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[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.
