---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 701h–2"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "701h–2"
heading: "No adverse effect on processes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/701h-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §701h–2. No adverse effect on processes


In implementing any provision of law that authorizes a non-Federal interest to provide, advance, or contribute funds to the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) for the development or implementation of a water resources development project (including sections [2231](/usc/33/2231.md) and [2232](/usc/33/2232.md) of this title, [section 701h of this title](/usc/33/701h.md), and [section 701h–1 of this title](/usc/33/701h–1.md)), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that the use by a non-Federal interest of such authorities does not adversely affect—

- (1) the process or timeline for development and implementation of other water resources development projects by other non-Federal entities that do not use such authorities; or
- (2) the process for including such projects in the President’s annual budget submission to Congress under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–270, title I, § 1166(b), Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3797.)

## Notes

### 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.