33 USC § 2262 - Survey of potential for use of certain facilities as hydroelectric facilities

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s2262"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 2262 - Survey of potential for use of certain facilities as hydroelectric facilities"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "2262"
section_name: "Survey of potential for use of certain facilities as hydroelectric facilities"
chapter_number: 36
chapter_name: "WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "WATER RESOURCES STUDIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 99–662, title VII, § 703, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4156.)"
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# § 2262. Survey of potential for use of certain facilities as hydroelectric facilities

**(a)** **Survey authority** The Secretary shall, upon the request of local public officials, survey the potential and methods for rehabilitating former industrial sites, millraces, and similar types of facilities already constructed for use as hydroelectric facilities. The Secretary shall, upon request, provide technical assistance to local public agencies, including electric cooperatives, in designing projects to rehabilitate sites that have been surveyed, or are qualified for such survey, under this section. The non-Federal share of the cost of carrying out this section shall be 50 percent.

**(b)** **Authorization of appropriations** September 30, 1988September 30, 1992

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary, to implement this section, the sum of $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending , through , such sums to remain available until expended.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 99–662, title VII, § 703, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4156.)