Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally
§ 549a. Review of navigation, flood control, and water supply projects
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to review the operation of projects the construction of which has been completed and which were constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the interest of navigation, flood control, water supply, and related purposes, when found advisable due 1 the significantly changed physical or economic conditions, and to report thereon to Congress with recommendations on the advisability of modifying the structures or their operation, and for improving the quality of the environment in the overall public interest.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “due to”.
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.
Flood Control Act of 1970
Pub. L. 91–611 title II § 216 · 84 Stat. 1818
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 549a
(Pub. L. 91–611, title II, § 216, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1830.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–611, title II, § 216, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1830.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 216. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to review the operation of projects the construction of which has been completed and which were constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the interest of navigation, flood control, water supply, and related purposes, when found advisable due the significantly changed physical or economic conditions, and to report thereon to Congress with recommendations on the advisability of modifying the structures or their operation, and for improving the quality of the environment in the overall public interest.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from Pub. L. 91–611, popularly known as the “Flood Control Act of 1970”.