§2320 Protection of recreational and commercial uses

Summary

Require the Secretary to think about how any water project will affect nearby recreational and commercial activities when planning it. When repairs, upgrades, or rebuilding change a project’s structures, the Secretary must, as much as possible, avoid hurting recreational uses that were already in place. If a change does harm those uses, the Secretary must try to restore them or provide comparable alternatives. There is a $2,000,000 limit per fiscal year for doing those restorations. The repair-and-restore rules only apply to work where physical construction starts after May 1, 1988, and they do not apply if the work is needed to stop operating the project. The repair-and-restore rule ends after the last day of the five-year period beginning on November 28, 1990, but restorations already started by that day may be finished. Costs for these recreation actions are charged to recreation and paid by the recreation beneficiaries.