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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development

§ 2299. Acquisition of beach fill

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case in which the use of fill material for beach erosion and beach nourishment is authorized as a purpose of an authorized water resources project, the Secretary is authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, or otherwise from nondomestic sources and utilize such material for such purposes if such materials are not available from domestic sources for environmental or economic reasons.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 99–662 title IX § 935 · 100 Stat. 4082

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2299

    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 935, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4197.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 935, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4197.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 935. ACQUISITION OF BEACH FILL. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case in which the use of fill material for beach erosion and beach nourishment is authorized as a purpose of an authorized water resources project, the Secretary is authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, or otherwise from nondomestic sources and utilize such material for such purposes if such materials are not available from domestic sources for environmental or economic reasons.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 935, , 100 Stat. 4197.)

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