Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§701t Emergency Fund for Flood Damage; Amount; Commitments to Be Fulfilled by Local Interests

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Makes $25,000,000 available as an emergency fund so the Secretary of the Army, under the Chief of Engineers, can fix, rebuild, raise, extend, or strengthen levees and other flood-control works that floods have damaged or might damage later. Local interests must give any land, easements, and rights-of-way for free and must run and keep the works after they are finished in a way the Chief of Engineers approves. Until the $25,000,000 is formally provided, the Secretary may use existing flood-control money to start work but must pay that back from the emergency fund later. Money used this way cannot come from the unused balances in the "Flood control, general" appropriation in War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Acts.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §701t

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The sum of $25,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood control works which have been threatened or destroyed by recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods, including the raising, extending, or other modification of such works as may be necessary in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers for the adequate functioning of the works for flood control: Provided, That local interests shall provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights of way necessary for the work and shall maintain and operate all the works after completion in a manner satisfactory to the Chief of Engineers: Provided further, That pending the appropriation of said sum, the Secretary of the Army may allot from existing flood-control appropriations such sums as may be necessary for the immediate prosecution of the work authorized by this section, such appropriations to be reimbursed from said emergency fund when appropriated: And provided further, That funds allotted under this authority shall not be diverted from the unobligated funds from the appropriation “Flood control, general”, made available in War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Acts for specific purposes.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 701t

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60