Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§701b–8a Discontinuance of Preliminary Examination Reports
Title 33 › CHAPTER 15 — FLOOD CONTROL › § 701b–8a
Summary
The Secretary of the Army must carry out investigations and make reports for flood control and related purposes that were allowed by earlier river and harbor and flood control laws. Those studies must be written as survey reports and done under the Chief of Engineers’ supervision. The requirement to produce separate preliminary examination reports is removed.
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Title 33, §701b–8a
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For preliminary examinations and surveys authorized in previous river and harbor and flood control Acts, the Secretary of the Army is directed to cause investigations and reports for flood control and allied purposes, to be prepared under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers in the form of survey reports, and that preliminary examination reports shall no longer be required to be prepared.
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Previous river and harbor and flood-control Acts, referred to in text, means those acts prior to the River and Harbor Act of 1958 and the Flood Control Act of 1958, titles I and II of Pub. L. 85–500.
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33 U.S.C. § 701b–8a
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102