Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 15 — Flood Control
§ 709b. Flood hazard information
Statutory text
The Secretary, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service shall take necessary actions, including the posting and distribution of information and the preparation and distribution of educational materials and programs, to ensure that information relating to flood hazard areas is generally available to the public.
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. 99–662 title IX § 944 · 100 Stat. 4082
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 709b
Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 944, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 944, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 944. FLOOD HAZARD INFORMATION. Public information. The Secretary, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service shall take necessary actions, including the posting and distribution of information and the preparation and distribution of educational materials and programs, to ensure that information relating to flood hazard areas is generally available to the public.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency” substituted for “Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency” in text on authority of section 612(c) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6, Domestic Security. Any reference to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in title VI of Pub. L. 109–295 or an amendment by title VI to be considered to refer and apply to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until , see section 612(f)(2) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6.
“Secretary” Defined
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.
Credits
1986–2006 · 2 acts
- 1986Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 944, , 100 Stat. 4200
- 2006Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 612(c), , 120 Stat. 1410.
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(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 944, , 100 Stat. 4200; Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 612(c), , 120 Stat. 1410.)