§603a — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Army may use up to $5,000,000 in any one fiscal year from funds appropriated before or after March 2, 1945 to improve rivers and harbors. The money can pay to remove snags, blockages, and other debris in or next to federal channels and to protect, clear, or straighten channels in navigable harbors, streams, and their tributaries if the Chief of Engineers decides the work will help navigation, flood control, ecosystem restoration, or recreation.

Title 33, §603a

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The Secretary of the Army is authorized to allot not to exceed $5,000,000 from any appropriations made prior to or after March 2, 1945, for any one fiscal year for improvement of rivers and harbors, for removing accumulated snags, obstructions, and other debris located in or adjacent to a Federal channel, and for protecting, clearing, and straightening channels in navigable harbors and navigable streams and tributaries thereof, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable in the interest of navigation, flood control, ecosystem restoration, or recreation.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “ecosystem restoration, or recreation” for “or recreation”. 2016—Pub. L. 114–322 substituted “$5,000,000” for “$1,000,000”, “accumulated snags, obstructions, and other debris located in or adjacent to a Federal channel” for “accumulated snags and other debris”, and “, flood control, or recreation” for “or flood control”. 1986—Pub. L. 99–662 substituted “$1,000,000” for “$300,000”.

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July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641.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.

Effective Date

of 1986 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 99–662 not applicable to any project under contract for

Construction

on Nov. 17, 1986, see section 915(i) of Pub. L. 99–662, set out as a note under section 426g of this title.

§603a Removal of Snags and Debris, and Straightening, Clearing, and Protecting Channels in Navigable Waters