Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§2297 Operation and Maintenance on Recreation Lands
Title 33 › Chapter 36— WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter V— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 2297
Summary
The Secretary must not require non‑federal groups to take over operating or maintaining recreational facilities in order to build facilities at any water project.
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Title 33, §2297
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Secretary shall not require, under section 460d of title 16, and the Federal Water Project Recreation Act [16 U.S.C. 460l–12 et seq.], non-Federal interests to assume operation and maintenance of any recreational facility operated by the Secretary at any water resources project as a condition to the construction of new recreational facilities at such project or any other water resources project.
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The Federal Water Project Recreation Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 89–72, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 213, which is classified principally to part C (§ 460l–12 et seq.) of subchapter LXIX of chapter 1 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 460l–12 of Title 16 and Tables.
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33 U.S.C. § 2297
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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