Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development
§ 2284. Benefits and costs attributable to environmental measures
Statutory text
In the evaluation by the Secretary of benefits and costs of a water resources project, the benefits attributable to measures included in a project for the purpose of environmental quality, including improvement of the environment and fish and wildlife enhancement, shall be deemed to be at least equal to the costs of such measures.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 99–662 title IX § 907 · 100 Stat. 4082
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2284
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 907, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4188.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 907, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4188.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 907. BENEFITS AND COSTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES. Fish and fishing. Wildlife. In the evaluation by the Secretary of benefits and costs of a water resources project, the benefits attributable to measures included in a project for the purpose of environmental quality, including improvement of the environment and fish and wildlife enhancement, shall be deemed to be at least equal to the costs of such measures.
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