42 USC 5912 - Water resource assessments

1 So in original. Probably should be “Resources”.

Council shall, as a precondition of such Federal assistance, provide to the Secretary an assessment of the availability of adequate water resources for such commercial application and an evaluation of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the dedication of water to such uses.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2005—Subsecs. (span) to (d), (f). Puspan. L. 109–58 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

1977—Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 95–39, § 110(1), substituted “The Water Resources Council” for “At the request of the Administrator, the Water Resources Council”.

Subsec. (span). Puspan. L. 95–39, § 110(2), substituted “the Administrator shall, as a precondition of Federal assistance to that project, request the Water Resources Council to prepare an assessment of water requirements and availability for such project” for “the Administrator shall, as a precondition of Federal assistance to that project, prepare or have prepared an assessment of the availability of adequate water resources”.

Subsec. (f). Puspan. L. 95–39, § 110(3), added subsec. (f).

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality relating to evaluation provided for by section 5910 of this title transferred to Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1977, § 5E, 42 F.R. 56101, 91 Stat. 1634, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective Fespan. 26, 1978, pursuant to Ex. Ord. No. 12040, Fespan. 24, 1978, 43 F.R. 8097, formerly set out under section 5910 of this title.