[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR203.12]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

 CHAPTER II--CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                 DEFENSE

 

PART 203_EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT OF ARMY AND OTHER RESOURCES, NATURAL 

DISASTER PROCEDURES--Table of Contents

 

                         Subpart A_Introduction

 

Sec.  203.12  Authority.



    Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1941, as amended, (33 U.S.C. 

701n) (69 Stat. 186), commonly and hereinafter referred to as Public Law 

84-99, authorizes an emergency fund to be expended at the discretion of 

the Chief of Engineers for: preparation for natural disasters; flood 

fighting and rescue operations; repair or restoration of flood control 

works threatened, damaged, or destroyed by flood, or nonstructural 

alternatives thereto; emergency protection of federally authorized 

hurricane or shore protection projects which are threatened, when such 

protection is warranted to protect against imminent and substantial loss 

to life and property; and repair and restoration of federally authorized 

hurricane or shore protection projects damaged or destroyed by wind, 

wave, or water of other than ordinary nature. The law includes provision 

of emergency supplies of clean water when a contaminated source 

threatens the public health and welfare of a locality, and activities 

necessary to protect life and improved property from a threat resulting 

from a major flood or coastal storm. This law authorizes the Secretary 

of the Army (Secretary) to construct wells and to transport water



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within areas determined by the Secretary to be drought-distressed. The 

Secretary of the Army has delegated the authority vested in the 

Secretary under Public Law 84-99 through the Assistant Secretary of the 

Army (Civil Works) to the Chief of Engineers, subject to such further 

direction as the Secretary may provide.