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title: "33 U.S.C. § 568"
description: "Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY"
section: "568"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 568"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 568 - Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects
## Text
No project shall be considered by any committee of Congress with a view to its adoption, except with a view to a survey, if five years have elapsed since a report upon a survey of such project has been submitted to Congress pursuant to law.
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is from act Sept. 22, 1922, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1918”.