---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 2.19"
title: "18"
number: "2.19"
heading: "State and Federal comprehensive plans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/2.19"
---

# §2.19. State and Federal comprehensive plans.

- (a) In determining whether the proposed hydroelectric project is best adapted to a comprehensive plan under section (10)(a)(1) of the Federal Power Act for improving or developing a waterway, the Commission will consider the extent to which the project is consistent with a comprehensive plan (where one exists) for improving, developing, or conserving a waterway or waterways affected by the project that is prepared by:
  - (1) An agency established pursuant to Federal law that has the authority to prepare such a plan, or
  - (2) A state agency, of the state in which the facility is or will be located, authorized to conduct such planning pursuant to state law.
- (b) The Commission will treat as a state or Federal comprehensive plan a plan that:
  - (1) Is a comprehensive study of one or more of the beneficial uses of a waterway or waterways;
  - (2) Includes a description of the standards applied, the data relied upon, and the methodology used in preparing the plan; and
  - (3) **Is filed with the Secretary of the Commission.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Order 481-A, 53 FR 15804, May 4, 1988]

### Authority

Authority: Sections 2.2 through 2.13, issued under sec. 309, 49 Stat. 858; 16 U.S.C. 825h, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 601; 15 U.S.C. 717-717z, 3301-3432; 16 U.S.C. 792-828c, 2601-2645; 42 U.S.C. 4321-4370h, 7101-7352.

### Amendments

[Order 481-A, 53 FR 15804, May 4, 1988]