Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development
§ 2311. Report to Congress covering proposals for water impoundment facilities
Statutory text
Any report that is submitted to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives by the Secretary, or the Secretary of Agriculture acting under Public Law 83–566, as amended [16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.], which proposes construction of a water impoundment facility, shall include information on the consequences of failure and geologic or design factors which could contribute to the possible failure of such facility.
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.
Dam Safety Act of 1986
Pub. L. 99–662 title XII § 1202 · 100 Stat. 4082
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2311
(Pub. L. 99–662, title XII, § 1202, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4263.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–662, title XII, § 1202, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4263.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1202. Any report that is submitted to the Committee on Reports. 33 USC 2311. Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives by the Secretary, or the Secretary of Agriculture acting under Public Law 83–566, as amended, which proposes construction of a water impoundment facility, shall include information on the consequences of failure and geologic or design factors which could contribute to the possible failure of such facility.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Public Law 83–566, as amended, referred to in text, is act Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, 68 Stat. 666, known as the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, which is classified principally to chapter 18 (§ 1001 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of Title 16 and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.