Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§426l Protection of Lake Ontario

Title 33 › CHAPTER 9 — PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER I — IN GENERAL › § 426l

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Army Secretary, via the Chief of Engineers, must quickly make and send to Congress a plan to prevent Lake Ontario shoreline erosion. The plan must recommend protection methods, fair cost sharing, and lake-level rules to protect the environment and limit shoreline damage. $2,000,000 authorized. Until Congress acts, federal agencies must try within current authority to minimize shoreline damage. Called the Lake Ontario Protection Act of 1976.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §426l

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Plan for shoreline protection and beach erosion control; report to Congress

The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to develop a plan for shoreline protection and beach erosion control along Lake Ontario, and report on such plan to the Congress as soon as practicable. Such report shall include recommendations on measures of protection and proposals for equitable cost sharing, together with recommendations for regulating the level of Lake Ontario to assure maximum protection of the natural environment and to hold shoreline damage to a minimum.

(b)Minimization of damage and erosion to Lake Ontario shoreline

Until the Congress receives and acts upon the report required under subsection (a) of this section, all Federal agencies having responsibilities affecting the level of Lake Ontario shall, consistent with existing authority, make every effort to discharge such responsibilities in a manner so as to minimize damage and erosion to the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $2,000,000.

(d)Short title

This section may be cited as the “Lake Ontario Protection Act of 1976.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

33 U.S.C. § 426l

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110