---
kind: "unit"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
key: "ch26/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Research and Related Programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/ch26-schI"
sections_count: 34
---

# Subchapter I — Research and Related Programs

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters › Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control

## Sections

- [§1251. Congressional declaration of goals and policy](/usc/33/1251.md)
- [§1252. Comprehensive programs for water pollution control](/usc/33/1252.md)
- [§1252a. Reservoir projects, water storage; modification; storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality benefits in relation to total project benefits](/usc/33/1252a.md)
- [§1253. Interstate cooperation and uniform laws](/usc/33/1253.md)
- [§1254. Research, investigations, training, and information](/usc/33/1254.md)
- [§1254a. Research on effects of pollutants](/usc/33/1254a.md)
- [§1255. Grants for research and development](/usc/33/1255.md)
- [§1256. Grants for pollution control programs](/usc/33/1256.md)
- [§1257. Mine water pollution control demonstrations](/usc/33/1257.md)
- [§1257a. State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations](/usc/33/1257a.md)
- [§1258. Pollution control in the Great Lakes](/usc/33/1258.md)
- [§1259. Training grants and contracts](/usc/33/1259.md)
- [§1260. Applications; allocation](/usc/33/1260.md)
- [§1261. Scholarships](/usc/33/1261.md)
- [§1262. Definitions and authorizations](/usc/33/1262.md)
- [§1263. Alaska village demonstration projects](/usc/33/1263.md)
- [§1263a. Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages](/usc/33/1263a.md)
- [§1264. Omitted](/usc/33/1264.md)
- [§1265. In-place toxic pollutants](/usc/33/1265.md)
- [§1266. Hudson River reclamation demonstration proj­ect](/usc/33/1266.md)
- [§1267. Chesapeake Bay](/usc/33/1267.md)
- [§1268. Great Lakes](/usc/33/1268.md)
- [§1268a. Great Lakes restoration activities report](/usc/33/1268a.md)
- [§1269. Long Island Sound](/usc/33/1269.md)
- [§1270. Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program](/usc/33/1270.md)
- [§1271. Sediment survey and monitoring](/usc/33/1271.md)
- [§1271a. Research and development program](/usc/33/1271a.md)
- [§1272. Environmental dredging](/usc/33/1272.md)
- [§1273. Lake Pontchartrain Basin](/usc/33/1273.md)
- [§1274. Watershed pilot projects](/usc/33/1274.md)
- [§1275. Columbia River Basin Restoration](/usc/33/1275.md)
- [§1276. Enhanced aquifer use and recharge](/usc/33/1276.md)
- [§1276a. San Francisco Bay restoration grant program](/usc/33/1276a.md)
- [§1276b. Puget Sound](/usc/33/1276b.md)