Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 15 — Flood Control
§ 707. Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner; declaration of purpose; report to Congress; appropriation
Statutory text
The Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner on the Pecos River, New Mexico, is authorized and declared to be for the purposes of controlling floods, regulating the flow of the Pecos River, providing for storage and for delivery of stored waters, for the reclamation of lands, and other beneficial uses, and said dam and reservoir shall be used, first, for irrigation; second, for flood control and river regulation; and third, for other purposes. The Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of the Army are directed to report to the Congress the amount of the total cost of said Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner which is properly allocable to flood control. The appropriation and transfer of such amount from the general fund of the Treasury to the reclamation fund, for credit by reduction of the maximum obligation of the Carlsbad Irrigation District to repay the total cost thereof, is authorized.
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.
Pub. L. 76–699 § 7 · 53 Stat. 1414
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 707
Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 699, § 7, 53 Stat. 1417
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 699, § 7, 53 Stat. 1417Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. That the Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir on the Pecos Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir, Pecos River, N. Mex., purposes declared. River, New Mexico, is hereby authorized and declared to be for the purposes of controlling floods, regulating the flow of the Pecos River, providing for storage and for delivery of stored waters, for the reclamation of lands, and other beneficial uses, and said dam and reservoir shall be used, first, for irrigation; second, for flood control and river regulation; and third, for other purposes. The Chief of Report to Congress. Engineers and the Secretary of War are directed to report to the Congress the amount of the total cost of said Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir which is properly allocable to flood control. The appropriation Transfer of funds authorized. and transfer of such amount from the general fund of the Treasury to the reclamation fund, for credit by reduction of the maximum obligation of the Carlsbad Irrigation District to repay the total cost thereof, is hereby authorized.Pub. L. 93–447 · 88 Stat. 1363
Substituted · 33 U.S.C. § 707
Pub. L. 93–447 substituted “Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner” for “Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir” wherever appearing
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 93–447 substituted “Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner” for “Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir” wherever appearing.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1974—Pub. L. 93–447 substituted “Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner” for “Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir” wherever appearing.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir Redesignated as Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner
Pub. L. 93–447, , 88 Stat. 1363, provided: “That the Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir, New Mexico, referred to in the Act of (53 Stat. 1414) [which enacted this section], are redesignated as Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner, respectively. Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such dam or reservoir is referred to shall be held to refer to such dam as Sumner Dam or such reservoir as Lake Sumner.”
Credits
1939–1974 · 3 acts
- 1939Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 699, § 7, 53 Stat. 1417
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501
- 1974Pub. L. 93–447, , 88 Stat. 1363.
Show as published
(Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 699, § 7, 53 Stat. 1417; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501; Pub. L. 93–447, , 88 Stat. 1363.)