42 U.S.C. § 1962–1 — Effect on existing laws
submitted 61 years ago by Pub. L. 89-80 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 290 words · no verdicts yet
This chapter does not expand or reduce Federal or State water-resources authority, change existing compacts or agencies, or generally change Federal officials’ duties. It also preserves specified international bodies and bars entities under the chapter from recommending transfers of water between certain river basins.
Nothing in this chapter may be read to expand or reduce Federal or State* jurisdiction, responsibility, or rights concerning water-resources planning, development, or control. It does not displace, replace, limit, or change an interstate compact or the jurisdiction or responsibility of a legally established joint or common agency of States, or of States and the Federal Government. It does not limit Congress’s authority to authorize and fund projects. It does not change a Federal official’s authority or responsibility except as needed to prepare and review comprehensive regional or river-basin plans and formulate and evaluate Federal water and related-land projects. It does not replace, change, or repeal existing laws applying to Federal agencies that develop or help develop water and related land resources or exercise related licensing or regulatory functions, except as needed to carry out this chapter. It does not affect the jurisdiction, powers, or prerogatives of the International Joint Commission, the Columbia River Basin Treaty bodies named in the section, or the International Boundary and Water Commission. It does not authorize an entity under this chapter to study, plan, or recommend transferring water between areas under more than one river-basin commission or an entity performing that function.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed—
to expand or diminish either Federal or State* jurisdiction, responsibility, or rights in the field of water resources planning, development, or control; nor to displace, supersede, limit or modify any interstate compact or the jurisdiction or responsibility of any legally established joint or common agency of two or more States, or of two or more States and the Federal Government; nor to limit the authority of Congress to authorize and fund projects;
to change or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of any Federal official in the discharge of the duties of his office except as required to carry out the provisions of this chapter with respect to the preparation and review of comprehensive regional or river basin plans and the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects;
as superseding, modifying, or repealing existing laws applicable to the various Federal agencies which are authorized to develop or participate in the development of water and related land resources or to exercise licensing or regulatory functions in relation thereto, except as required to carry out the provisions of this chapter; nor to affect the jurisdiction, powers, or prerogatives of the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, the Permanent Engineering Board and the United States Operating Entity or Entities established pursuant to the Columbia River Basin Treaty, signed at Washington, January 17, 1961, or the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico;
as authorizing any entity established or acting under the provisions hereof to study, plan, or recommend the transfer of waters between areas under the jurisdiction of more than one river basin commission or entity performing the function of a river basin commission.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–80, § 3, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 244.)
- 1965Enacted · Pub. L. 89-80 · 79 Stat. 244
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