---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 701q–1"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "701q–1"
heading: "Repair and restoration of embankments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/701q-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §701q–1. Repair and restoration of embankments

- (a) **In general—** At the request of a non-Federal interest, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall assess the cause of damage to, or the failure of, an embankment that is adjacent to the shoreline of a reservoir project owned and operated by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) for which such damage or failure to the embankment has adversely affected a roadway that the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) has relocated for construction of the reservoir.
- (b) **Repair and restoration activities—** If, based on the assessment carried out under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) determines that the cause of the damage to, or the failure of, the embankment is the direct result of the design or operation of the reservoir by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2), the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) is authorized to participate in the repair or restoration of such embankment.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) $10,000,000 to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title I, § 147, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2656.)

## 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.