Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§684 Cooperation by commission with State authorities
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 14— - CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION › § 684
Summary
To keep actions coordinated and costs down, the federal commission may work with a California commission of engineers (if the State allows) on improving and protecting navigable streams, stopping mining debris from being dumped, and on California’s land reclamation, drainage, protection, and hydraulic-mining work. They must report the results to the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and if he approves, the federal commission must follow them.
Full Legal Text
Title 33, §684
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
For the purpose of securing harmony of action and economy in expenditures in the work to be done by the United States and the State of California, respectively, the former in its plans for the improvement and protection of the navigable streams and to prevent the depositing of mining debris or other materials within the same, and the latter in its plans authorized by law for the reclamation, drainage, and protection of its lands, or relating to the working of hydraulic mines, the said commission is empowered to consult thereon with a commission of engineers of said State, if authorized by said State for said purpose, the result of such conference to be reported to the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and if by him approved shall be followed by said commission.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 684
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73