Public Law 80–2

That section 3 of the Flood Control Act approved August 28, 1937, is amended to read as follows:

Surveys authorized.

“Sec. 3.

That, in order to further the declaration of policy and principles declared in sections 1 and 2 of the Flood Control Act approved June 22,

49 Stat. 1570.

33 U. S. C. §§ 701a, 701b.

1936, and to supplement the preliminary examinations and surveys which the Secretary of War has heretofore been, or is hereafter, authorized and directed to make of waterways with a view to the control of their floods, the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of said waterways, the costs thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for such purposes.”

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Sec. 2.

After the Secretary of Agriculture has submitted to Congress a regular or formal report made on any examination or survey, pursuant to the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, as amended and supplemented, a supplemental, additional, or review report or estimate may be made if authorized by law or by resolution of the Committee on Public Works of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Public Works of the Senate.