Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally
§ 419a. Management practices to extend capacity and useful life of dredged material disposal areas
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall utilize and encourage the utilization of such management practices as he determines appropriate to extend the capacity and useful life of dredged material disposal areas such that the need for new dredged material disposal areas is kept to a minimum. Management practices authorized by this section shall include, but not be limited to, the construction of dikes, consolidation and dewatering of dredged material, and construction of drainage and outflow facilities.
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 1976
Pub. L. 94–587 § 148 · 90 Stat. 2917
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 419a
(Pub. L. 94–587, § 148, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2931.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 94–587, § 148, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2931.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 148. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 33 USC 419a. Engineers, shall utilize and encourage the utilization of such management practices as he determines appropriate to extend the capacity and useful life of dredged material disposal areas such that the need for new dredged material disposal areas is kept to a minimum. Management practices authorized by this section shall include, but not be limited to, the construction of dikes, consolidation and dewatering of dredged material, and construction of drainage and outflow facilities.
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