---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 426n"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "426n"
heading: "Technical assistance to States and local governments; cost sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/426n"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §426n. Technical assistance to States and local governments; cost sharing

- (a) Upon request of the Governor of a State, or the appropriate official of local government, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) is authorized to provide designs, plans, and specifications, and such other technical assistance as he deems advisable to such State or local government for its use in carrying out—
  - (1) projects for removing accumulated snags and other debris, and clearing and straightening channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof; and
  - (2) projects for renovating navigable streams and tributaries thereof by means of predominantly nonstructural methods judged by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) to be cost effective, for the purpose of improved drainage, water quality, and habitat diversity.
- (b) The non-Federal share of the cost of any designs, plans, specifications or technical assistance provided under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be 50 percent.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 942, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4199.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.