---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2706"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2706"
heading: "New impoundments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2706"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Small Hydroelectric Power Projects"
---

# §2706. New impoundments


Nothing in this chapter authorizes (1) the loan of funds for construction of any new dam or other impoundment, or (2) the simple and expeditious licensing of any such new dam or other impoundment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–617, title IV, § 406, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3156.)