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title: "33 U.S.C. § 2235"
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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 2235 - Construction in usable increments

## Text

Any navigation project for a harbor or inland harbor authorized by this subchapter or any other provision of law enacted before, on, or after November 17, 1986, may be constructed in usable increments.

(Pub. L. 99–662, title II, § 207, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4102.)