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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 19 — Saint Lawrence Seaway

§ 981. Creation of Corporation

Statutory text

There is hereby created, subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, a body corporate to be known as the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”).

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. May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93 · 68 Stat. 93

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 981

    May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93

  2. Department of Transportation Act

    Pub. L. 89–670 § 8(g)(1) · 80 Stat. 931

    Substituted · 33 U.S.C. § 981

    Pub. L. 89–670 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “President, or the head of such agency as he may designate”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–670 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “President, or the head of such agency as he may designate”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Section 1 of the Act of May 13, 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 93; 33 U.S.C. 981), is amended to read as follows: “Section 1. There is hereby created, subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, a body corporate to be known as the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Corporation’).”

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 89–670 effective Apr. 1, 1967, as prescribed by the President and published in the Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly § 15(a), of Pub. L. 89–670 and Ex. Ord. No. 11340, Mar. 30, 1967, 32 F.R. 5453.

  3. Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021

    Pub. L. 116–260 div. AA title V § 512(a)(1) · 134 Stat. 1182

    Substituted · 33 U.S.C. § 981

    Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1966–2020 · 2 rounds

2020

Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”.

1966

Pub. L. 89–670 substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “President, or the head of such agency as he may designate”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1966 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 89–670 effective , as prescribed by the President and published in the Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly § 15(a), of Pub. L. 89–670 and Ex. Ord. No. 11340, , 32 F.R. 5453.

Separability

Section 11 of act , provided: “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter and amending section 846 of Title 31, Money and Finance] or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.”

References to Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(b), , 134 Stat. 2756, provided that: “Any reference to the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in any law, regulation, document, record, Executive order, or other paper of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.”

Administrator To Report Directly to Secretary of Transportation

Pub. L. 89–670, § 8(g)(2), which provided that the Administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation report directly to the Secretary notwithstanding any other provision of the Department of Transportation Act (Pub. L. 89–670), was repealed by Pub. L. 97–449, § 7(b), , 96 Stat. 2444, except for rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before .

Executive Documents

Executive Order No. 10534

Ex. Ord. No. 10534, , 19 F.R. 3413, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 10771, , 23 F.R. 4525, which related to the direction and supervision of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, was revoked by section 16 of Ex. Ord. No. 11382, , 32 F.R. 16247.

Credits

1954–2020 · 3 acts
  1. 1954May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93
  2. 1966Pub. L. 89–670, § 8(g)(1), , 80 Stat. 943
  3. 2020Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(a)(1), , 134 Stat. 2756.
Show as published

(May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93; Pub. L. 89–670, § 8(g)(1), , 80 Stat. 943; Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(a)(1), , 134 Stat. 2756.)

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