[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: 33CFR214.4]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

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

                                 DEFENSE

 

PART 214_EMERGENCY SUPPLIES OF DRINKING WATER--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  214.4  Additional authority.



    Section 82(2), Pub. L. 93-251, dated 7 March 1974, revised Pub. L. 

84-99, as amended, by adding the following new sentence. ``The Chief of 

Engineers, in the exercise of his discretion, is further authorized to 

provide emergency supplies of clean drinking water, on such terms as he 

determines to be advisable, to any locality which he finds is confronted 

with a source of contaminated drinking water causing or likely to cause 

a substantial threat to the public health and welfare of the inhabitants 

of the locality.'' This authority expands the measures the Chief of 

Engineers may employ in providing emergency relief pursuant to Pub. L. 

84-99.