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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally

§ 426n. Technical assistance to States and local governments; cost sharing

Statutory text

(a)

Upon request of the Governor of a State, or the appropriate official of local government, the Secretary is authorized to provide designs, plans, and specifications, and such other technical assistance as he deems advisable to such State or local government for its use in carrying out—

(1)

projects for removing accumulated snags and other debris, and clearing and straightening channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof; and

(2)

projects for renovating navigable streams and tributaries thereof by means of predominantly nonstructural methods judged by the Secretary to be cost effective, for the purpose of improved drainage, water quality, and habitat diversity.

(b)

The non-Federal share of the cost of any designs, plans, specifications or technical assistance provided under subsection (a) shall be 50 percent.

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 § 942 · 100 Stat. 4082

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 426n

    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 942, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4199.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 942, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4199.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 942. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. (a) Upon request of the Governor of a State, or the appropriate State and local governments. official of local government, the Secretary is authorized to provide designs, plans, and specifications, and such other technical assistance as he deems advisable to such State or local government for its use in carrying out— (1) projects for removing accumulated snags and other debris, and clearing and straightening channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof; and (2) projects for renovating navigable streams and tributaries thereof by means of predominantly nonstructural methods judged by the Secretary to be cost effective, for the purpose of improved drainage, water quality, and habitat diversity. (b) The non-Federal share of the cost of any designs, plans, specifications or technical assistance provided under subsection (a) shall be 50 percent.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

“Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 942, , 100 Stat. 4199.)

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