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33 U.S.C. § 3304 — Limitations on statutory construction
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as—
(1) creating any liability of the United States or its officers or employees for the recovery of damages caused by an action or failure to act; or
(2) relieving an owner or operator of a levee of a legal duty, obligation, or liability incident to the ownership or operation of a levee.
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as—
(1) creating any liability of the United States or its officers or employees for the recovery of damages caused by an action or failure to act; or
(2) relieving an owner or operator of a levee of a legal duty, obligation, or liability incident to the ownership or operation of a levee.
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**(a) Establishment** The Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, shall carry out a levee safety initiative.
**(b) Management** The Secretary shall appoint—
(1) an administrator of the levee safety initiative; and
(2) such staff as are necessary to implement the initiative.
**(c) Levee safety guidelines**
(1) **Establishment** — Not later than 1 year after December 16, 2016, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator and in coordination with State, regional, local, and tribal governments and organizations with expertise in levee safety, shall establish a set of voluntary, comprehensive, national levee safety guidelines that—
(A) are available for common, uniform use by all Federal, State, regional, local, and tribal agencies;
(B) incorporate policies, procedures, standards, and criteria for a range of levee types, canal structures, and related facilities and features; and
(C) provide for adaptation to local, regional, or watershed conditions.
(2) **Requirement** — The policies, procedures, standards, and criteria under paragraph (1)(B) shall be developed taking into consideration the levee hazard potential classification system established under subsection (d).
(3) **Incorporation** — The guidelines shall address, to the maximum extent practicable—
(A) the activities and practices carried out by State, regional, local, and tribal governments and the private sector to safely build, regulate, operate, and maintain levees; and
(B) Federal activities that facilitate State, regional, or tribal efforts to develop and implement effective State, regional, or tribal programs for the safety of levees, including levee inspection, levee rehabilitation, locally developed floodplain management, and public education and training programs.
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TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
§ 3304
(1) levee owners from obtaining needed levee
engineering services; or
(2) development and implementation of a
State, regional, or tribal levee safety program.
(Pub. L. 110–114, title IX, § 9006, as added Pub. L.
113–121, title III, § 3016(e)(2), June 10, 2014, 128
Stat. 1299; amended Pub. L. 114–322, title I,
§ 1130(d), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1652.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 9006 of Pub. L. 110–114 was renumbered
section 9008, and is classified to section 3305 of this
title.
AMENDMENTS
2016—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(1)(A),
substituted ‘‘1 year after December 16, 2016’’ for ‘‘1 year
after June 10, 2014’’ in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(1)(B), sub-
stituted ‘‘State, regional, and tribal’’ for ‘‘State and
tribal’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(2)(A), in introduc-
tory provisions, substituted ‘‘2 years after December 16,
2016’’ for ‘‘2 years after June 10, 2014’’ and ‘‘State, re-
gional, tribal, and local’’ for ‘‘State, tribal, and local’’.
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(2)(B), sub-
stituted ‘‘State, regional, and tribal’’ for ‘‘State and
tribal’’.
Subsec. (c)(4). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(2)(C), sub-
stituted ‘‘State, regional, tribal, and local’’ for ‘‘State
and local’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(3)(A), substituted
‘‘1 year after December 16, 2016’’ for ‘‘1 year after June
10, 2014’’ in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 114–322, § 1130(d)(3)(B), sub-
stituted ‘‘State, regional, or tribal’’ for ‘‘State or trib-
al’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
‘‘SECRETARY’’ DEFINED
Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see sec-
tion 2 of Pub. L. 110–11
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