§ 665. — Survey for debris reservoirs; study of methods of mines and mining.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC665]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 14--CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION
Sec. 665. Survey for debris reservoirs; study of methods of
mines and mining
It shall further examine, survey, and determine the utility and
practicability, for the purposes hereinafter indicated, of storage sites
in the tributaries of said rivers and in the respective branches of said
tributaries, or in the plains, basins, sloughs, and tule and swamp lands
adjacent to or along the course of said rivers, for the storage of
debris or water or as settling reservoirs, with the object of using the
same by either or all of these methods to aid in the improvement and
protection of said navigable rivers by preventing deposits therein of
debris resulting from mining operations, natural erosion, or other
causes, or for affording relief thereto in flood time and providing
sufficient water to maintain scouring force therein in the summer
season; and in connection therewith to investigate such hydraulic and
other mines as are or may have been worked by methods intended to
restrain the debris and material moved in operating such mines by
impounding dams, settling reservoirs, or otherwise, and in general to
make such study of and researches in the hydraulic mining industry as
science, experience, and engineering skill may suggest as practicable
and useful in devising a method or methods whereby such mining may be
carried on as aforesaid.
(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, Sec. 5, 27 Stat. 507.)
Transfer of Functions
California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to
Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99-662, title XI, Sec. 1106, Nov. 17,
1986, 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 661 of this title.
