33 USC § 981 - Creation of Corporation

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title: "33 USC § 981 - Creation of Corporation"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "981"
section_name: "Creation of Corporation"
chapter_number: 19
chapter_name: "SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93; Pub. L. 89–670, § 8(g)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 943; Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2756.)"
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# § 981. Creation of Corporation

There is hereby created, subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Transportation, a body corporate to be known as the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”).

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**Source Credit**: (May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93; Pub. L. 89–670, § 8(g)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 943; Pub. L. 116–260, div. AA, title V, § 512(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2756.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2020— substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”.

1966— substituted “Secretary of Transportation” for “President, or the head of such agency as he may designate”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1966 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , as prescribed by the President and published in the Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly § 15(a), of  and Ex. Ord. No. 11340, , 32 F.R. 5453.

### Separability

> “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter and amending
> 
> , Money and Finance] or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.”

Section 11 of act , provided:

### References to Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

> “Any reference to the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in any law, regulation, document, record, Executive order, or other paper of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.”

, , , provided that:

### Administrator To Report Directly to Secretary of Transportation

, which provided that the Administrator of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation report directly to the Secretary notwithstanding any other provision of the Department of Transportation Act (), was repealed by , , , except for rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before .

## Executive Documents

### Executive Order No. 10534

Ex. Ord. No. 10534, , 19 F.R. 3413, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 10771, , 23 F.R. 4525, which related to the direction and supervision of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, was revoked by section 16 of Ex. Ord. No. 11382, , 32 F.R. 16247.