---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 585"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "585"
heading: "Reserve component training at water resources development projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/585"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Pay and Allowances; Traveling Expenses and Subsistence"
---

# §585. Reserve component training at water resources development projects

- (a) **In general—** In carrying out military training activities or otherwise fulfilling military training requirements, units or members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces may perform services and furnish supplies in support of a water resources development project or program of the Corps of Engineers without reimbursement.
- (b) **Exception—** This section shall not apply to any member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who is employed by the Corps of Engineers on a full-time basis.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. H, title LXXXI, § 8124, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3715.)