---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 569e"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "569e"
heading: "Use of private sector resources in surveying and mapping"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/569e"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §569e. Use of private sector resources in surveying and mapping


To the maximum extent practicable, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall make use of private sector resources in carrying out surveying and mapping activities in the Civil Works Program of the Corps of Engineers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–580, title II, § 212, Oct. 31, 1992, 106 Stat. 4831.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 3 of Pub. L. 102–580, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.