Title 33Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§467g Research

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - DAM INSPECTION PROGRAM › § 467g

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator, working with the Board, must run research to make dams safer. The work must improve methods and equipment for quick, safe construction, repair, and inspection; create devices to keep monitoring dam safety; build information systems to manage safety; and support efforts that guide public policy and improve engineering, security, and management. States must be allowed to join the research, and the Administrator must regularly report the results to all States and to Congress.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §467g

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(a)The Administrator, in cooperation with the Board, shall carry out a program of technical and archival research to develop and support—
(1)improved techniques, historical experience, and equipment for rapid and effective dam construction, rehabilitation, and inspection;
(2)devices for the continued monitoring of the safety of dams;
(3)development and maintenance of information resources systems needed to support managing the safety of dams; and
(4)initiatives to guide the formulation of effective public policy and advance improvements in dam safety engineering, security, and management.
(b)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.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 467g, Pub. L. 92–367, § 8, as added Pub. L. 99–662, title XII, § 1201(b), Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4261, set out the requisite features of State dam safety programs and provided for program approval and periodic review, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(2), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3685. A prior section 9 of Pub. L. 92–367 was classified to section 467h of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–303.

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–121 substituted “Administrator” for “Director” in introductory provisions of subsec. (a) and in subsec. (b). 2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–310, § 4(1), in introductory provisions, substituted “in cooperation with the Board” for “in cooperation with ICODS” and inserted “and support” after “develop”. Subsec. (a)(3), (4). Pub. L. 107–310, § 4(2)–(4), added pars. (3) and (4).

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 467g

Title 33Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73