---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 547"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "547"
heading: "Reports as to local benefits of improvement and recommendations as to local cooperation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/547"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §547. Reports as to local benefits of improvement and recommendations as to local cooperation


Every report submitted to Congress in pursuance of any provision of law for a survey, in addition to other information which the Congress has directed shall be given, shall contain a statement of special or local benefit which will accrue to localities affected by such improvement and a statement of general or national benefits, with recommendations as to what local cooperation should be required, if any, on account of such special or local benefit.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1920, ch. 252, § 2, 41 Stat. 1010.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from act June 5, 1920, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1921”.