Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60

§1252a Reservoir Projects, Water Storage; Modification; Storage for Other Than for Water Quality, Opinion of Federal Agency, Committee Resolutions of Approval; Provisions Inapplicable to Projects with Certain Prescribed Water Quality Benefits in Relation to Total Project Benefits

Title 33 › Chapter 26— WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter I— RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS › § 1252a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the EPA administrator finds that reservoir storage set aside for water-quality flow control is not needed or should be a different amount, the agency running the project can change the project and use the freed storage for other allowed purposes if its leader agrees. If water-quality benefits are 15%–25% of total project benefits, the change only takes effect after the House and Senate committees adopt resolutions approving it. If water-quality benefits exceed 25%, these rules do not apply.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1252a

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In the case of any reservoir project authorized for construction by the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, or other Federal agency when the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines pursuant to section 1252(b) of this title that any storage in such project for regulation of streamflow for water quality is not needed, or is needed in a different amount, such project may be modified accordingly by the head of the appropriate agency, and any storage no longer required for water quality may be utilized for other authorized purposes of the project when, in the opinion of the head of such agency, such use is justified. Any such modification of a project where the benefits attributable to water quality are 15 per centum or more but not greater than 25 per centum of the total project benefits shall take effect only upon the adoption of resolutions approving such modification by the appropriate committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. The provisions of the section shall not apply to any project where the benefits attributable to water quality exceed 25 per centum of the total project benefits.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1252a

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60