Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Agency overview
Formed	1954 (1954)
Jurisdiction	United States Government
Parent department	United States Department of Transportation

St. Lawrence Seaway locks showing country ownership

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) is the agency of the United States Department of Transportation that operates and maintains the U.S.-owned and operated facilities of the joint United States-Canadian Saint Lawrence Seaway. It operates 2 of the 15 locks of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Erie.

Its Canadian counterpart is the Saint Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, a non-profit corporation under Canadian law.

The current Administrator is Betty Sutton, a former Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio.

List of Administrators

1. Lewis G. Castle, 1954–1960, died in office
2. Martin W. Oettershagen, acting, June 1960 – December 1961
3. Joseph H. McCann, 1962–1969
4. David W. Oberlin, June 1969 – February 1983
5. James L. Emery, February 1984 – February 1991
6. Stanford Parris, March 1991 – 1995, resigned
7. Gail C. McDonald, January 1996 – March 1998
8. Albert S. Jacquez, Januar 1999-December 2005
9. Collister Johnson, Jr., September 2006-December 2012
10. Betty Sutton, 2013-2017

See also

• Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations
• List of navigation authorities in the United States

External links

• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation in the Federal Register