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legal/us/code/title-33/chapter-9/section-426h-1.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "33 U.S.C. § 426h–1"
+description: "Definitions"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 33
+title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
+chapter_number: "9"
+chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
+section: "426h–1"
+citation: "33 U.S.C. § 426h–1"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc33@119-100.zip"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 33 U.S.C. § 426h–1 - Definitions
+
+## Text
+
+In sections 426e and 426f to 426h–1 of this title, the following definitions apply:
+
+(1) Erosion control program The term “erosion control program” means the national shoreline erosion control development and demonstration program established under this section.
+
+(2) Secretary The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Army.
+
+(3) Separable element The term “separable element” has the meaning provided by section 2213(f) of this title.
+
+(4) Shore The term “shore” includes each shoreline of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and lakes, estuaries, and bays directly connected therewith.
+
+(5) Shore protection project The term “shore protection project” includes a project for beach nourishment, including the replacement of sand.
+
+(Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 960, § 6, as added Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 227(e)(1), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3702.)