---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 577a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "577a"
heading: "Small-boat navigation projects; charter fishing craft"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/577a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §577a. Small-boat navigation projects; charter fishing craft


The Chief of Engineers, for the purpose of determining Federal and non-Federal cost sharing, relating to proposed construction of small-boat navigation projects, shall consider charter fishing craft as commercial vessels.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–611, title I, § 119, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1822.)