---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 635"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "635"
heading: "Coast Guard anchorages"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/635"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter V — Prosecution of Work Generally"
---

# §635. Coast Guard anchorages


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may perform dredging at Federal expense within and adjacent to anchorages established by the Coast Guard pursuant to existing authorities.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 106, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2623.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of div. AA of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.