§702g — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

Provides $5,000,000 as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of the Army when the Chief of Engineers recommends it. The money can pay for rescue work and for repairing or maintaining flood-control projects on rivers that feed into the Mississippi River, including damage from the flood of 1927 and later floods. Any unspent balance may be used to reimburse levee districts or others for expenses already paid or for work done to build, fix, or maintain those flood-control projects. The fund also covers work and reimbursements for damage caused by caving banks (bank collapses) on those tributaries, whether or not the collapse happened during a flood. If the Chief of Engineers finds that moving a flood-control work is necessary or helpful to provide protection, that change may be approved.

Title 33, §702g

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The sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927: Provided, That the unexpended and unallotted balance of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be allotted by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in the reimbursement of levee districts or others for expenditures heretofore incurred or made for the construction, repair, or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River that may be threatened, impaired, or destroyed by the flood of 1927 or subsequent flood or that have been impaired, damaged, or destroyed by flood; and also in the construction, repair, or maintenance, and in the reimbursement of levee districts or others for the construction, repair, or maintenance of any flood-control work on any of the tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River that have been impaired, damaged, or destroyed by caving banks or that may be threatened or impaired by caving banks of such tributaries, whether or not such caving has taken place during a flood stage: Provided further, That if the Chief of Engineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood-control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section, such change may be approved and/or authorized.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1930—Act June 19, 1930, inserted provisos.

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.

§702g Appropriation for emergency fund