Volume 80 · 870
Public Law 89–618
To authorize a five-year hydrologic study and investigation of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Approved October 4, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize a five-year hydrologic study and investigation of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to make a comprehensive study and investigation of the water resources of the Delmarva Peninsula with a view to determining the availability of fresh water supplies needed to meet the anticipated future water requirements of the Delmarva Peninsula area, and with a view to determining the most effective means from the standpoint of hydrologic feasibility of protecting and developing fresh water sources so as to insure, insofar as practicable, the availability of
Duties of Secretary.
adequate water supplies in the future. In carrying out such study and investigation with respect to the Delmarva Peninsula, the Secretary shall—
appraise the water use, requirements, and trends, and determine the availability of water in the streams and underground sources for the entire peninsula;
determine the depths, thicknesses, and permeabilities, the perennial yield, and the recharge characteristics of major aquifers, and the quality characteristics to be expected from each such major aquifer;
determine with respect to ground water resources the continuity and extent of important water-bearing formations;
determine the yield from stream systems under natural flow conditions and under varying degrees of storage and the amounts and quality of waters available from such systems during drought, flood, and intermediate conditions;
determine whether sea water has moved inland into heavily pumped coastal aquifers;
give special consideration to conditions which may invite the invasion of sea water into fresh-water supplies;
compile and make available to appropriate State and local officials any results of this study and investigation that would be appropriate for their use in long-range planning, development, and management of water supplies;
cooperate with State and local agencies for the purpose of using any information and data available to carry out the purposes of this study; and
consider such other matters as the Secretary may deem appropriate to the study and investigation herein authorized.
Sec. 2.
During the course of the study and investigation authorized by this Act, the Secretary may submit to the President for transmission to the Congress such interim reports as the Secretary may consider desirable. The Secretary shall submit a final report to the President for transmission to the Congress not more than six years after the date of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 3.
The Secretary is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act, and each department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics, to the Secretary upon his or his designee’s request.
Sec. 4.
In carrying out the study and investigation authorized by this
Cooperation with other agencies.
Act, the Secretary is authorized to cooperate with other Federal, State, and local agencies now engaged in comprehensive planning for water resource use and development in the Delmarva Peninsula area by making available to those agencies his findings and to cooperate with those agencies in the Northeastern United States Water Supply Study as authorized by the Act of October 27, 1965 (79 Stat. 1073).
Appropriation.
Sec. 5.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall prevent the expenditure of other funds appropriated to the Geological Survey for studies and activities performed under its general authority.
Approved October 4, 1966.