Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§467c Determination of Danger to Human Life and Property
Title 33 › CHAPTER 9 — PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER VII — DAM INSPECTION PROGRAM › § 467c
Summary
The Secretary must consider if a dam and its water could endanger people or property from overtopping, seepage, collapse, earth movement (including earthquakes), or nearby failures.
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Title 33, §467c
Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
For the purpose of determining whether a dam (including the waters impounded by such dam) constitutes a danger to human life or property, the Secretary shall take into consideration the possibility that the dam might be endangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion, sediment, cracking, earth movement, earthquakes, failure of bulkheads, flashboard, gates on conduits, or other conditions which exist or which might occur in any area in the vicinity of the dam.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 5 of Pub. L. 92–367 was classified to section 467d of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–303.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–303 inserted section catchline.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 467c
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102