PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Lets the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, work with federal, state, and local agencies to make long-range water plans for the northeastern United States. The plans can include three kinds of big projects: major reservoirs in river basins that drain to the Chesapeake Bay, to the Atlantic north of the Chesapeake, to Lake Ontario, and to the Saint Lawrence River; major pipes and canals to move water between basins when it helps the nation; and large water-purifying plants. The plans must call for fair money sharing by States, local governments, and other local interests. The Secretary must build, operate, and keep up the projects only if they are recommended in the plan and Congress later passes a law after October 27, 1965 that specifically authorizes them. Each reservoir in the plan is treated as part of both its river basin’s development and the larger regional plan.

Title 42, §1962d–4

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

(a)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)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)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