42 U.S.C. § 1962d–4: Northeastern United…

Summary

The Secretary of the Army must work with federal, state, and local agencies to make long-term water plans for the Northeast under the Water Resources Planning Act (42 U.S.C. 1962 et seq.). The plans can include the United States building, operating, and maintaining major reservoirs in river basins that drain to the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic north of the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Ontario, and the Saint Lawrence River. The plans can also include large water-transfer facilities and major treatment plants. States and local governments must share the costs. The Army will only build and run projects that the plan recommends and that are specifically approved by laws passed after October 27, 1965. Each reservoir counts as part of its river basin’s overall development plan as well as this regional plan.

Title 42, §1962d–4

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

(a)Plans for Federal construction, operation, and maintenance of reservoir system within certain river basins and conveyance and purification facilities through cooperation of Secretary of the Army and government agencies; financial participation of States

Congress hereby recognizes that assuring adequate supplies of water for the great metropolitan centers of the United States has become a problem of such magnitude that the welfare and prosperity of this country require the Federal Government to assist in the solution of water supply problems. Therefore, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies in preparing plans in accordance with the Water Resources Planning Act [42 U.S.C. 1962 et seq.] to meet the long-range water needs of the northeastern United States. This plan may provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance by the United States of (1) a system of major reservoirs to be located within those river basins of the northeastern United States which drain into the Chesapeake Bay, those that drain into the Atlantic Ocean north of the Chesapeake Bay, those that drain into Lake Ontario, and those that drain into the Saint Lawrence River, (2) major conveyance facilities by which water may be exchanged between these river basins to the extent found desirable in the national interest, and (3) major purification facilities. Such plans shall provide for appropriate financial participation by the States, political subdivisions thereof, and other local interests.

(b)Construction, operation, and maintenance of reservoirs and conveyance and purification facilities

The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall construct, operate, and maintain those reservoirs, conveyance facilities, and purification facilities, which are recommended in the plan prepared in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and which are specifically authorized by law enacted after October 27, 1965.

(c)Reservoirs as components of river basin and water supply plans

Each reservoir included in the plan authorized by this section shall be considered as a component of a comprehensive plan for the optimum development of the river basin in which it is situated, as well as a component of the plan established in accordance with this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Water Resources Planning Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 89–80, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 244, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 1962 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1962 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as a part of the Water Resources Planning Act which comprises this chapter.

§1962d–4 Northeastern United States Water Supply