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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 981 - Creation of Corporation
## Text
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”).
(May 13, 1954, ch. 201, § 1, 68 Stat. 93; Pub. L. 89670, § 8(g)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 943; Pub. L. 116260, div. AA, title V, § 512(a)(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2756.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments2020—Pub. L. 116260 substituted “Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation” for “Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation”. 1966—Pub. L. 89670 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 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 89670 effective Apr. 1, 1967, as prescribed by the President and published in the Federal Register, see section 16(a), formerly § 15(a), of Pub. L. 89670 and Ex. Ord. No. 11340, Mar. 30, 1967, 32 F.R. 5453.
SeparabilitySection 11 of act May 13, 1954, provided: “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter and amending section 846 of Title 31, 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.”
References to Saint Lawrence Seaway Development CorporationPub. L. 116260, div. AA, title V, § 512(b), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2756, provided that: “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.”
Administrator To Report Directly to Secretary of TransportationPub. L. 89670, § 8(g)(2), 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 (Pub. L. 89670), was repealed by Pub. L. 97449, § 7(b), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2444, except for rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before Jan. 12, 1983.
Executive Documents
Executive Order No. 10534 Ex. Ord. No. 10534, June 9, 1954, 19 F.R. 3413, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 10771, June 23, 1958, 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, Nov. 28, 1967, 32 F.R. 16247.