---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 579f"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "579f"
heading: "Budgetary evaluation metrics and transparency; public participation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/579f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §579f. Budgetary evaluation metrics and transparency; public participation

- (a) **Omitted—**
- (b) **Budgetary evaluation metrics and transparency—** Beginning in fiscal year 2020, in the formulation of the annual budget request for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) pursuant to [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a), the President shall ensure that such budget request—
  - (1) aligns the assessment of the potential benefit-cost ratio for budgeting water resources development projects with that used by the Corps of Engineers during project plan formulation and evaluation pursuant to [section 1962d–17 of title 42](/usc/42/1962d–17.md); and
  - (2) demonstrates the transparent criteria and metrics utilized by the President in the evaluation and selection of water resources development projects included in such budget request.
- (c) **Public participation—** In the development of, or any proposed major substantive modification to, a proposed budget for water resources development projects, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2), through each District shall, not less frequently than annually—
  - (1) provide to non-Federal interests and other interested stakeholders information on the proposed budget for projects or substantive modifications to project budgets within each District’s jurisdiction;
  - (2) hold multiple public meetings to discuss the budget for projects within each District’s jurisdiction; and
  - (3) provide to non-Federal interests the opportunity to collaborate with District personnel for projects within each District’s jurisdiction—
    - (A) to support information sharing; and
    - (B) to the maximum extent practicable, to share in concept development and decisionmaking to achieve complementary or integrated solutions to problems.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–270, title I, § 1154, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3791.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 1154 of Pub. L. 115–270. Subsec. (a) of section 1154 of Pub. L. 115–270 amended section 579a of this title.

### 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.