Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§2285 Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 2285
Summary
Creates an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund and authorizes $35,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986. The fund can pay for mitigation before construction (for example, buying land) to offset fish and wildlife losses from authorized water projects, and the Secretary must repay the fund from the project's first construction appropriations, including planning and design.
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Title 33, §2285
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There is established an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated to such fund $35,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986. Amounts in the fund 11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. shall be available for undertaking, in advance of construction of any water resources project authorized to be constructed by the Secretary, such measures authorized as part of such project, including the acquisition of lands and interests therein, as may be necessary to ensure that project-induced losses to fish and wildlife production and habitat will be mitigated. The Secretary shall reimburse the Fund for any amounts expended under this section for a water resources project from the first appropriations made for construction, including planning and designing, of such project.
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33 U.S.C. § 2285
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73