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[CITE: 33USC561a]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
           CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 561a. Contributions from local interests; reduction to meet 
        lowered cost
        
    When the authorization of a project of river and harbor improvement 
requires that local interests shall contribute a specific sum of money 
toward its cost, the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation of 
the Chief of Engineers, may reduce the sum to be contributed to an 
amount which shall be in the same ratio to the amount of the required 
contribution as the actual cost of the work to which said contribution 
is applicable bears to its original estimated cost as set forth in the 
project document.

(Mar. 3, 1933, ch. 216, 47 Stat. 1545; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 
Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

                          Codification

    A prior provision that the reduction authorized by this section was 
not to apply to contributions made prior to Mar. 3, 1933, was omitted as 
obsolete.

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, 
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of 
the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
