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[CITE: 33USC702j-2]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                        CHAPTER 15--FLOOD CONTROL
 
Sec. 702j-2. White River Levee District; rights-of-way; drainage 
        facilities; flowage rights; acquisition by local authorities; 
        protection of United States from liability for damages
        
    The Chief of Engineers, under the supervision of the Secretary of 
the Army, shall at the expense of the United States Government construct 
a system of levees substantially in accordance with general plan shown 
on map designated as sheet numbered 1 entitled ``Tributary Levee 
Location Survey--White River Levee District--Proposed Levee Location'' 
accompanying report dated April 2, 1925, and filed in office of First 
and Second Mississippi River Commission Districts, Memphis, Tennessee. 
The Chief of Engineers shall have the right to alter, change, or modify 
said plan as to the grades and levee sections: Provided, however, That 
no work shall be commenced on the above-mentioned project until the 
State, levee boards, or other responsible local interests have given 
assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) 
provide without cost to the United States all rights-of-way necessary 
for the construction of said project; (b) provide drainage facilities 
made necessary by construction of levees; (c) acquire and provide 
without cost to the United States all flowage and storage rights and 
easements over, upon, and across the lands and properties within the 
protected area in the event it becomes necessary in the judgment and 
discretion of the Secretary of the Army or the Chief of Engineers to use 
said area, or any part thereof, for an emergency reservoir; (d) hold and 
save the United States free from liability for damages on account of the 
use of said area for reservoir purposes during said emergency.

(June 15, 1936, ch. 548, Sec. 5, 49 Stat. 1509; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

                         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act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 702a-1, 702a-1\1/2\, 702a-
1\3/4\, 702a-11, 702a-12, 702j-1, 702k-1 of this title.
