---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 568"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "568"
heading: "Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/568"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §568. Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects


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.


## Source credit

(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from act Sept. 22, 1922, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1918”.