§ 1252a. — Reservoir projects, water storage; modification; storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality benefits in relation to total project benefits.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1252a]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1252a. Reservoir projects, water storage; modification;
storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal
agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions
inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality
benefits in relation to total project benefits
In the case of any reservoir project authorized for construction by
the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, or other Federal agency
when the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines
pursuant to section 1252(b) of this title that any storage in such
project for regulation of streamflow for water quality is not needed, or
is needed in a different amount, such project may be modified
accordingly by the head of the appropriate agency, and any storage no
longer required for water quality may be utilized for other authorized
purposes of the project when, in the opinion of the head of such agency,
such use is justified. Any such modification of a project where the
benefits attributable to water quality are 15 per centum or more but not
greater than 25 per centum of the total project benefits shall take
effect only upon the adoption of resolutions approving such modification
by the appropriate committees of the Senate and House of
Representatives. The provisions of the section shall not apply to any
project where the benefits attributable to water quality exceed 25 per
centum of the total project benefits.
(Pub. L. 93-251, title I, Sec. 65, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 30.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act which comprises this chapter.
