---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 701h–4"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "701h–4"
heading: "Acceptance of funds for harbor dredging"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/701h-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §701h–4. Acceptance of funds for harbor dredging


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) is authorized, in accordance with [section 701h of this title](/usc/33/701h.md), to accept and expend funds contributed by a State or other non-Federal interest—

- (1) to dredge a non-Federal harbor or channel, or a marina or berthing area located adjacent to, or accessible by, such harbor or channel; or
- (2) to provide technical assistance related to the planning and design of dredging activities described in [paragraph (1)](#1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 144, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2653.)

## 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.