---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 579"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "579"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 101–640, title I, § 119(b), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4630"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/579"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# [§579. Repealed. Pub. L. 101–640, title I, § 119(b), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4630 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 93–251, title I, § 12, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 16; H. Res. 988, Oct. 8, 1974; Pub. L. 94–587, § 157(a), Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2933; S. Res. 4, Feb. 4, 1977, provided for deauthorization of projects of improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, beach erosion, flood control, and other purposes which the Secretary of the Army determined should no longer be authorized.