Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§701b–8a Discontinuance of Preliminary Examination Reports

Title 33 › Chapter 15— FLOOD CONTROL › § 701b–8a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Army Secretary must carry out investigations and make flood-control reports as survey reports under the Chief of Engineers for studies already authorized by earlier river, harbor, or flood-control Acts. Separate preliminary examination reports are no longer required.

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Title 33, §701b–8a

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60