---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 467c"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "467c"
heading: "Determination of danger to human life and property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/467c"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter VII — Dam Inspection Program"
---

# §467c. Determination of danger to human life and property


For the purpose of determining whether a [dam](/usc/33/467.md?p=3) (including the waters impounded by such [dam](/usc/33/467.md?p=3)) constitutes a danger to human life or property, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall take into consideration the possibility that the [dam](/usc/33/467.md?p=3) might be endangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion, sediment, cracking, earth movement, earthquakes, failure of bulkheads, flashboard, gates on conduits, or other conditions which exist or which might occur in any area in the vicinity of the [dam](/usc/33/467.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507; renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5 of Pub. L. 92–367 was classified to section 467d of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–303.

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–303 inserted section catchline.