2021 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 36 - Water Resources Development
Subchapter V - General Provisions
Sec. 2330a - Monitoring ecosystem restoration
| 33 U.S.C. § 2330a (2021) |
| §2330a. Monitoring ecosystem restoration |
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(a) In general
In conducting a feasibility study for a project (or a component of a project) for ecosystem restoration, the Secretary shall ensure that the recommended project includes, as an integral part of the project, a plan for monitoring the success of the ecosystem restoration. (b) Monitoring planThe monitoring plan shall— (1) include a description of the monitoring activities to be carried out, the criteria for ecosystem restoration success, and the estimated cost and duration of the monitoring; and (2) specify that the monitoring shall continue until such time as the Secretary determines that the criteria for ecosystem restoration success will be met. For a period of 10 years from completion of construction of a project (or a component of a project) for ecosystem restoration, the Secretary shall consider the cost of carrying out the monitoring as a project cost. If the monitoring plan under subsection (b) requires monitoring beyond the 10-year period, the cost of monitoring shall be a non-Federal responsibility. (d) InclusionsA monitoring plan under subsection (b) shall include a description of— (1) the types and number of restoration activities to be conducted; (2) the physical action to be undertaken to achieve the restoration objectives of the project; (3) the functions and values that will result from the restoration plan; and (4) a contingency plan for taking corrective actions in cases in which monitoring demonstrates that restoration measures are not achieving ecological success in accordance with criteria described in the monitoring plan. The responsibility of a non-Federal interest for operation and maintenance of the nonstructural and nonmechanical elements of a project, or a component of a project, for ecosystem restoration shall cease 10 years after the date on which the Secretary makes a determination of success under subsection (b)(2). (f) Federal obligationsThe Secretary is not responsible for the operation or maintenance of any components of a project with respect to which a non-Federal interest is released from obligations under subsection (e). |
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(Pub. L. 110–114, title II, §2039, Nov. 8, 2007, 121 Stat. 1100; Pub. L. 114–322, title I, §1161, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1668.) |
| EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter. AMENDMENTS2016—Subsecs. (d) to (f). Pub. L. 114–322 added subsecs. (d) to (f). STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES "SECRETARY" DEFINED Secretary means the Secretary of the Army, see section 2 of Pub. L. 110–114, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS |
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| Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 36 - WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT SUBCHAPTER V - GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 2330a - Monitoring ecosystem restoration |
| section 2330a |
| 2021 |
| January 3, 2022 |
| No |
| standard |
| 121 Stat. 1100 130 Stat. 1668 |
| Public Law 110-114, Public Law 114-322 |
