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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. 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.

  1. 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”.

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–611, title II, § 216, , 84 Stat. 1830.)

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