---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 701b–14"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "701b–14"
heading: "Structural integrity evaluations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/701b-14"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §701b–14. Structural integrity evaluations

- (a) **In general—** Upon request of a non-Federal interest, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall evaluate the structural integrity and effectiveness of a project for flood damage reduction and, if the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) determines that the project does not meet such minimum standards as the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may establish and absent action by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) the project will fail, the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) may take such action as may be necessary to restore the integrity and effectiveness of the project.
- (b) **Priority—** The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall carry out an evaluation and take such actions as may be necessary under [subsection (a)](#a) for the project for flood damage reduction, Arkansas River Levees, Arkansas.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–114, title V, § 5004, Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1191.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of Pub. L. 110–114, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.