33 USC § 467c - Determination of danger to human life and property

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s467c"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 467c - Determination of danger to human life and property"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "467c"
section_name: "Determination of danger to human life and property"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "DAM INSPECTION PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507; renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.)"
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# § 467c. Determination of danger to human life and property

For the purpose of determining whether a dam (including the waters impounded by such dam) constitutes a danger to human life or property, the Secretary shall take into consideration the possibility that the dam might be endangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion, sediment, cracking, earth movement, earthquakes, failure of bulkheads, flashboard, gates on conduits, or other conditions which exist or which might occur in any area in the vicinity of the dam.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507; renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior  was classified to  prior to repeal by .

### Amendments

1996— inserted section catchline.