§702b — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

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No local money is required for the flood control project adopted for the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River. Congress says local payments are usually fair, because locals benefit most. But because local interests already spent approximately $292,000,000 before May 15, 1928 to protect the valley, and because the project affects national prosperity, interstate commerce, and U.S. mail service, and because the work is unusually large and involves drainage outside the most affected States, no local contribution is required.

Title 33, §702b

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It is declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national interest. As a full compliance with this principle in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately $292,000,000, prior to May 15, 1928, made by the local interests in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the project herein adopted is required.

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Herein, referred to in text, means act May 15, 1928, ch. 569, 45 Stat. 534, which enacted section 702a, 702b to 702d, 702e to 702g, 702h, 702i, 702j, 702k, 702l, 702m, and 704 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

§702b Local Contribution Toward Cost of Flood Control Work

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Title 33, §702b

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