33 U.S.C. § 701t — Emergency fund for flood damage; amount; commitments to be fulfilled by local interests
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 771 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 225 words · no verdicts yet
This section authorizes a $25 million emergency fund for repairing and strengthening flood-control works threatened or damaged by floods. Local interests must provide needed land and maintain the works, and existing funds may be used temporarily and later reimbursed.
Congress may appropriate $25,000,000 as an emergency fund. The Secretary of the Army directs its use and the Chief of Engineers supervises it for repairing, restoring, and strengthening levees and other flood-control works threatened or destroyed by recent or later floods. The Chief may raise, extend, or otherwise modify the works as necessary for adequate flood-control operation. Local interests must provide, at no cost to the United States, all land, easements, and rights-of-way needed for the work. They must maintain and operate the completed works in a way satisfactory to the Chief. Before this fund is appropriated, the Secretary may allot whatever existing flood-control appropriations are needed to begin the authorized work immediately. Those appropriations must be reimbursed from the emergency fund when it is appropriated. Money allotted under this authority may not be diverted from unobligated money in the “Flood control, general” appropriation made available in War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Acts for specific purposes.
The sum of $25,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood control works which have been threatened or destroyed by recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods, including the raising, extending, or other modification of such works as may be necessary in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers for the adequate functioning of the works for flood control: Provided, That local interests shall provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights of way necessary for the work and shall maintain and operate all the works after completion in a manner satisfactory to the Chief of Engineers: Provided further, That pending the appropriation of said sum, the Secretary of the Army may allot from existing flood-control appropriations such sums as may be necessary for the immediate prosecution of the work authorized by this section, such appropriations to be reimbursed from said emergency fund when appropriated: And provided further, That funds allotted under this authority shall not be diverted from the unobligated funds from the appropriation “Flood control, general”, made available in War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Acts for specific purposes.
Source credit: (June 30, 1948, ch. 771, title II, § 208, 62 Stat. 1182.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 30, 1948, ch. 771 · 62 Stat. 1182
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