---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 549b"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "549b"
heading: "Inclusion of project or facility in Corps of Engineers workplan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/549b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §549b. Inclusion of project or facility in Corps of Engineers workplan

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include in the future workplan of the Corps any authorized project or facility of the Corps of Engineers—
  - (1) that the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) has studied for disposition under an existing authority, including by carrying out a disposition study under [section 549a of this title](/usc/33/549a.md); and
  - (2) for which a final report by the Director of Civil Works has been completed.
- (b) **Notification to committees—** Upon completion of a final report referred to in [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall transmit a copy of the report to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–270, title I, § 1117, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3776.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 102 of Pub. L. 115–270, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.