Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development
§ 2300. Study of Corps capabilities
Statutory text
The Secretary shall study and evaluate the measures necessary to increase the capabilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to undertake the planning and construction of water resources projects on an expedited basis and to adequately comply with all requirements of law applicable to the water resources program of the Corps of Engineers. As part of such study the Secretary shall consider appropriate measures to increase reliance on the private sector in the conduct of the water resources program of the Corps of Engineers. The Secretary shall implement such measures as may be necessary to improve the capabilities referred to in the first sentence of this section, including the establishment of increased levels of personnel, changes in project planning and construction procedures designed to lessen the time required for such planning and construction, and procedures for expediting the coordination of water resources projects with Federal, State, and local agencies.
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.
Pub. L. 99–662 title IX § 936 · 100 Stat. 4082
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2300
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 936, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4197.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 936, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4197.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 936. STUDY OF CORPS CAPABILITIES. The Secretary shall study and evaluate the measures necessary State and local governments. to increase the capabilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to undertake the planning and construction of water resources projects on an expedited basis and to adequately comply with all requirements of law applicable to the water resources program of the Corps of Engineers. As part of such study the Secretary shall consider appropriate measures to increase reliance on the private sector in the conduct of the water resources program of the Corps of Engineers. The Secretary shall implement such measures as may be necessary to improve the capabilities referred to in the first sentence of this section, including the establishment of increased levels of personnel, changes in project planning and construction procedures designed to lessen the time required for such planning and construction, and procedures for expediting the coordination of water resources projects with Federal, State, and local agencies.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
GAO Review of Civil Works Program
Pub. L. 100–676, § 44, , 102 Stat. 4041, provided that the Comptroller General was to conduct a review of the Civil Works Program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and to transmit the review to Congress with any recommendations the Comptroller General may make.