FEDERAL · 33 U.S.C. · Chapter 15
Declaration of policy of 1936 act
33 U.S.C. § 701a
Title33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter15 — FLOOD CONTROL
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33 U.S.C. § 701a.
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It is recognized that destructive floods upon the rivers of the United States, upsetting orderly processes and causing loss of life and property, including the erosion of lands, and impairing and obstructing navigation, highways, railroads, and other channels of commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof; that investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways, including watersheds thereof, for flood-control purposes are in the interest of the general welfare; that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement
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History
(June 22, 1936, ch. 688, §1, 49 Stat. 1570.)
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