---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 701b–8"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "701b–8"
heading: "Submission of report by Chief of Engineers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/701b-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §701b–8. Submission of report by Chief of Engineers


It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that the following provisions shall be observed:

No project or any modification not authorized, of a project for flood control or rivers and harbors, shall be authorized by the Congress unless a report for such project or modification has been previously submitted by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in conformity with existing law.


## Source credit

(Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1264, title II, § 202, 68 Stat. 1256.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section comprises last two paragraphs of section 202 of act Sept. 3, 1954. First paragraph of section 202 is set out as a note under section 701–1 of this title.

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior acts:

May 17, 1950, ch. 188, title II, § 202, 64 Stat. 170.

June 30, 1948, ch. 771, title II, § 202, 62 Stat. 1175.

July 24, 1946, ch. 596, § 2, 60 Stat. 641.