Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-110

§2262 Survey of Potential for Use of Certain Facilities as Hydroelectric Facilities

Title 33 › CHAPTER 36 — WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER IV — WATER RESOURCES STUDIES › § 2262

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must, when local public officials ask, study how old industrial sites, millraces, and similar existing facilities could be fixed up 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 surveyed or qualify for a survey. Non‑Federal partners must pay 50 percent of the cost. Congress authorized $5,000,000 for the Secretary for each fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, through September 30, 1992; the money remains available until expended.

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Title 33, §2262

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(a)Survey authority

The Secretary shall, upon the request of local public officials, survey the potential and methods for rehabilitating former industrial sites, millraces, and similar types of facilities already constructed for use as hydroelectric facilities. The Secretary shall, upon request, provide technical assistance to local public agencies, including electric cooperatives, in designing projects to rehabilitate sites that have been surveyed, or are qualified for such survey, under this section. The non-Federal share of the cost of carrying out this section shall be 50 percent.

(b)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary, to implement this section, the sum of $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1988, through September 30, 1992, such sums to remain available until expended.

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 2262

Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110