Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally
§ 467c. Determination of danger to human life and property
Statutory text
For the purpose of determining whether a dam (including the waters impounded by such dam) constitutes a danger to human life or property, the Secretary shall take into consideration the possibility that the dam might be endangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion, sediment, cracking, earth movement, earthquakes, failure of bulkheads, flashboard, gates on conduits, or other conditions which exist or which might occur in any area in the vicinity of the dam.
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. 92–367 § 5 · 86 Stat. 506
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 467c
Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. The Secretary shall report, to the Congress on or before Report to Congress. July 1, 1974, on his activities under the Act, which report shall include, but not be limited to— (1) an inventory of all dams located in the United States; (2) a review of each inspection made, the recommendations furnished to the Governor of the State in which such dam is located and information as to the implementation of such recommendation: (3) recommendations for a comprehensive national program for the inspection, and regulation for safety purpose of dams of the Nation, and the respective responsibilities which should be assumed by Federal, State, and local governments and by public and private interests.Water Resources Development Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–303 title II § 215(c)(3) · 110 Stat. 3658
Inserted · 33 U.S.C. § 467c
Pub. L. 104–303 inserted section catchline
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–303 inserted section catchline.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(3) by redesignating sections 2, 3, and 4 as sections 3, 4, and 5, respectively;
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 5 of Pub. L. 92–367 was classified to section 467d of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–303.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–303 inserted section catchline.
Credits
1972–1996 · 2 acts
- 1972Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, , 86 Stat. 507
- 1996renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), , 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, , 86 Stat. 507; renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), , 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.)