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

Summary

Provides $5,000,000 as an emergency fund for rescue work and for fixing or maintaining flood-control projects on tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River that are threatened or damaged by flooding, including the flood of 1927. The Secretary of the Army can give out the money if the Chief of Engineers recommends it. Any unspent money can be used to repay levee districts or others for past or future costs to build, repair, or maintain those flood-control works damaged or threatened by the 1927 flood or later floods, or harmed or threatened by caving riverbanks (even if the caving did not happen during a flood). The Chief of Engineers may approve moving a project’s location if needed for protection.

Title 33, §702g

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The sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927: Provided, That the unexpended and unallotted balance of said sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be allotted by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in the reimbursement of levee districts or others for expenditures heretofore incurred or made for the construction, repair, or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River that may be threatened, impaired, or destroyed by the flood of 1927 or subsequent flood or that have been impaired, damaged, or destroyed by flood; and also in the construction, repair, or maintenance, and in the reimbursement of levee districts or others for the construction, repair, or maintenance of any flood-control work on any of the tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River that have been impaired, damaged, or destroyed by caving banks or that may be threatened or impaired by caving banks of such tributaries, whether or not such caving has taken place during a flood stage: Provided further, That if the Chief of Engineers finds that it has been or will be necessary or advisable to change the location of any such flood-control work in order to provide the protection contemplated by this section, such change may be approved and/or authorized.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1930—Act June 19, 1930, inserted provisos.

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.

§702g Appropriation for Emergency Fund