Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects
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/us/usc/t33/s568
Title
33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter
CH12
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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No project shall be considered by any committee of Congress with a view to its adoption, except with a view to a survey, if five years have elapsed since a report upon a survey of such project has been submitted to Congress pursuant to law.
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from act Sept. 22, 1922, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1918”.
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