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title: "33 U.S.C. § 577a"
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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 577a - Small-boat navigation projects; charter fishing craft

## Text

The Chief of Engineers, for the purpose of determining Federal and non-Federal cost sharing, relating to proposed construction of small-boat navigation projects, shall consider charter fishing craft as commercial vessels.

(Pub. L. 91–611, title I, § 119, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1822.)