§1009 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

When the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works or the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation passes a resolution allowing it, the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture must work together, using their current powers, to study watershed areas in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and write joint reports with recommendations for flood prevention and for water conservation, development, use, and disposal. Those reports must be sent to Congress through the President for approval and authorization. The project-authorization process under Public Law 566, Eighty-third Congress, as amended, is not changed.

Title 16, §1009

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The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture, when authorized to do so by resolutions adopted by the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, are authorized and directed to make joint investigations and surveys in accordance with their existing authorities of watershed areas in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and to prepare joint reports on such investigations and surveys setting forth their recommendations for the installation of the works of improvement needed for flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, and for flood control and allied purposes. Such joint reports shall be submitted to the Congress through the President for adoption and authorization by the Congress of the recommended works of improvement: Provided, That the project authorization procedure established by Public Law 566, Eighty-third Congress, as amended [16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.], shall not be affected.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Public Law 566, referred to in text, is act Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, 68 Stat. 666, known as the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House” for “Committee on Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works of the House”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Authorization of Appropriations Pub. L. 87–639, § 2, Sept. 5, 1962, 76 Stat. 438, provided that: “There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act [this section], such sums to remain available until expended.”

§1009 Joint investigations and surveys by Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Agriculture; reports to Congress