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

Summary

Requires the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors to review every examination and survey report that the law allows. The Chief of Engineers can also ask the Board to review special reports that Congress orders. If the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee or the House Public Works and Transportation Committee passes a resolution asking for a review and sends it to the Chief of Engineers, the Board must examine the report and send its findings back through the Chief, who will give his conclusions as usual. The Board may not widen the project beyond what the original report or the law that authorized the work described.

Title 33, §542

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All reports on examinations and surveys authorized by law shall be reviewed by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors as provided for in section 541 of this title, and all special reports ordered by Congress shall, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, be reviewed in like manner by said board; and the said board shall also, on request by resolution of the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives, submitted to the Chief of Engineers, examine and review the report of any examination or survey made pursuant to any Act or resolution of Congress, and report thereon through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, who shall submit his conclusions thereon as in other cases: Provided, That in no case shall the board, in its report thus called for by committee resolution, extend the scope of the project contemplated in the original report upon which its examination and review has been requested, or in the provision of law authorizing the original examination or survey.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is from part of section 4 of act Mar. 4, 1913, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Act of 1913”. The last proviso of said section 4 is set out in section 541 of this title.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate or the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives” for “Committee on Commerce of the Senate or the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Termination of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and Reassignment of Duties and Responsibilities For termination of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors 180 days after Oct. 31, 1992, and reassignment of duties and responsibilities by Secretary of Army, see section 223 of Pub. L. 102–580, set out as a note under section 541 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain functions insofar as they pertain to Air Force, and to extent that they were not previously transferred to Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force from Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order No. 40, July 22, 1949.

§542 Review by Board of Engineers of Reports on Examinations and Surveys and Special Reports