§561a — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Army may lower the amount local groups must pay for a river or harbor project when they were originally told to contribute a set sum. If the actual cost of the work is less than the original estimate in the project papers, and the Chief of Engineers recommends it, the Secretary can cut the local share by the same proportion as the actual cost is to the estimated cost.

Title 33, §561a

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When the authorization of a project of river and harbor improvement requires that local interests shall contribute a specific sum of money toward its cost, the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, may reduce the sum to be contributed to an amount which shall be in the same ratio to the amount of the required contribution as the actual cost of the work to which said contribution is applicable bears to its original estimated cost as set forth in the project document.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification A prior provision that the reduction authorized by this section was not to apply to contributions made prior to Mar. 3, 1933, was omitted as obsolete.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act

July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. section 205(a) of act

July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

§561a Contributions from local interests; reduction to meet lowered cost