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title: "33 U.S.C. § 709b"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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chapter_name: "FLOOD CONTROL"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 709b - Flood hazard information
## Text
The Secretary, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service shall take necessary actions, including the posting and distribution of information and the preparation and distribution of educational materials and programs, to ensure that information relating to flood hazard areas is generally available to the public.
(Pub. L. 99662, title IX, § 944, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4200; Pub. L. 109295, title VI, § 612(c), Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1410.)
## Notes
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name “Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency” substituted for “Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency” in text on authority of section 612(c) of Pub. L. 109295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6, Domestic Security. Any reference to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in title VI of Pub. L. 109295 or an amendment by title VI to be considered to refer and apply to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until Mar. 31, 2007, see section 612(f)(2) of Pub. L. 109295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6.
“Secretary” Defined Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2201 of this title.