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§701r Protection of Highways, Bridge Approaches, Lighthouses, Public Works, and Nonprofit Public Services

Title 33 › Chapter 15— FLOOD CONTROL › § 701r

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army can use up to $50,000,000 each year from flood-control funds to build, repair, restore, or change emergency riverbank and shoreline protections. These works prevent damage to highways, bridge approaches, lighthouses (including historic ones), public works, churches, hospitals, schools, and similar nonprofit public services when the Chief of Engineers decides they are needed. No more than $15,000,000 may be spent at any one locality in a single fiscal year. If a project’s federal share costs more than that, the non-Federal partner must pay the extra amount as the Secretary decides.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §701r

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of the Army is authorized to allot from any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for flood control, not to exceed $50,000,000 per year, for the construction, repair, restoration, and modification of emergency streambank and shoreline protection works to prevent damage to highways, bridge approaches, lighthouses (including those lighthouses with historical value), and public works, churches, hospitals, schools, and other nonprofit public services, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable: Provided, That not more than $15,000,000 shall be allotted for this purpose at any single locality from the appropriations for any one fiscal year, and if such amount is not sufficient to cover the costs included in the Federal cost share for a project, as determined by the Secretary, the non-Federal interest shall be responsible for any such costs that exceed such amount.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 118–272 substituted “$50,000,000” for “$25,000,000” and “$15,000,000” for “$10,000,000”. 2022—Pub. L. 117–263 inserted “lighthouses (including those lighthouses with historical value),” after “bridge approaches,” and substituted “$10,000,000” for “$5,000,000”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–270 substituted “$25,000,000” for “$20,000,000” and inserted “, and if such amount is not sufficient to cover the costs included in the Federal cost share for a project, as determined by the Secretary, the non-Federal interest shall be responsible for any such costs that exceed such amount” before period at end. 2014—Pub. L. 113–121 substituted “$20,000,000” for “$15,000,000” and “$5,000,000” for “$1,500,000”. 2007—Pub. L. 110–114 substituted “$1,500,000” for “$1,000,000”. 1996—Pub. L. 104–303 substituted “$15,000,000” for “$12,500,000” and “$1,000,000” for “$500,000”. 1986—Pub. L. 99–662 substituted “$12,500,000” for “$10,000,000” and “$500,000” for “$250,000”. 1974—Pub. L. 93–251 substituted “$10,000,000” for “$1,000,000”, “$250,000” for “$50,000”, and “

Construction

, repair, restoration, and modification of emergency streambank and shoreline protection works to prevent flood damages to highways, bridge approaches, and public works, churches, hospitals, schools, and other nonprofit public services,” for “

Construction

of emergency bank-protection works to prevent flood damages to highways, bridge approaches, and public works,”.

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

33 U.S.C. § 701r

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60