33 USC § 417 - Expenses of investigations by Department of the Army

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s417"
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title: "33 USC § 417 - Expenses of investigations by Department of the Army"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "417"
section_name: "Expenses of investigations by Department of the Army"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "IN GENERAL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1482, § 6, 33 Stat. 1148; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)"
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# § 417. Expenses of investigations by Department of the Army

Expenses incurred by the Engineer Department of the Department of the Army in all investigations, inspections, hearings, reports, service of notice, or other action incidental to examination of plans or sites of bridges or other structures built or proposed to be built in or over navigable waters, or to examinations into alleged violations of laws for the protection and preservation of navigable waters, or to the establishment or marking of harbor lines, shall be payable from any funds which may be available for the improvement, maintenance, operation, or care of the waterways or harbors affected, or if such funds are not available in sums judged by the Chief of Engineers to be adequate, then from any funds available for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1482, § 6, 33 Stat. 1148; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of , . Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of , . Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

### Transfer of Functions

Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of the Army and other offices and officers of Department of the Army under  to extent that they relate generally to location and clearances of bridges and causeways in navigable waters of United States transferred to and vested in Secretary of Transportation by , , , which created Department of Transportation.  amended  to reflect transfer made by , and repealed section 6(g)(6)(A).