St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Agency overview
Formed	1954 (1954)
Jurisdiction	United States Government
Agency executives	vacant, Administrator Craig H. Middlebrook, Deputy Administrator
Parent department	United States Department of Transportation
Website	https://www.seaway.dot.gov/

St. Lawrence Seaway locks showing country ownership

The St. 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 St. Lawrence Seaway. It operates 2 of the 15 locks of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Erie.

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

The post of administrator has been vacant since 2017.

List of administrators

Administrator	Term started	Term ended	Notes
Lewis G. Castle	1954	1960	Died in office
Martin W. Oettershagen (acting)	June 1960	December 1961
Joseph H. McCann	1962	1969
David W. Oberlin	June 1969	February 1983
James L. Emery	February 1984	February 1991
Stanford Parris	March 1991	1995	Resigned
Gail McDonald	January 1996	March 1998
Albert S. Jacquez	January 1999	December 2005
Collister Johnson, Jr.	September 2006	December 2012
Betty Sutton	August 13, 2013	January 20, 2017

See also

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

External links

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