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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission

§ 684. Cooperation by commission with State authorities

Statutory text

For the purpose of securing harmony of action and economy in expenditures in the work to be done by the United States and the State of California, respectively, the former in its plans for the improvement and protection of the navigable streams and to prevent the depositing of mining debris or other materials within the same, and the latter in its plans authorized by law for the reclamation, drainage, and protection of its lands, or relating to the working of hydraulic mines, the said commission is empowered to consult thereon with a commission of engineers of said State, if authorized by said State for said purpose, the result of such conference to be reported to the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and if by him approved shall be followed by said commission.

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. 52–183 § 24 · 27 Stat. 507

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 684

    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 24, 27 Stat. 511.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 24, 27 Stat. 511.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 24. That for the purpose of securing harmony of action and Commission may consult with State commission of engineers. economy in expenditures in the work to be done by the United States and the State of California, respectively, the former in its plans for the improvement and protection of the navigable streams and to prevent the depositing of mining debris or other materials within the same, and the latter in its plans authorized by law for the reclamation, drainage, and protection of its lands, or relating to the working of hydraulic mines, the said commission is empowered to consult thereon with a commission of engineers of said State, if authorized by said State for said purpose, the result of such conference to be reported to the Report on conference. Approval. Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and if by him approved shall be followed by said commission.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, , 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.

Credits

(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 24, 27 Stat. 511.)

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