It's private, county, city, state, or some combination and that kind of thing doesn't really get federal oversight. Because federal money wasn't involved and the dams aren't interstate. Some dams are small and don't hold all that much water, but when they burst they flood part of a neighborhood.
Many of them are inspected and found adequate at last inspection. But record floods tend to produce unplanned-for conditions.
Take the Overcreek Dam--one of the first I ran into info for. It was inspected in 2012. Found "deficient" that wasn't because of the dam but the fact that the dam was there as a bridge. The bridge wasn't up to modern codes and was "deficient" but there was no recommendation for replacement because it was still adequate for the conditions it was used under. That was in 2012. The dam belonged to the state highway system.
Another dam that was warned to fail was owned by a power company.
The president warned about federal-controlled infrastructure, and infrastructure that the feds fund directly or indirectly. Full funding wouldn't have helped either of those two dams. The CoE wouldn't have inspected either of those two dams. Environmentalists mostly want the dams gone.
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