---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 572"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "572"
heading: "Collection and removal of drift in Baltimore Harbor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/572"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §572. Collection and removal of drift in Baltimore Harbor


On and after July 30, 1948, direct allotments from appropriations for the maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works, or from other available appropriations, may be made by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) of the Army for the collection and removal of drift in Baltimore Harbor and its tributary waters, and this work shall be carried out as a separate and distinct project.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 771, title I, § 102, 62 Stat. 1173.)