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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 546a. Information as to configuration of shore line

Statutory text

Every report submitted to Congress in pursuance of any provision of law for preliminary examination and survey looking to the improvement of the entrance at the mouth of any river or at any inlet, in addition to other information which the Congress has directed shall be given, shall contain information concerning the configuration of the shore line and the probable effect thereon that may be expected to result from the improvement having particular reference to erosion and/or accretion for a distance of not less than ten miles on either side of the said entrance.

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. 74–831 § 5 · 49 Stat. 1028

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 546a

    (Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 5, 49 Stat. 1048.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 5, 49 Stat. 1048.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec.5. Every report submitted to Congress in pursuance of any provision of law for preliminary examination and survey looking to the improvement of the entrance at the mouth of any river or at any inlet, in addition to other information which the Congress has directed shall be given, shall contain information concerning the configuration of the shore line and the probable effect thereon that may be expected to result from the improvement having particular reference to erosion and/or accretion for a distance of not less than ten miles on either side of the said entrance.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 5, 49 Stat. 1048.)

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