Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 46 — National Levee Safety Program
§ 3306. Certain levee improvements
Statutory text
In general
Notwithstanding section 211 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (31 U.S.C. 6505 note), the Secretary, at the request of a local government, is authorized to provide technical services, on a reimbursable basis, to the local government to assess the reasons a federally constructed levee owned or operated by the local government is not accredited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Federal levees
In carrying out this section, in a case in which a levee owned and operated by the Secretary is hydraulically tied to a levee described in subsection (a), the Secretary is encouraged to cooperate, to the maximum extent practicable, with the relevant local governmental entities in assessing the reasons the levee described in subsection (a) is not accredited.
Limitation
Nothing in this section—
affects the responsibilities of a local government to operate and maintain its flood control infrastructure; or
obligates the Secretary to expend additional Federal resources on levees owned and operated by the Secretary.
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.
Water Resources Development Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–270 title I § 1123 · 132 Stat. 3765
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3306
(Pub. L. 115–270, title I, § 1123, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3779.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 115–270, title I, § 1123, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3779.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1123. CERTAIN LEVEE IMPROVEMENTS. (a) In General.— Notwithstanding section 211 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (31 U.S.C. 6505 note), the Secretary, at the request of a local government, is authorized to provide technical services, on a reimbursable basis, to the local government to assess the reasons a federally constructed levee owned or operated by the local government is not accredited by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (b) Federal Levees.— In carrying out this section, in a case in which a levee owned and operated by the Secretary is hydraulically tied to a levee described in subsection (a), the Secretary is encouraged to cooperate, to the maximum extent practicable, with the relevant local governmental entities in assessing the reasons the levee described in subsection (a) is not accredited. (c) Limitation.— Nothing in this section— (1) affects the responsibilities of a local government to operate and maintain its flood control infrastructure; or (2) obligates the Secretary to expend additional Federal resources on levees owned and operated by the Secretary.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 211 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000, referred to in subsec. (a), is section 211 of Pub. L. 106–541, which is set out as a note under section 6505 of Title 31, Money and Finance.
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2018, and also as part of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, and not as part of the National Levee Safety Act of 2007 which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
“Secretary” Defined
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 102 of Pub. L. 115–270, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.