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title: "33 U.S.C. § 585"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 585 - Reserve component training at water resources development projects

## Text

(a) In general In carrying out military training activities or otherwise fulfilling military training requirements, units or members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces may perform services and furnish supplies in support of a water resources development project or program of the Corps of Engineers without reimbursement.

(b) Exception This section shall not apply to any member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who is employed by the Corps of Engineers on a full-time basis.

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. H, title LXXXI, § 8124, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3715.)