§ 702b. — Local contribution toward cost of flood control work.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC702b]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 15--FLOOD CONTROL
Sec. 702b. Local contribution toward cost of flood control work
It is declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of
local contribution toward the cost of flood control work, which has been
incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is
sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in
its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for
unjustified items of work having no material national interest. As a
full compliance with this principle in view of the great expenditure
estimated at approximately $292,000,000, prior to May 15, 1928, made by
the local interests in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River for
protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of
national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of
national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement
of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the
project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage
area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those
of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the
project herein adopted is required.
(May 15, 1928, ch. 569, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 535.)
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act May 15, 1928, ch. 569, 45
Stat. 534, as amended, which enacted sections 702a, 702b to 702d, 702e
to 702g, 702h, 702i, 702j, 702k, 702l, 702m, and 704 of this title. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 701c-1, 701e, 702a, 702a-
1\1/2\, 702a-1\3/4\, 702a-11, 702c, 702h, 702i, 702j, 702l, 702m, 702n
of this title.
