L. 74–738, (FCA 1936) was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 22 June 1936.
It is one of a number of Flood Control Acts passed on a regular basis by the United States Congress.
Since 1936, Congress has authorized the Corps of Engineers to construct hundreds of miles of levees, flood walls, and channel improvements and approximately 375 major reservoirs.
These remarkable engineering projects today comprise one of the largest single additions to the nation's physical plant -rivaled only by the highway system.
They have saved billions of dollars in property damage and protected hundreds of thousands of people from anxiety, injury, and death.