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Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§702g–1 Additional Appropriation for Emergency Fund

Title 33 › Chapter 15— FLOOD CONTROL › § 702g–1

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Sets aside $15,000,000 as an emergency fund for the Secretary of the Army, on the Chief of Engineers' recommendation, to pay for rescue work or to repair and keep up flood-control projects on tributaries of the Mississippi River that are threatened or damaged by floods, whether those floods happened before or after this law. Any unused money may be used to pay back levee districts or others for costs they paid before June 15, 1936, for building, repairing, or maintaining flood-control work on tributaries or outlets harmed by the flood of 1927 or later floods. It also covers work damaged or threatened by caving banks, even if the caving did not happen during a flood. If the Chief of Engineers finds a move of a project is needed to provide protection, that change may be approved.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §702g–1

Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The sum of $15,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allocated 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 tributary of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring: 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 incurred or made prior to June 15, 1936 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; 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 may 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 authorized.

Legislative History

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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.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 702g–1

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60