33 U.S.C. § 467g — Research
submitted 30 years ago by Pub. L. 92-367 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 115 words · no verdicts yet
FEMA must research ways to make dams safer. This includes better building methods, monitoring devices, and information systems for managing dam safety. FEMA must involve the states and report results to them and to Congress.
(a) In general The Administrator*, with the Board*, must run a program* of technical and archival research to develop and support: (1) improved techniques, historical experience, and equipment for fast, effective dam* construction, repair (rehabilitation*), and inspection; (2) devices to keep monitoring dam safety; (3) building and keeping up information systems needed to manage dam safety; and (4) projects that help shape good public policy and improve dam safety engineering, security, and management.
(b) Consultation The Administrator must let states take part in this research and must regularly tell all states and Congress what the research found.
The Administrator*, in cooperation with the Board*, shall carry out a program* of technical and archival research to develop and support—
improved techniques, historical experience, and equipment for rapid and effective dam* construction, rehabilitation*, and inspection;
devices for the continued monitoring of the safety of dams;
development and maintenance of information resources systems needed to support managing the safety of dams; and
initiatives to guide the formulation of effective public policy and advance improvements in dam safety engineering, security, and management.
The Administrator shall provide for State* participation in research under subsection (a) and periodically advise all States and Congress of the results of the research.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 92–367, § 9, as added Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(8), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3692; amended Pub. L. 107–310, § 4, Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2453; Pub. L. 113–121, title III, § 3001(a)(1), June 10, 2014, 128 Stat. 1282.)
- 1996Enacted · Pub. L. 92-367 · 110 Stat. 3692
- 2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-310 · 116 Stat. 2453
- 2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-121 · 128 Stat. 1282
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 92-367 on 1996-10-12.
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