33 U.S.C. § 702b — Local contribution toward cost of flood control work
submitted 98 years ago by ch. 569 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 194 words · no verdicts yet
Congress states that local contributions to flood-control costs are generally sound. For this Mississippi River project, however, no local contribution is required because of prior local spending, national interests, and the project’s scale.
Congress states that requiring local contributions to flood-control costs is a sound principle. Earlier national laws used it because local people have a special interest in protecting themselves and because it helps prevent excessive requests for work with no important national interest. But this project requires no local contribution. Congress bases that decision on local interests’ estimated spending of about $292,000,000 before May 15, 1928, to protect the alluvial Mississippi Valley from the river’s floods; the national importance of controlling those floods for prosperity, interstate commerce, and United States mail; and the project’s enormous scale, including flood waters from a drainage area largely outside the most affected States and volumes greater than those of any other United States river.
It is declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national interest. As a full compliance with this principle in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately $292,000,000, prior to May 15, 1928, made by the local interests in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the project herein adopted is required.
Source credit: (May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 2, 45 Stat. 535.)
- 1928Enacted · Act of May 15, 1928, ch. 569 · 45 Stat. 535
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 569 on 1928-05-15.
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