§ 702b. Local contribution toward cost of flood control work

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. 1928

   Pub. L. 70–569 § 2 · 45 Stat. 534

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 702b

   (May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 2, 45 Stat. 535.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 2, 45 Stat. 535.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That it is hereby declared to be the sense of Congress that Local contribution toward cost of flood control declared a sound principle. the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood-control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national interest. As a full compliance with this principle Considerations for not requiring it for adopted project. Great expenditures heretofore made by local interests, national concern in control of the flood, gigantic scale of the project, etc. in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately $292,000,000, heretofore made by the local interests in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the project herein adopted is required.

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