33 U.S. Code § 701n - Emergency response to natural disasters
(1) There is approved a secret stash to be consumed in arrangement for crisis reaction to any catastrophic event, in surge battling and safeguard operations, or in the repair or reclamation of any surge control work undermined or annihilated by surge, including the reinforcing, raising, broadening, or other adjustment thereof as might be fundamental in the prudence of the Chief of Engineers for the satisfactory working of the work for surge control and subject to the condition that the Chief of Engineers may incorporate changes to the structure or venture, or in usage of nonstructural contrasting options to the repair or rebuilding of such surge control work if asked for by the non-Federal support; in the crisis security of governmentally approved Typhoon or shore assurance being debilitated when in the tact of the Chief of Engineers such insurance is justified to ensure against up and coming and considerable misfortune to life and property; in the repair and reclamation of any governmentally approved sea tempest or shore defensive structure or undertaking harmed or obliterated by wind, wave, or water activity of other than a common nature to the outline level of security when, in the attentiveness of the Chief of Engineers, such repair and rebuilding is justified for the sufficient working of the structure or task for storm or shore insurance, subject to the condition that the Chief of Engineers may incorporate alterations to the structure or venture to address real insufficiencies or actualize nonstructural other options to the repair or reclamation of the structure if asked for by the non-Federal support. The secret stash may likewise be exhausted for crisis digging for the rebuilding of approved task profundities for Federal traversable channels and conduits made vital by the surge, dry season, quake, or other cataclysmic events. Regardless in which the Chief of Engineers is generally performing work under this segment in a region for which the Governor of the influenced State has asked for an assurance that a crisis exists or a presentation that a noteworthy catastrophe exists under the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act [42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.], the Chief of Engineers is additionally approved to perform on open and private grounds and waters for a time of ten days following the Governor's ask for any crisis work made vital by such crisis or fiasco which is fundamental for the safeguarding of life and property, including, yet not constrained to, channel freedom, crisis shore security, leeway and evacuation of flotsam and jetsam and destruction jeopardizing general well-being and security, and impermanent rebuilding of basic open offices and administrations. The Chief of Engineers, in the activity of his prudence, is additionally approved to give crisis supplies of clean water, on such terms as he decides to be prudent, to any territory which he finds is faced with a wellspring of defiled water causing or prone to make a considerable danger the general well-being and welfare of the tenants of the region. The appointment of such cash for the underlying foundation of this reserve and for its renewal on a yearly premise, is approved: Provided, That pending the allocation of entireties to such just-in-case account, the Secretary of the Army may distribute, from existing surge control assignments, such holes as might be fundamental for the prompt arraignment of the work in this approved, such allotments to be repaid from the apportionment in this approved when made. The Chief of Engineers is approved, in the indictment of work regarding salvage operations, or in directing other surge crisis work, to get on a rental premise such engine vehicles, including traveler autos and transports, as in his circumspection are esteemed fundamental.
(2) In setting up a cost and advantage achievability evaluation for any crisis venture depicted in passage (1), the Chief of Engineers should view the advantages as picked up by such undertaking for the insurance of—
(A) private foundations;
(B) business foundations, including the assurance of stock; and
(C) horticultural foundations, including the insurance of products.
(3)Nonstructural options characterized.—
In this subsection, the expression "nonstructural options" incorporates endeavors to re-establish or secure normal assets, including streams, waterways, floodplains, wetlands, or coasts, if those endeavors will decrease surge chance.
(b) Emergency supplies of drinking water; dry season; well development and water transportation
(1) The Secretary, upon a composed demand for help under this passage made by any agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision inside a bothered range, and after an assurance by the Secretary that (A) because of the dry spell such agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision has a deficient supply of water, (B) a sufficient supply of water can be made accessible to such rancher, farmer, or political subdivision through the development of a well, and (C) because of the dry spell such well couldn't be built by a private business, the Secretary, subject to section (3) of this subsection, may go into a concurrence with such rancher, farmer, or political subdivision for the development of such well.
