16 U.S.C. § 460l–20 — Construction of projects under certain laws with allocations to recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement exceeding allocations to other functions unauthorized; exception
submitted 61 years ago by Pub. L. 89-72 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 112 words · no verdicts yet
This law blocks water projects where recreation and wildlife benefits outweigh irrigation, power, and flood control. It applies to projects under federal reclamation law or river and harbor laws. Fish-enhancement and migratory-bird projects are exempt if their other purposes still pay for themselves.
Nothing in this part allows building a project* under federal reclamation law, or under any Rivers and Harbors or Flood Control Act, if the combined value assigned to recreation and fish-and-wildlife enhancement is bigger than the combined value assigned to irrigation, hydroelectric power, water supply, navigation, and flood control. There is one exception: this rule does not apply to a project built to help anadromous fish (like salmon that migrate to the ocean and back) or shrimp, or to conserve treaty-protected migratory birds — as long as each of that project's other purposes has, by itself, a favorable benefit-to-cost ratio.
Nothing contained in this part shall be taken to authorize or to sanction the construction under the Federal reclamation laws or under any Rivers and Harbors or Flood Control Act of any project* in which the sum of the allocations to recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement exceeds the sum of the allocations to irrigation, hydroelectric power, municipal, domestic and industrial water supply, navigation, and flood control, except that this section shall not apply to any such project for the enhancement of anadromous fisheries, shrimp, or for the conservation of migratory birds protected by treaty, when each of the other functions of such a project has, of itself, a favorable benefit-cost ratio.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–72, § 9, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 217.)
- 1965Enacted · Pub. L. 89-72 · 79 Stat. 217
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-72 on 1965-07-09.
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