---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2270"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2270"
heading: "Subsurface drain systems research and development"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2270"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter IV — Water Resources Studies"
---

# §2270. Subsurface drain systems research and development


Subject to the availability of appropriations, the [Secretary](/usc/33/2201.md), acting through the [Director](/usc/33/1122.md?p=2) of the Engineer Research and Development Center and, where appropriate, in consultation with other Federal agencies, shall carry out research and development activities relating to the use of subsurface drain [systems](/usc/33/3602.md?p=8) as—

- (1) a flood risk-reduction measure; or
- (2) a coastal storm risk-reduction measure.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title II, § 227, Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2698.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of div. AA of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.