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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§1962a–3 Review of River Basin Commission Plans; Report to President and Congress

Title 42 › Chapter 19B— WATER RESOURCES PLANNING › Subchapter I— WATER RESOURCES COUNCIL › § 1962a–3

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the Council gets a river basin plan or a change to one, it must review it. The review must focus on how well the plan uses the area's water and nearby land, how it affects other national programs (like farming, cities, energy, industry, recreation, and fish and wildlife), and how it helps meet the Nation’s economic and social goals. The Council must make recommendations it thinks are in the national interest. It must send those recommendations, the plan or change, and any comments from federal agencies, a Governor, an interstate commission, or the U.S. part of an international commission to the President for review and forwarding to Congress with his recommendations about approving federal projects.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1962a–3

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Upon receipt of a plan or revision thereof from any river basin commission under the provisions of section 1962b–3(3) of this title, the Council shall review the plan or revision with special regard to—
(1)the efficacy of such plan or revision in achieving optimum use of the water and related land resources in the area involved;
(2)the effect of the plan on the achievement of other programs for the development of agricultural, urban, energy, industrial, recreational, fish and wildlife, and other resources of the entire Nation; and
(3)the contributions which such plan or revision will make in obtaining the Nation’s economic and social goals.
(a)formulate such recommendations as it deems desirable in the national interest; and
(b)transmit its recommendations, together with the plan or revision of the river basin commission and the views, comments, and recommendations with respect to such plan or revision submitted by any Federal agency, Governor, interstate commission, or United States section of an international commission, to the President for his review and transmittal to the Congress with his recommendations in regard to authorization of Federal projects.

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Executive Documents

Ex. Ord. No. 11747. Delegation of Presidential Functions Ex. Ord. No. 11747, eff. Nov. 7, 1973, 38 F.R. 30993, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 12608, Sept. 9, 1987, 52 F.R. 34617, provided: By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: The Chairman of the Water Resources Council is designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the approval function for standards and procedures vested in the President by section 103 of the Water Resources Planning Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1962a–2).

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1962a–3

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60