16 U.S.C. § 1006 — Cooperative programs

Page 1596 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 1006 trol of water resources at minimum cost. Whenever ap- proximately equivalent benefits can be obtained from alternative works of improvement, or combinations of improvements, with approximately the same cost the alternative or combination lease costly to the Federal Government shall be given preferential consideration. In case benefits are produced jointly by more than one work of improvement, or in case complementary rela- tionships exist between the projects and plans of the several agencies, the benefits claimed in justification of a system of improvements shall not include any du- plication or compounding of benefits. SEC. 7. Basic data. In the utilization of existing basic physical and economic data, and in the acquisition of additional basic data required for planning, design, construction, operation and evaluation of works of im- provement authorized under the Act [this chapter], the Department of Agriculture shall be assisted by the principal basic-data collection agencies, including the Geological Survey in the Department of the Interior and the Weather Bureau [now the National Weather Service] in the Department of Commerce. The basic- data collection agencies shall assist and cooperate with the Department of Agriculture with respect to the fol- lowing: (a) Provision of pertinent information in the prelimi- nary planning of works of improvement. (b) Collaboration in planning programs of hydrologic- data collection in project areas, in the selection of sta- tion sites and installation of equipment for collecting hydrologic data, and in the collection of such data. (c) Collaboration in the analysis and interpretation of hydrologic data collected specifically for projects initi- ated under the Act, and of relevant data which may contribute to an analysis of the effects of such projects. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. EX. ORD. NO. 10654. DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS TO DIRECTOR OF BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Ex. Ord. No. 10654, Jan. 20, 1956, 21 F.R. 511, provided: The functions vested in the President by the third proviso of section 5 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (68 Stat. 667) [this section], relat- ing to the transmittal to the Congress of copies of plans for certain works of improvement and the jus- tifications therefor, are hereby delegated to the Direc- tor of the Bureau of the Budget. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. [Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget, referred to in Ex. Ord. No. 10654, trans- ferred to President by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organiza- tion and Employees. Section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970 redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget and Director of Bureau of the Budget as Director of Office of Management and Budg- et.] § 1006. Cooperative programs The Secretary is authorized in cooperation with other Federal and with States and local agencies to make investigations and surveys of the watershed of rivers and other waterways as a basis for the development of coordinated pro- grams. In areas where the programs of the Sec- retary of Agriculture may affect public or other lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior is au- thorized to cooperate with the Secretary of Ag- riculture in the planning and development of works or programs for such lands. (Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, § 6, 68 Stat. 668.) Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Sec- retary or other official in Department of Agriculture under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Fed- eral Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of En- ergy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 1002 of this title. § 1006a. Loans or advancements for financing local share of costs; repayment; interest; maximum amount The Secretary is authorized to make loans or advancements (a) to local organizations to fi- nance the local share of costs of carrying out works of improvement provided for in this chap- ter, and (b) to State and local agencies to fi- nance the local share of costs of carrying out works of improvement (as defined in section 1002 of this title) in connection with the eleven wa- tershed improvement programs authorized by section 13 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), as amended and supplemented: Pro- vided, That the works of improvement in con- nection with said eleven watershed improve- ment programs shall be integral parts of water- shed or subwatershed work plans agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the concerned State and local agencies. A loan or advance under this section shall be made under a con- tract or agreement that provides, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate, for the repayment of the loan or ad- vance in not more than 50 years from the date when the principal benefits of the works of im- provement first become available, with interest at a rate not to exceed the current market yield for outstanding municipal obligations with re- maining periods to maturity comparable to the average maturity for the loan, adjusted to the nearest 1⁄8 of 1 percent. With respect to any sin- gle plan for works of improvement, the amount of any such loan or advancement shall not ex- ceed $10,000,000. (Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, § 8, as added Aug. 7, 1956, ch. 1027, § 1(g), 70 Stat. 1090; amended Pub. L. 86–468, § 1, May 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 131; Pub. L. 95–113, title XV, § 1508, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 1022; Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 791(b), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1151.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 13 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), as amended and supplemented, referred to in text, is section 13 of act Dec. 22, 1944, ch. 665, 58 Stat. 887, which was not classified to the Code. AMENDMENTS 1996—Pub. L. 104–127 added second sentence and struck out former second sentence which read as fol- lows: ‘‘Such loans or advancements shall be made under contracts or agreements which will provide, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appro- priate, for the repayment thereof in not more than fifty years from the date when the principal benefits of the works of improvement first become available, with in- terest at the average rate, as determined by the Sec- retary of the Treasury, payable by the Treasury upon