33 U.S.C. § 702g: Appropriation for emergency…

Summary

Provides $5,000,000 as an emergency fund for the Secretary of the Army, on the Chief of Engineers’ recommendation, to pay for rescue work and to repair or maintain flood-control projects on tributaries of the Mississippi River that are threatened or destroyed by floods, including the flood of 1927. Any unused money may be given to reimburse levee districts or others for past or future costs to build, repair, or maintain flood-control work on tributaries or outlets of the Mississippi River damaged, threatened, or impaired by the 1927 flood or later floods, or by caving banks. The Chief of Engineers may approve moving a project’s location if that change is 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