§2262 Survey of potential for use of certain facilities as hydroelectric facilities

Summary

When local public officials ask, the Secretary must study whether old industrial sites, millraces, and similar built facilities can be fixed up and used for hydroelectric power. The Secretary must also give technical help to local public agencies, including electric cooperatives, to design projects for sites that have been studied or qualify for study. Non-Federal partners must pay 50 percent of the cost. The law allows $5,000,000 to be appropriated to the Secretary for each fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, through September 30, 1992; those funds remain available until spent.