” includes each shoreline of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and lakes, estuaries, and bays directly connected therewith.
- (5) **Shore protection project—** The term “shore protection project” includes a project for beach nourishment, including the replacement of sand.

## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 960, § 6, as added Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 227(e)(1), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3702.)