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Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERSChapter 9 - PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
Subchapter I - IN GENERAL
Section 426b - Applicability of existing laws; projects referred to Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors

33 U.S.C. § 426b

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Current through P.L. 118-65 (published on www.congress.gov on 06/17/2024)
Section 426b - Applicability of existing laws; projects referred to Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors

All provisions of existing law relating to examinations and surveys and to works of improvement of rivers and harbors shall apply, insofar as practicable, to examinations and surveys and to works of improvement relating to shore protection; except that all projects having to do with shore protection shall be referred for consideration and recommendation to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.

33 U.S.C. § 426b

July 31, 1945, ch. 334, §2, 59 Stat. 508; Pub. L. 88-172, §1, Nov. 7, 1963, 77 Stat. 304.

EDITORIAL NOTES

CODIFICATIONProvision for the referral of projects having to do with shore protection for consideration and recommendation to the Beach Erosion Board have been omitted as obsolete in view of the abolition of the Beach Erosion Board and the transfer of its review function to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors by Pub. L. 88-172, §1. See section 426-3 of this title.

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

TERMINATION OF BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS AND REASSIGNMENT OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESFor termination of Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors 180 days after Oct. 31, 1992, and reassignment of duties and responsibilities by Secretary of Army, see section 223 of Pub. L. 102-580 set out as a note under section 541 of this title.