(2) The Secretary, upon a composed demand for help under this section made by any agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision inside a bothered zone, and after an assurance by the Secretary that because of the dry spell such agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision has a lacking supply of water and water can't be acquired by such rancher, farmer, or political subdivision, the Secretary may transport water to such rancher, farmer, or political subdivision by strategies which incorporate, yet are not restricted to, little width crisis water lines and tank trucks, until the point when such time as the Secretary verifies that a satisfactory supply of water is accessible to such rancher, farmer, or political subdivision
(3)
(An) Any understanding went into by the Secretary as per passage (1) of this subsection might require the agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision for whom the well is built to pay to the United States the sensible cost of such development, with enthusiasm, over such number of years, not to surpass thirty, as the Secretary regards fitting. The rate of intrigue should be that rate which the Secretary decides would apply if the sum to be reimbursed was a credit made in accordance with segment 636(b)(2) of title 15.
(B) The Secretary should not develop any well in accordance with this subsection unless the agriculturist, farmer, or political subdivision for whom the well is being built has gotten, before development, all important State and nearby allows.
(4) The Federal offer for the transportation of water in accordance with the passage (2) of this subsection should be 100 for each centum.
(5) For motivations behind this subsection—
(A) the expression "development" incorporates development, remaking, or repair;
(B) the expression "troubled range" implies a region which the Secretary decides because of dry season conditions has an insufficient water supply which is causing or is probably going to cause, a generous risk to the well-being and welfare of the occupants of the region including the danger of harm or loss of property;
(C) the expression "political subdivision" implies a city, town, precinct, region, ward, local, affiliation, or other open body made by or compliant with State law and having purview over the water supply of such open body;
(D) the expression "sensible cost" implies the lesser of (I) the cost to the Secretary of building a well according to this subsection select of the cost of transporting gear utilized as a part of the development of wells, or (ii) the cost to a private business of developing such well;
(E) the expression "Secretary" implies the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers; and
(F) the expression "State" implies a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
(c) Levee proprietors manual
(1) when all is said in done
Not later than 1 year after October 12, 1996, as per part 5 of title 5, the Secretary of the Army should set up a manual portraying the support and upkeep obligations that the Corps of Engineers requires of a non-Federal enthusiasm for arranging for the non-Federal enthusiasm to get Federal help under this segment. The Secretary should give a duplicate of the manual at no cost to each non-Federal intrigue that is qualified to get Federal help under this segment.
(2) Authorization of assignments
There is approved to be appropriated $1,000,000 to complete this subsection.
(3) DefinitionsIn this subsection, the accompanying definitions apply:
(A) Maintenance and upkeep
The expression "support and upkeep" implies all support and general upkeep of a levee performed on a customary and steady premise that do not repair and restoration.
(B) Repair and rehabilitations term "repair and recovery"—
(I) implies the repair or revamping of a levee or other surge control structure, after the structure has been harmed by a surge, to the level of insurance gave by the structure before the surge; however
(ii) does exclude—
(I) any change to the structure; or
(II) repair or modifying portrayed in condition (I) if, in the ordinary course of utilization, the structure turns out to be fundamentally unsound and is never again fit to give the level of security to which the structure was composed.
(d) Increased level of protection leading repair or reclamation work under subsection (a), at the demand of the non-Federal support, the Chief of Engineers may build the level of security over the level of which the framework was composed, or, if the repair or rebuilding incorporates repair or reclamation of a pumping station, increment the limit of a pump, if—
(1) the Chief of Engineers decides the upgrades are in people in general enthusiasm, including the thought of whether—
(A) the expert under this area has been utilized more than once in a similar area;
(B) there is a chance to diminish fundamentally the danger of death toll and property harm; or
(C) there is a chance to diminish add up to life cycle recovery costs for the task; and
(2) the non-Federal support consents to pay the contrast between the cost of repair or rebuilding to the first outline level or unique limit and the cost of accomplishing the larger amount of insurance or limit looked for by the non-Federal support.
(e) Notice
The Secretary might inform and counsel with the non-Federal support in regards to the chance to ask for execution of nonstructural contrasting options to the repair or reclamation of a surge control work under subsection (a).