33 U.S.C. § 702a–1 — Modification of project of 1927; adoption
submitted 90 years ago by ch. 548 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 120 words · no verdicts yet
This section modifies and re-adopts the Mississippi River and tributaries flood-control project according to specified 1935 engineering recommendations and later listed statutory modifications. It directs the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Engineers to carry it out.
The Mississippi River and tributaries flood-control project adopted by section 702a is modified according to section 43 of the Chief of Engineers’ February 12, 1935 report, as further modified and amended by sections 642a, 702a–2 through 702a–12, 702g–1, 702j–1, 702j–2, 702k–1, and 702k–2. As modified, the project is adopted, authorized, and directed to be carried out under the Secretary of the Army’s direction and the Chief of Engineers’ supervision.
The project for the control of floods of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, adopted by section 702a of this title, is modified in accordance with the recommendations of section 43 of the report submitted by the Chief of Engineers to the Chairman of the Committee on Flood Control, dated February 12, 1935, and printed in House Committee on Flood Control Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, as, in sections 642a, 702a–2 to 702a–12, 702g–1, 702j–1, 702j–2, 702k–1, and 702k–2 of this title, further modified and amended; and as so modified is adopted and authorized and directed to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers.
Source credit: (June 15, 1936, ch. 548, § 1, 49 Stat. 1508; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)
- 1936Enacted · Act of June 15, 1936, ch. 548 · 49 Stat. 1508
- 1947Amended · Act of July 26, 1947, ch. 343 · 61 Stat. 501
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