§ 567. Navigation and flood control improvements by Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota

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. 1917

   Pub. L. 65–49 § 5 · 40 Stat. 250

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 567

   Aug. 8, 1917, ch. 49, § 5, 40 Stat. 266

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 8, 1917, ch. 49, § 5, 40 Stat. 266

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. That Congress hereby consents that the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, or any two of them, may enter into any agreement or agreements with each other to aid in improving navigation and to prevent and control floods on boundary waters of said States and the waters tributary thereto. And said States, or any two of them, may agree with each other upon any project or projects for the purpose of making such improvements, and upon the amount of money to be contributed by each to carry Surveys, etc. out such projects. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to make a survey of any project proposed, as aforesaid, by said States, or any two of them, to determine the feasibility and practicability thereof and the expenses of carrying the same into effect and what share of such expenses should be borne by the respective States, local interests, or by the National Government. If the Secretary of War approves any such projects, he may authorize the States to make such improvements at their own expense, but under his supervision. Appropriation. That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of War to make the surveys and estimates herein contemplated.

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